Harnessing the power of ChatGPT, Boston Dynamics has turned one of their Spot quadruped robots into a talking tour guide, capable of providing tours of their facility with a variety of personalities, including a 1920’s archaeologist, Shakespearean actor, British butler, and bleak sarcastic guy “Josh”. All of the different personalities

In words I never thought I’d type news, this is a video of a robotic spy mudskipper infiltrating the mating ritual of the amphibious fish to catch the action up close and personal. Ahooga! The ritual begins with some flag (fin) raising displays, proceeds to a jumping (flopping) contest, and

These are a couple video demonstrations of VMECA’s Magic Gripper being used on assembly lines. The Magic Gripper is a line of robotic vacuum powered suction grippers that can grab a row of products as they pass by on a conveyor belt to move to the next stage of a

This is a painful to watch video of an AI-powered Ameca robotic bust from Engineered Arts using a custom Chat GPT 3 model to attempt to tell a joke. It does an absolutely horrible job, and just gets stuck in some sort of progressive 2 + 2 addition loop. Math

This is a video of a robotic spy octopus designed to infiltrate the octopus community and learn its secrets providing a real coconut octopus with a coconut half to cap off the end of the bamboo shoot its hiding in. The footage is pretty remarkable, but this is obviously staged

This is a video highlighting the latest interation of the Tesla Bot, a 5’8″, 125-pound humanoid robot developed by the electric car giant. The robots are powered by the same AI as the driver assistance programming found in Tesla vehicles. Currently, the bots are capable of roaming untethered to explore

The BRUU Moving Beerpong Robot is a small, wheeled robot designed to hold six 16-oz Solo cups on top and randomly move around the table while you play beerpong, adding an increased level of difficulty to the game. Thankfully, it’s outfitted with sensors so it doesn’t fall off the table

Because robots and AI are all the rage as we ramp up preparations for a self-imposed robot apocalypse, this is a video of a robot developed by researchers at Chicago’s DePaul University that mimics a seal’s flopping locomotion to move forward. The researchers, led by mechatronic engineer Dimuthu Kodippili Arachchige,