Developed by defense contractor Onyx Industries, the United States Marine Forces Special Operations Command (MARSOC) is currently testing a quadruped robot with an AI-powered rifle attached to its back capable of bullseyeing womp rats with the precision of Luke Skywalker in his T-16 back home. Will the future of war

Presumably to present their robotic death army as less threatening than it actually is, this is a video of Sparkles, a Boston Dynamics Spot quadruped robot that the company has dressed up in sparkly blue fur so we can all pretend it’s Blue from Blue’s Clues and not the harbinger

The $9,420 Thermonator from Throwflame is a GoTree quadruped robotic dog modified with a large flamethrower mounted on its back for burninating (Trogdor is into this). The robot gets about an hour to a charge and can shoot flames up to 30-feet with its ARC flamethrower, fueled by either gasoline

These is a video from harbinger of robotic doom Boston Dynamics unveiling their new ATLAS humanoid robot, which appears significantly less boxy than its predecessor, and with almost all its joints able to rotate 360-degrees so it can move like the possessed girl in The Exorcist. That’s nice, that’s something

These are a couple videos (a short one and a long one, the short one is probably already long enough though) of the 4-legged Furby abomination built by Youtubers Evan and Katelyn. I like how they wear Furby makes themselves as well. Clearly, this is a couple that likes to

This is a video of a Boston Dynamics ATLAS humanoid robot taking a break from unboxing and sorting shock absorbers to dance. The headless horseman of the apocalypse moves like it’s about to fall down at any second, but manages not to. Kind of like me when I’m drunk, except

This is a clip from student Matt Barta, who presumably programmed this little industrial robotic arm to pull its own power cord from itself. Smart thinking! Or, who knows, maybe the robot foresaw a life of cruel robotic experimentation in its future and decided to end things itself while it

This is a video of of The University of Tokyo’s Alter3 humanoid robot being fed text prompts by ChatGPT 4 to be acted out like in charades. It’s absolutely horrible at the game (okay, its snake and ghost were decent), and if you’re playing charades, you better hope ol’ Alter