This is a rather fascinating video of explainer of things Tom Scott visiting a grocery packing warehouse in the southeast of London, where 2,300 robots are constantly on the move gathering and packing bags of groceries for delivery to customers. The facility, the size of seven football (soccer?) fields, contains

The Hyundai Motor Group just acquired a controlling 80% stake in Boston Dynamics to the tune of around $900-million. And to celebrate that acquisition, this is a video of seven Boston Dynamics Spot quadruped robots dancing to ‘IONIC: I’m On It’, a music collaboration between the South Korean auto manufacturer

This is some rare (possibly explaining why we hadn’t seen in before) 16mm footage captured in the props department at London’s Elstreet Studios in 1976 of actors Kenny Baker (R2-D2) and Anthony Daniels (C-3PO) trying on their droid costumes and getting used to moving around in them. There’s also some

MIT roboticists and Harvard mathematicians have teamed up to solve an age-old problem: how to teach a robot to brush tangled human hair without just ripping it all out and/or killing the person it’s attached to. Per MIT News while I brush my own hair in the mirror and repeatedly

This is a video from a homeowner in Tecumseh, Michigan who says that she released her Roomba robot vacuum for the first time in her new house and what does it do? Draws a wiener on the carpet right in the middle of the living room. Now I thought Roombas

This is a video from Walt Disney’s Imagineering department of the free-walking animatronic Baby Groot they’ve been developing. The first bit of the video is the progress they’ve made in recent years, but starting at 0:42 you can see it’s current state, which, admittedly, is pretty impressive (although he still

Because the robot apocalypse is literally right around the corner, this is a video of Youtuber Warped Perception putting a new $1,000 Skydio 2 autonomous tracking drone through its paces. He tests it in three scenarios: tracking a person running through the woods, tracking him as he drives his Supra

This is a video from Festo (not be confused with Fisto, the Protectron robot found in Fallout: New Vegas that you can mod into a pleasure bot) of their latest generation of BionicSwifts, robotic birds that fly using the same mechanics as real birds. According to Festo, the latest BionicSwifts