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A robot at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona made custom smartphone case designs from Swarovski crystals. The cases were awarded to Galaxy Nexus owners as part of a Google promotion. The process took about eight minutes.

This is amazing - AT&T today released this 1963 film created for The Bell System by Muppet creator Jim Henson, featuring a robot that talks about how great machines are compared to human beings.

I still have nightmares from the '80s film "Runaway", in which bad-guy Gene Simmons (minus the Kiss makeup) stalks good-guy cop Tom Selleck with a slew of spider-robots that can kill with their pincer arms.

Harvard scientists helping out with the creation of robots that will destroy us all someday.

While you're digesting your Thanksgiving dinner and watching the latest football games, do some more multi-tasking and check out this video from Peter Fankhauser during a recent TEDtalk (at TEDGlobal), in which he demonstrates Rezero, a robot that can balance itself on a ball.

Just when I thought I lost all hope in humanity's battle against the robots, out comes a video that restores my faith in the species. Yes, young David Calvo provides us with this video of himself not only solving a Rubik's Cube with one hand, but juggling two solved cubes at the same time.