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 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,

These are two videos of a pair of robotic arms programmed by Swedish composer Frederik Gran to play stringed instruments — in this case, the cello and double base. One arm and hand does the fretting, while the other operates the bow. And while their performance didn’t really tug at

Because I’m not really sure why, but there’s definitely no excuse for it, this is a video of ‘The Prayer’, a robotic mouth developed by conceptual scientist Diemut Strebe at MIT’s Center for Art, Science & Technology that endlessly sings AI-generated prayers. It was developed “to explore the possibilities of

This is a video of Tom Scott visiting robotics company Engineered Arts to meet his robotic doppelganger. The resemblance is uncanny decent. Honestly, Tom seems more impressed than I was, but he probably isn’t a jaded a$$hole. Plus he got to see it in person, and it was actually made

Using AI learning, scientists at the University of Tokyo’s ISI Laboratory have successfully taught a pair of robotic arms to peel a banana without tearing your penis off with one hand and vaporizing it with the laser blaster in its other. Congratulations? Handling soft fruit is tricky for robots, but

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