Like I needed a reminder that robots can and will hunt me down given the opportunity, this is the latest video from harbingers of the robot apocalypse Boston Dynamics starring their Atlas humanoid robot performing a little parkour. So, if you were wondering if you could out-parkour a killer robot

This is a clip from an episode of BattelBots featuring a rake swinging robot battling a fire drone that sports commentator Jomboy has added his own play-by-play to. If you ask most people it’s way better than the original commentary, or “Sir are you going to order or not?” if

This is a video of Cassie, a pair of robotic legs (and nothing else) developed by Agility Robotics, successfully running 5K in just over 53 minutes (running at around ~5.7km/h or 3.5MPH) and on a single battery charge. Not bad. For reference, the only way I’m finishing a 5K is

This is a video of Mark Rober discussing and demonstrating the five-years-in-the-making robot he and his team built that’s capable of setting up a record-breaking 100,000 dominos in 24 hours. For reference, it takes an experienced team of seven a full week to set up the same number of dominos,

Because soon the Olympics won’t even have any human competitors, only robots, these are a couple clips of Toyota’s CUE 4 basketball shooting robot at the Olympics sinking a free throw, three-pointer, and half-court shot like shooting fish in a barrel, which is probably a simile it wouldn’t understand unless

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