I dislike picking up my dog's droppings almost as much as stepping in them. However, a fleet of these automated scoopers could one day safeguard my shoe soles without reducing me to picking up poop.

The kids up at MIT have cooked up a robot that can bake chocolate cookies for them. They've named it PR2 and filmed it mixing the necessary ingredients with considerable efficiency.

Since being hacked a few weeks back, there's nearly been a notable re-appropriation of Microsoft's gesture-based Kinect hardware every day. Today is no exception: a robotics firm called Willow Garage can now control a humanoid robot using Kinect.

The creators of the PR2 robot are finally done making it fold their laundry. Now they've finally put it to some good, honest labor: billiards. It's just like The Color of Money, except Paul Newman is a task-oriented robot.

Even if the PR2 is aware that other robots are out there climbing, drawing, and saving lives while it's stuck at home folding towels, it doesn't let it on. It just goes about its business, folding away, slowly but surely.