Robots

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)

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, 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)

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 [...]

Robovie mR2 iPod Touch Powered Robot (video)

Looking for new ways to interact with your music? Yeah, me either. But the Robovie mR2 looks cool anyway. The toy robot is controlled by your iPod touch, which docks in its chest. You’ll then be [...]

Android…Controls Android?

That’s not a typo, folks, that’s a strange little bit of news that’ll make your day just a little more surreal. I try to do that sort of thing wherever possible. If you’ve got $3000, a [...]

Will Punxsutawney Phil Be Next To Lose His Job To A Machine?

Well, folks, it’s almost Groundhog Day again, and you know what that means. No, the post office doesn’t get yet another screwball holiday off to screw up your Netflix queue–it means that once again, Punxsutawney Phil [...]

The Da Vinci Robot Si HD Is A Surgery Machine…Literally.

In Calgary, robots do surgery. That’s the surprise of the day from the folks up in Canada as Rockyview General Hospital is the first hospital in Canada to lay hands on a da Vinci Robot Si [...]

Kiva Systems Mobile Drive Units Take Jobs From Humans

Anyone else remember those few episodes of South Park featuring the local boys who lost their jobs to one thing or another? You know, where they end up getting together on camera shrieking incoherently about how [...]

ROXXXY, The First Ever Robot Girlfriend

Society as we know it is now officially doomed. Please find your exits located to the left and right of the auditorium and drive safely. You might wonder what inspired my greatest hyperbole to date…well, when [...]

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