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 news, this is a video of Engineering Arts’ humanoid robot Ameca (previously) attempting to grab the arm of an actual person who boops its nose. Granted,you shouldn’t just go around booping noses all willy-nilly, but you also shouldn’t teach robots to aggressively respond to human interaction. This will

Seen here being powered by what appears to be a Bose brand arc reactor, this is a video of Engineered Arts’ Ameca humanoid robot demonstrating its eerie ability to make realistic human facial expressions. Ameca was “designed to improve human-robot interaction, and as a vehicle for AI technology,” which I

This is a compilation video of Boston Dynamics’ Atlas humanoid robots failing while training to perform in this previously posted parkour video. So if you thought these robots were perfect, think again. Or — OR — maybe they tripped and fell on purpose to give us a false sense of

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

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

In don’t you know staring isn’t polite news, this is a video demonstration of a humanoid robot being developed by Disney Research with the intention of building a robot with as life-like a human gaze as possible. Did they succeed? No clue, it’s so disturbing that I really have a

Because the world is going to hell in the bicycle basket of Wile E. Coyote’s rocket-powered jet-bike, the Nippon Professional Baseball team Softbank Hawks have added 20 Boston Dynamics Spot quadruped robots and 20 Softbank Robotics Pepper humanoid robots to the stands to act as cheerleaders in the fan-less Paypal