Watch Boston Dynamics' Robot Run Outside Oh God They're Coming For Us
Possible cause of the singularity Boston Dynamics is secretive about upcoming projects, but new footage shows their robots in action—and the results are highly unsettling.
Turns Out The Robot Overlords Movie Is Aptly Titled
Behold the Robot Overlords trailer starring Gillian Anderson and Ben Kingsley. Wait, what?
Robots evolve sharing, altruism, might not be plotting our downfall
Usually when we hear about robots learning a new skill through evolutionary programming, it makes us fear for the coming robopocalypse. But just this once it appears they may be learning something friendly, too. A program in Switzerland has put simple robots through hundreds of generations of simulated evolution, and…
Breakthrough in understanding primate vision could help create robots who recognize you
We know that a dog is a dog, regardless of whether it's sitting, running, or trying to comprehend escalators. But one of the tricky parts of designing an artificial vision system for a computer is getting it to recognize that an object is the same, regardless of perspective, position, ambient lighting, and a whole…
Biobots Borrow Design from Millions of Years of Evolution
When designing our future robot overlords, scientists are borrowing ideas that have withstood the test of time over millions of years of evolution (or seven days of creation, depending on your point of view). This video from New Scientist shows how animals are inspiring robotics design, as evidenced by these robotic…
Metal Storm Robot Weapon Fills the Air With Lead, Shooting Anything That Moves
Here's a fearsome weapon from Australia that's not brand new but is now being considered for deployment by the US military: a kick-ass machine gun called Metal Storm. It's an Area Denial Weapon System (ADWS) that literally fills the air with lead without the need of a human operator.
