Robots are a fact of life. Soon they will kill us. We'd like to document the coming apocalypse

Carnegie Mellon robot uses arms, location and more to discover objects

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A robot can have a hard time discovering objects in its surroundings when it has just computer vision. But by using all of the information: ...

Cheetah-Cub Quadruped Robot Learns New Tricks

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Cheetah-Cub is a quadruped developed at the Biorobotics lab at the EPFL, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. To put Cheetah-Cub in motion, ...

Robot Jumps 30 Times Its Own Height

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This robot can jumped 30 times it's own height, by using explosions in its legs. This three-legged soft robot has tubes that are filled with ...

Moth Drives Robot Vehicle

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Moths are harmless. They chew holes in your sweaters, but that's about it. Now, things are about to change. Scientists from the University of Tokyo ...

Diego-san appears on video for the first time

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A new android infant is among us thanks to the University of California San Diego's Machine Perception Lab. The lab received funding from the National ...

Larry the Vomiting Robot

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You've probably heard about the norovirus. You don't want to get sick with this virus. It causes severe diarrhea and vomiting in humans and it ...

Squirrels Teach Robots To Lie

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Squirrels and robots working together? What fresh new hell is this? Will this spawn a world where robots kill us, hide our bodies in the ...

Bird-Brain Robot Flies Outdoors, Doesn’t Crash Into Trees

Bird-Brain Robot Fli...

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For the most part, birds fly around all over the place and don't crash into things. Not counting squeaky clean bay windows of course. So, ...

Robo-Sharks used to track the movement and behavior of sharks

Robo-Sharks used to ...

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Sharks remain mysterious even today. No one really knows how great white sharks mate, where they give birth or even why they sometimes attack humans. ...

Nexi robot tracks body language

Nexi robot tracks bo...

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You can learn alot from body language, but it's an art that needs to be practiced. Not everyone can do it. So it would be ...

STARTLE Biologically-inspired threat monitoring system

STARTLE Biologically...

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Emotional robots? Sure, the term conjures up images of out of control humanoid robots going on a rampage, but it may not be that bad. ...

DARPA’s silicone robot cloaks itself

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Those folks at DARPA aren't going to be happy until robots everywhere are cloaked and in position to take over the world. Case in point, ...