A step in the effort to allow machines to “emote and communicate in a more lifelike way,” a collaborative team of scientists from the University of Tokyo and Harvard University have covered a robotic face with living skin. “But I want to wear your face,” I imagine the robot telling

Because robots don’t like competition, this is a video of a robotic vacuum pushing a lil creamsicle cat named Indy (we named the cat Indiana) underneath a chair. That’s just like a robot to try sweeping a problem under the rug (in this case a chair) instead of addressing it

Created by the folks of Youtube channel Every Flavor Of Robot (even rum raisin and butter pecan?!), the Etch-A-Sketch Camera is a modified version of the toy that can turn taken photos (or ones pulled from the internet) into line drawings with the power of AI. That’s pretty impressive. Still,

To demonstrate the precision of its new Microsurgery Assistance Robot, Sony used the device to delicately stitch up a single kernel of corn. What that corn did to require stitches, I’m not sure, but I suspect it involved an accident with one of those spiked corn on the cob holders

Developed by defense contractor Onyx Industries, the United States Marine Forces Special Operations Command (MARSOC) is currently testing a quadruped robot with an AI-powered rifle attached to its back capable of bullseyeing womp rats with the precision of Luke Skywalker in his T-16 back home. Will the future of war

Presumably to present their robotic death army as less threatening than it actually is, this is a video of Sparkles, a Boston Dynamics Spot quadruped robot that the company has dressed up in sparkly blue fur so we can all pretend it’s Blue from Blue’s Clues and not the harbinger

The $9,420 Thermonator from Throwflame is a GoTree quadruped robotic dog modified with a large flamethrower mounted on its back for burninating (Trogdor is into this). The robot gets about an hour to a charge and can shoot flames up to 30-feet with its ARC flamethrower, fueled by either gasoline

These is a video from harbinger of robotic doom Boston Dynamics unveiling their new ATLAS humanoid robot, which appears significantly less boxy than its predecessor, and with almost all its joints able to rotate 360-degrees so it can move like the possessed girl in The Exorcist. That’s nice, that’s something