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

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,

MIT roboticists and Harvard mathematicians have teamed up to solve an age-old problem: how to teach a robot to brush tangled human hair without just ripping it all out and/or killing the person it’s attached to. Per MIT News while I brush my own hair in the mirror and repeatedly

This is a video from Walt Disney’s Imagineering department of the free-walking animatronic Baby Groot they’ve been developing. The first bit of the video is the progress they’ve made in recent years, but starting at 0:42 you can see it’s current state, which, admittedly, is pretty impressive (although he still