Robots

How to Build a Low-Budget Roomba

If you hate vacuuming as much as you hate spending money, it turns out you don’t need to spend hundreds of dollars on an autonomous robotic vacuum like the Roomba. With some scavenged electronics and a cheap handheld vac, you can just build your own. CircuitDigest breaks down everything you’ll need to complete this build,…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

A Pair of Space Rovers Embark on an Unexpectedly Wild Mission in Charming Short Planet Unknown

Tasked with finding a planet capable of sustaining life, a pair of robots ramble around unexplored terrain, conducting experiments. All is routine on their latest sojourn in Planet Unknown … until their environment takes an unexpected turn. Good thing they’ve got each other to see the mission through. Director Shawn Wang’s engaging short was his…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

Police Robot Grabs Gun From Suspect in LA, Ending Standoff

Last week, Brock Ray Bunge ran into a field in suburban Los Angeles with a shotgun. He was being pursued by the LA Sheriff’s Department for allegedly attempting to kill one person and robbing two others. You might expect a story like this to end in a nasty shoot-out. But instead, you can chalk up…

Tech News Matt Novak

This Quadcopter Can Perform Insane Stunts Completely Autonomously

Quadrotors need outside help to navigate and perform their remarkable stunts, whether it be a human behind the controls or an array of complex sensors placed around a room. But not this one. Developed by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, this drone is practically autonomous—which means it’s an actual drone. The future is finally…

Tech News George Dvorsky

Remember When People Laughed at the ATLAS Robot When It Fell Over? WHO’S LAUGHING NOW?!

Watching ATLAS evolve and master new skills is as fascinating as watching a child develop. Except the humanoid robot, seen here in the lab at Florida’s Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, is gaining new capabilities faster than any human should be comfortable with. It seems like just yesterday that ATLAS was stumbling over a…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

This Giant Claw-Handed Drone Is Coming For Your Kids

Most drones aren’t particularly scary. Aside from maybe gashing you open if they crash into you, there’s not much harm they can do. Until you add a pair of articulated arms with claws on the end, which turns drones into some kind of giant cyborg eagle ready to snatch babies and the elderly right off…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Robot Sumo Wrestling Is Super Intense

The robotic versions of competitive sports are usually disappointing at best—but not when it comes to Sumo Wrestling. The human titans who try to slowly push each other out of a circular ring are actually far less exciting than these tiny zippy robots whose matches are usually over almost as quickly as they begin. Unlike…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski

This Robotic Tractor Looks Seriously Badass

Agricultural equipment manufacturer Case IH, a unit of CNH Industrial, just unveiled a seriously intimidating-looking tractor at the Farm Progress Show in Boone, Iowa. Called the Autonomous Concept Vehicle, the robotic tractor can be programmed using a tablet computer. This futuristic piece of agricultural equipment is drawing crowds at the annual Iowa farm show, and…

Tech News George Dvorsky

Simone Giertz’s New Robot Is Her Shittiest Yet

The queen of shitty robots is back, apparently, with a hankering for a peanut butter sandwich. Her most recent invention is a pair of robotic arms. One holds a plastic knife for peanut butter spreading, and another that a human operator moves to cue identical motions in the knifebot. The human puppeteering the second bot…

Tech News Avery Ellis

Sex Ed Robot Babies Are Doing a Bad Job at Stopping Teen Boning

One might think that caring for a robot baby—one that cries and sleeps like a regular human baby—might discourage teenage girls from getting pregnant. According to new research, however, the robo-babies actually appear to have the opposite effect. A study published today in the medical journal The Lancet found that so-called infant simulator-based programs, which…

Tech News Sophie Kleeman

Would You Let This Surgical Snake Robot Crawl Inside You?

The roboticist behind the creepy snake robot is back with another snake robot. Only this time it’s a robot that you’re supposed to willingly let slither into your mouth. (For health reasons.) The Flex Robotic System, which looks sort of like Wall-E’s phallic little cousin, is developed by Howie Choset, a professor of Carnegie Mellon…

Tech News Alex Cranz

This Conversation Between HAL 9000 and Samantha from Her Is a Little Creepy

Here’s an excellent re-imagination of two of the most famous depictions of artificial intelligence in film, HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey and Samantha from Her. Tillmann Ohm stitched together the actual dialogue from the films to construct a new conversation between the two. It flows rather well. Of course, HAL is still a…

Sploid Casey Chan

Apparently People Trusted This Robot

Why would they give it lips?? Apparently, in order to make a robot as expressive as possible, researchers decided to give BERT2, a robot assistant a pouty pair of lips and wide eyes with… are those eyebrows? Researchers from the University College London and the University of Bristol, who dared to use BERT2 here to…

