An insult to pastry chefs the world over, the Bakon Cake Decorator (officially the Bakon Piston Depositor with Cake Decorating Option) can spread the icing on layered cakes with enough precious and evenness to presumably avoid any 1-star Yelp reviews. That’s cool, but I prefer my cakes iced the old

Because yellow tape means nothing to a robot, this is a video of a Serve autonomous food delivery bot casually entering a cordoned off crime scene in Los Angeles to deliver its food payload. I guess Serve forgot to include some police protocol programming for the robot. Obviously, it’s only

Because it’s important to be able to differentiate a robot’s smile from a sneer, this is a video of Engineered Arts’ Ameca robot (previously) demonstrating its numerous facial expressions in a mirror. It’s relatively impressive I suppose, but the best facial expression in the whole video isn’t one of Ameca’s

In bad idea news, this is a video of engineer Allen Pan building robotic legs so a snake can experience every snake’s lifelong dream of walking. Should we be giving snakes robotic legs? Of course not, but that’s not going to stop somebody from doing it for the Youtube views,

This is a video demonstration of an onion cutting and peeling machine that automatically orients onions to horizontally cut their tops and bottoms off, then rips their paper skins off with a blast of high pressure air. How about that! And here I thought onions were all peeled by hand

This is a video from the recent Moscow Chess Open, where a chess-playing robotic arm (we’ll call it Robby Fischer) broke a 7-year old’s finger by pinning it to the board because the boy “did not give the robot enough time to respond to his most recent move.” Never rush

These are two videos from MoriROBO, a Japanese robotic food handling company, demonstrating The Q Crepe Robot, a countertop robotic crepe maker that spins crepes like your favorite records. But, instead of producing tasty jams, it produces delicious crepes. Yum! So, if you were wondering why I’ve already packed on

Because some people actual welcome the robot apocalypse with open, soon to be severed arms, some aspiring war criminal went and strapped a Russian PP-19 Vityaz submachine gun to the top of a radio controlled robot dog they bought off AliExpress for $3,000. As far as good ideas go, this