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Creepy robot can climb up your leg

Posted May 24, 2012 - 10:12 am

Is that a robot climbing up your leg or are you just happy to see me? It is a robot! Ahhh!
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Meet a one-armed, two-ball-juggling robot

Posted May 16, 2012 - 4:59 pm

Sure, this robot can juggle balls, but what will really impress me is when it moves to flaming torches or chainsaws.
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Japanese invent robot that won't fall when you kick it

Posted May 11, 2012 - 9:38 am

Oh, I get it - the Japanese are training their robots to be Kung Fu fighters.
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How to survive when the robots attack

Posted May 8, 2012 - 12:15 pm

We all know the real danger isn't from zombies or vampires, but from intelligent, self-aware robots. Are you prepared to fight back?
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Humans beware: sneaker-wearing robots can now climb stairs

Posted April 12, 2012 - 10:15 am

Are you ready for the DARPA Robotics Challenge? Queue up the Rocky III training montage music.
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You had me at Sushi-making Robots

Posted April 9, 2012 - 5:40 pm

These sushi-making robots will feed us all.
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Robot band will entertain the Machines after they take over

Posted April 6, 2012 - 9:16 am

Robot band can play The Beatles. OK, that's cool. Now play "Freebird"!
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Creepy robot climbs over rocks, logs to hunt you down

Posted March 28, 2012 - 11:08 am

Another robot video shows the amazing tenacity of robots to get over obstacles.
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The 30-foot jumping robot: real or fake?

Posted March 28, 2012 - 9:55 am

Advice for anyone making an amazing video: Don't use cuts or edits, or people may think it's fake.
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The bottom of the ocean is SO BORING

Posted March 27, 2012 - 10:29 am

Movie director James Cameron is back from his Mariana Trench dive; he still hasn't found the Oscar he dropped down there...
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Robot barber creepier than Sweeney Todd

Posted March 22, 2012 - 10:53 am

Just a little off the top, if you please, Mr. Roboto.
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In the future, robot cheetahs will chase us down for capture

Posted March 6, 2012 - 10:25 am

Robot that mimics the patterns of a cheetah breaks the robot land-speed record. So now robots and cheetahs can outrun us.
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Creepy spider robot an RC hobbyist dream

Posted February 17, 2012 - 11:51 am

When you combine robots with spiders, creepiness ensues.
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Sundance film about a man and robot gets early buzz

Posted January 23, 2012 - 12:03 pm

A film that's getting some significant buzz at the Sundance Film Festival is "Robot and Frank", a futuristic movie about a cranky old man and a caretaker robot.
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Japanese spider robot can pick up 'prey' and carry them away

Posted December 14, 2011 - 11:14 am

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.
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Robots get cuter, smarter and creepier

Posted December 1, 2011 - 4:10 pm

Two new robots that are learning lots of new things, like how to identify objects and themselves.
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Squishy robot wiggles into tight spaces

Posted November 29, 2011 - 3:33 pm

Harvard scientists helping out with the creation of robots that will destroy us all someday.
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Ladder-climbing robots means there's fewer places to hide

Posted November 28, 2011 - 1:07 pm

Whenever I joke about robots gaining more and more abilities in their eventual plan to destroy humanity, there's always the feeling that as long as the robots can't climb stairs, then humans can likely escape if things go wrong.
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'Terminator' contacts could be in our future

Posted November 23, 2011 - 2:08 pm

Ever wished you could have the same heads-up, inside your eyelids display Ahnuld did in the Terminator movies? Researchers are taking the first steps now.
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More proof they're building Terminators

Posted November 7, 2011 - 12:21 pm

Sometimes I feel like Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2 (no, get your mind out of the gutter). I mean, she keeps warning people about the Terminators that are coming from the future, yet most of humanity just looks at her like she's weird, or they lock her up in an asylum.
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When the robots take over, they'll be able to applaud

Posted October 26, 2011 - 10:21 am

These robotic arms are happy and they know it, because they can clap their hands. In this video, we see a demonstration of "Ondz" robotic clappers, developed by Masato Takahashi, a researcher at Keio University.
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Robot Arm Brings us One Step Closer to Terminators

Posted October 4, 2011 - 10:34 am

At the CEATEC show in Japan, Cyberdyne Inc. showed off its prototype robotic arm, which it says will help the weak, disabled and elderly. But as any science-fiction fan knows, this is the first step towards building the Terminator robots that will destroy us all.
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