Because the robot apocalypse can’t come soon enough, this is a video of a T800 (yes, seriously) humanoid robot built by Chinese robotics company Shenzhen EngineAI Robotics Technology Co. (EngineAI for short) kicking the company’s CEO to the ground to prove previously posted videos of the robot weren’t CGI. How

This is a short video of a robot operator taking a swift kick to the nuts by the Unitree G1 robot that’s copying his moves. In the operator’s own translated words while I pretend to tear my own head off just in case any robots are copying me: Before that

This is allegedly a video of a tele-operated Optimus (Prime is insulted) humanoid robot from Tesla serving water bottles at an event when it appears to mimic the movements of the person operating it by taking off its invisible tele-operator headset, collapsing in the process. Whoops! Still, I do find

Because soon robots will play all our sports for us, this is a video of Morpheus, a giant table tennis playing robot made by Omron that uses AI to actively analyze an opponent’s playstyle and adapts in real time in order to humiliate them. Nice try, robot, but I’m used

This is a video from Pittsburgh-based Skild AI demonstrating the AI brain they’ve developed (“Any robot. Any task. One brain.”), and how quickly it can adapt to a robot’s broken limbs or other decreased mobility. SPOILER: almost instantly. Me? I broke my pinky toe once and thought I was a

Previously seen folding laundry, this is a video of a humanoid robot demonstrating its dexterity by autonomously loading a dishwasher. That’s cool, but I don’t really mind loading and unloading the dishwasher. The dishwasher really does all the heavy lifting as far as washing dishes is concerned. What I really

Because watching robots battle is a real glimpse of the future (battling us, unfortunately), this is a video of Unitree’s little G1 humanoid robots kickboxing each other in the ring. In these fights, the robots are being remotely operated by humans standing ringside, but in the future they’ll be fighting

Folding laundry: hands down my least favorite chore. I don’t even know why, I regularly dodge angry wasps doing yard work and do the dishes and vacuum and a million other things, but for whatever reason when it’s time to fold laundry it just sits in the dryer until I