Muscular dystrophy gives Nick Torrance added chall...  ...so other devices can be made.Both plan to pursue robotics

Brent Hoff and Alex Reben's BlabDroids roll up to humans and ask to interview them. They ask questions like, "What's the worst thing you have ever done?" The robots record the answers for their documentary about the spec...

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sRlFQLwg3w](Video Link)We still have a lot of work to do before we can play BattleTech in real life, but we're making solid progress. The Mantis is an all-terrain hexapod. This 2-tonne ve...

From kissing machines to augmented reality sweethearts, Japan leads the way in simulated relationships. That nation's most recent contribution to the field is a coat that hugs you and says sweet nothings in a female voic...

[youtube AWJJnQybZlk](Video Link)In 1940, at the a...  ...tion author Isaac Asimov coined the Three Laws of Robotics . He later modified and added an additional law to...

[youtube kmeJvkN4ntI](Video Link)When robots begin taking over our memes, they've gone too far. This presumptuous robot named CHARLI has been taught by turncoat human programmers to dance Gangam Style. Psy, as champion o...

[youtube chPanW0QWhA](Video Link) It's amazing what robots can do these days--punching humans, stabbing meat, using human flesh as fuel. Truly, the future will be filled with technological marvels that will make our live...

(YouTube Link) YouTube user kss5095 decided to get creative and show his love of video games at the same time with his final project for Advanced Mechatronics at Penn State, so he built a fully functioning turret like y...

The octopus with its soft and flexible tentacles i...  ...os of this mechanical calamari at IEEE Spectrum's robotics blog. Link -via Not Exactly Rocket Science

(Video Link) Until I saw this video, I was about 90% certain that my own youngling is completely human and not a participant in the robot conspiracy to overthrow and enslave the human race. But Hollywood effects art...