Tech News Carli Velocci

Iraq Wants to Hunt Down ISIS With This Killer Robot

Military robots are nothing new—whether in reality or pop culture nightmare scenarios. But the Bagdhad Post reports that a new bot could be the first to fire its weapon on Iraqi soil. It’s called alrobot—Arabic for “robot”—and it’s a deadly machine. According to Defense One, Alrobot is equipped with an automatic turret, a rocket launcher,…

Tech News Darren Orf

M.O.P.Z. Is the Most Frantically Bizarre Comedy About a Janitor and a Robot You Will Ever See

If you missed Todd Rohal’s M.O.P.Z. when it aired on Adult Swim, here it is for your brain-exploding pleasure. Put very simply, it’s about a lovelorn school janitor who (tries to) invent a robot helper—and it would be weird enough even without being shown entirely in fast-forward, “because we know you’re busy.” [Vimeo Staff Picks]

io9 Cheryl Eddy

Scare Everyone Shitless With This Animatronic Shark Costume

As Alfred pointed out in The Dark Knight, some men just like to watch the world burn. To them, a day at the beach spent lounging in the sun isn’t particularly enjoyable. But a day at the beach spent terrorizing swimmers with this amazing animatronic shark suit? Now that’s an afternoon well spent. This incredible…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski

This Sushi-Making Robot Is the Future We Deserve

If you haven’t seen the documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi yet, it’s a fascinating look at the man behind the best sushi restaurant in the world, Jiro Ono, and his obsessive drive to continue to improve his craft, and stay one step ahead of the machines that might one day steal his job. Although he…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

The Only Good Use For a Keurig Machine

Time and time again we’ve cautioned you against buying coffee pod machines like the Keurig, but what if one is gifted to you? Instead of just settling for bad coffee every morning, you can do what Evan Booth did and rebuild it into something else, like a functional robotic bionic hand. This isn’t some weekend…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Welcome to the Bone Zone

Here’s a remote-controlled robot skull with a bunch of spooky legs. It’s cool. A guy who goes by Y Nakajima built it. His website is here. It’s inspired by those strandbeest things that everyone loves. No, I can’t tell you how to build one. [Boing Boing]

Sploid Avery Ellis

This Robot Stick Makes Skateboards Go as Fast as a Car

Just now, I saw a man almost die. He was holding a robotic oar down by his side while riding a skateboard. The oar, loaded with a motor and fitted with a wheel at the bottom, sent him launching towards the film crew and me at speeds usually reserved for small cars and scooters. Thankfully…

Tech News Alex Cranz

How to Build a Low-Budget Roomba

A Pair of Space Rovers Embark on an Unexpectedly Wild Mission in Charming Short Planet Unknown

Police Robot Grabs Gun From Suspect in LA, Ending Standoff

This Quadcopter Can Perform Insane Stunts Completely Autonomously

Remember When People Laughed at the ATLAS Robot When It Fell Over? WHO’S LAUGHING NOW?!

This Giant Claw-Handed Drone Is Coming For Your Kids

Robot Sumo Wrestling Is Super Intense

This Robotic Tractor Looks Seriously Badass

Simone Giertz’s New Robot Is Her Shittiest Yet

Sex Ed Robot Babies Are Doing a Bad Job at Stopping Teen Boning

Would You Let This Surgical Snake Robot Crawl Inside You?

This Conversation Between HAL 9000 and Samantha from Her Is a Little Creepy

Apparently People Trusted This Robot

Iraq Wants to Hunt Down ISIS With This Killer Robot

M.O.P.Z. Is the Most Frantically Bizarre Comedy About a Janitor and a Robot You Will Ever See

Scare Everyone Shitless With This Animatronic Shark Costume

This Sushi-Making Robot Is the Future We Deserve

The Only Good Use For a Keurig Machine

Welcome to the Bone Zone

This Robot Stick Makes Skateboards Go as Fast as a Car

Getting Stuck Inside a Glitching Robotaxi Is a Whole New Thing to Be Scared of

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NASA’s Artemis 2 Mission Blasts Off

Disney’s Robot Olaf Dying Is the Funniest Thing to Happen in 2026

Kia’s EV3 Is Headed to the US This Year With Up to 320 Miles of Range

This Is the Way to Lego’s April Releases

Group Pushing Age Verification Requirements for AI Turns Out to Be Sneakily Backed by OpenAI

Amazon Facilities in Bahrain Hit Again as Iran Follows Through on Threat, Report Says

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