This is a video demonstration of the Roadrunner bipedal robot developed by the Robotics and AI Institute. The 33-pound robot looks like a pair of dismembered robotic legs with wheels for feet, presumably because that’s exactly what it is. It can roll around with its wheels oriented straight ahead or

This is a video from China of a group of young martial artists performing a choreographed routine with little humanoid robots. Admittedly, I did like the part where the robots were flipping off of the springboard. I did not like the part where they were waving swords, even if the

Because the robot apocalypse can’t come soon enough, this is a video of a T800 (yes, seriously) humanoid robot built by Chinese robotics company Shenzhen EngineAI Robotics Technology Co. (EngineAI for short) kicking the company’s CEO to the ground to prove previously posted videos of the robot weren’t CGI. How

Refusing to be drawn into their fray by Oxford’s choice of ‘rage bait’ for word of the year, Merriam-Webster has just announced their own word of the year: slop. I wold have gone with sloppy, but that was pretty much 2025 in a nutshell. We define slop as “digital content

This is allegedly a video of a tele-operated Optimus (Prime is insulted) humanoid robot from Tesla serving water bottles at an event when it appears to mimic the movements of the person operating it by taking off its invisible tele-operator headset, collapsing in the process. Whoops! Still, I do find

Because ‘Black Mirror’ was actually just a regular mirror all along, AI app 2wai (pronounced 2-way) creates digital avatars that you can interact with, promising to connect the currently living with the currently dead for a monthly fee. Because that’s something we’ve been needing. Allegedly all that’s needed is a

Because soon robots will play all our sports for us, this is a video of Morpheus, a giant table tennis playing robot made by Omron that uses AI to actively analyze an opponent’s playstyle and adapts in real time in order to humiliate them. Nice try, robot, but I’m used

This is a video from Pittsburgh-based Skild AI demonstrating the AI brain they’ve developed (“Any robot. Any task. One brain.”), and how quickly it can adapt to a robot’s broken limbs or other decreased mobility. SPOILER: almost instantly. Me? I broke my pinky toe once and thought I was a