You’re all familiar with the useless machine, right? It’s a box with a switch and every time you press the switch a hand comes out of the box and turns the switch back off. And that’s all it does. Pretty useless. “Look who’s talking.” Hey! Your insolence aside, this is

This is a video of and from a robotic spy hippopotamus baby built by John Downer Productions (previous spy animals) to infiltrate and film a bloat/pod/herd of wild hippopotamuses, including some exciting underwater action. Fascinating! Did you know hippos don’t swim but actually walk/run along the bottom of the water?

This is a brief video of an automated lemon-stickering machine (I know it was on my Christmas list) doing its thing. Its thing being applying the stickers to lemons so both you and the cashier can identify them at the supermarket. Oh is that a lemon? Shoot, I meant to

This is a video of and from a robotic spy crab built by the nature photographers at John Downer Productions in order to infiltrate the annual red crab migration on Christmas Island in order to capture some up-close and personal footage. Highlights include a crab trying to cannibalize the robot

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 video (including some onboard bot footage) of a litter of kittens interacting with a terrifying hexapod battle robot. If I were one of those kittens I would have torn that damn thing’s legs off after it fired that air hockey puck, but that’s just me and I’m

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the release of The Rolling Stones’ ‘Tattoo You’ album, this is a video of four of Boston Dynamics’ Spot quadruped robots recreating the music video for ‘Start Me Up’. I’m sure baby boomer moms are fainting everywhere. Admittedly, the robots really do a fantastic