Because soon all sports will be played entirely by robots, this is a video of Google’s i-S2R ping pong playing robot completing a 4-minute, 340-shot rally with a human before it nets a ball because clearly there’s still work to be done. That’s cool, but why did they name it

Hopefully named Johnny 5 Appleseed or its creators completely blew it, this is a video of a robotic apple harvester picking about 30 apples in a minute, using the latest in apple-identifying technology and its six suction-cupped hands to get the job done. That’s cool. For reference, I’ve never actually

Because the robotic apocalypse can’t come soon enough, this is a video from Chinese defense contractor Kestrel Defence featuring its Blood-Wing/Red Wing drone deploying a robotic war dog armed with a machine gun. So, if you were wondering what the beginning of the end looks like, this is definitely it.

This is a video of Cassie, a pair of robotic legs inspired by those of an ostrich, setting the world record for fastest 100m run by a two-legged robot. Cassie finishes with a time of 24.73-seconds. For reference, the current world record for a human is Usain Bolt’s 9.58 seconds

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 yellow tape means nothing to a robot, this is a video of a Serve autonomous food delivery bot casually entering a cordoned off crime scene in Los Angeles to deliver its food payload. I guess Serve forgot to include some police protocol programming for the robot. Obviously, it’s only

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

This is a video from the recent Moscow Chess Open, where a chess-playing robotic arm (we’ll call it Robby Fischer) broke a 7-year old’s finger by pinning it to the board because the boy “did not give the robot enough time to respond to his most recent move.” Never rush