Robots

DARPA’s LittleDog Robot Will Haunt Your Dreams (video)

DARPA’s LittleDog Robot Will Haunt Your Dreams (video)

Don’t watch this video before you go to bed — LittleDog is a DARPA project centered on building a robot that can traverse rough terrain, bringing supplies to soldiers and doing other dangerous things. DARPA’s created [...]

Very Funny Ads: Chevrolet Robot (video)

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Doctors Successfully Perform First Hearty Surgery With Remote-controlled Robot

Doctors Successfully Perform First Hearty Surgery With Remote-controlled Robot

Here’s the future of medicine, folks — you’ll have surgery by a doctor whose still at home in his pajamas. A team at Leicester’s Glenfield Hospital lead by consultant cardiologist Andre Ng did the a remote [...]

Gsou’s Robotic Webcam Automatically Un/Covers The Lens To Stop Snoops

Gsou’s Robotic Webcam Automatically Un/Covers The Lens To Stop Snoops

Sure, you can use tape to cover your webcam in the hopes that someone doesn’t hack your computer and watch you as you watch porn, but that’s just ghetto.  The Gsou’s webcam automatically lowers his arms [...]

Roboplow: Robotic Snow Shoveling (video)

Roboplow: Robotic Snow Shoveling (video)

I’ve said it many times before and I’ll say it again: living in a cold climate totally sucks.  Unless of course you like to ski and then it might have its advantageous.  But you know what [...]

Flesh Light Looking Robot Is For The Hearing Impaired

Flesh Light Looking Robot Is For The Hearing Impaired

Creepy probably best describes this weird looking robot, but as Popsci discovered this funky looking contraption is more than a workshop project.  Built at Japan’s Kagawa University, the almost flesh light looking contraption was built to [...]

Fire Scout UAV Captures Drug Runner Running During Trial Run (video)

Fire Scout UAV Captures Drug Runner Running During Trial Run (video)

Let’s put this under “Awesome spy stuff in real life” — the US Navy’s ‘Fire Scout’, an unmanned helicopter, was doing a trial run when it spotted a speedboat doing something…fishy (cause it was in the [...]

Snipers Use Segways For Moving Target Practice (video)

Snipers Use Segways For Moving Target Practice (video)

Here’s the future folks, and it is terrifying — the army now has Segway Robots. Well, at least they’re used for good. Marathon Robotics, an Australian company, took the vehicles and transformed them into human-like robots [...]

Dean Kamen’s Luke Arm Shakes Its Way On To The Colbert Show (video)

Dean Kamen’s Luke Arm Shakes Its Way On To The Colbert Show (video)

Dean Kamen, an inventor and tech enthusiast, was on The Colbert Report last night to show off his latest invention: a super cool robotic arm. The Luke Arm (a Star Wars reference, of course) is from [...]

Japanese Robot Screams If She Is Poked Too Hard (video)

Japanese Robot Screams If She Is Poked Too Hard (video)

Let’s file this under “cool but kinda creepy”: Hanako is a Japanese-built robot created by three universities and a robotics manufacturer whose purpose is for training dentists. Her mouth is filled with sensors that are designed [...]