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freedom Robot vacuum cleaner escapes motel Rob Beschizza
ameca Watch it, bub. This uncanny robot does not like being booped on the nose Carla Sinclair
tapas Behold the Lego tapas factory Rob Beschizza
microscale Tiny liquid robots swim around powered by "food" in the water instead of electricity David Pescovitz
special delivery Traffic jam of robot couriers caused by winter weather Thom Dunn
global warfare UN wants to ban killer robots but US won't comply Thom Dunn
Now do Goodbye Horses Boston Dynamics robot moves like Jagger Rob Beschizza
jewish Watch "The Golem" (1920) rescored by members of the Flaming Lips, Los Lobos, Threshing Floor, plus commentary by occult, Jewish, and tech big thinkers David Pescovitz
robo boats A robot tugboat just made a successful 1000-mile journey overseas Thom Dunn
tanks US Army to run battle simulations between groups of robotic tanks David Pescovitz
wearbles Wearable robotic exoskeleton that transforms into wheeled scooter David Pescovitz
its alive An eight-foot-long handwriting robot Clive Thompson
biomimicry Flying microchip with wings to monitor air pollution and airborne diseases David Pescovitz
singapore Singapore deploys autonomous robots to catch smokers and other "undesirable social behaviors" Mark Frauenfelder
robo The MLB is testing out Robot Umpires to optimize baseball. Thom Dunn
microrobots The tiny robeetle earned Guinness Record as world's smallest crawling robot David Pescovitz
biomechanics Watch these squirrels do parkour… for science! David Pescovitz
parkour Watch these humanoid robots do parkour (and sometimes fail gloriously!) David Pescovitz
automation "If you wanna see the inside of it I'll show to you." Worker interviewed about office robot (1979) Popkin
wombat Watch a wombat-sized research robot burrow into marsupial holes Thom Dunn