Harnessing the power of ChatGPT, Boston Dynamics has turned one of their Spot quadruped robots into a talking tour guide, capable of providing tours of their facility with a variety of personalities, including a 1920’s archaeologist, Shakespearean actor, British butler, and bleak sarcastic guy “Josh”. All of the different personalities

Because wasps are the absolute worst, this is a video of one playing ding dong ditch with a video doorbell, ringing the bell then immediately flying away. What a jerk! Knowing wasps, it probably toilet papered their house that very same night. Still, of all the things in the world

Because nothing quite screams robot apocalypse like a flying robotic spider, researchers at the University of Tokyo’s robotics department have developed just that, in the form of SPIDAR. What does SPIDAR stand for? Why ‘SPherIcally vectorable and Distributed rotors assisted Air-ground amphibious quadruped Robot’ of course! Jeez, use your brain.

This is a video highlighting all the real OSHA violations spotted in Boston Dynamics’ latest video of its ATLAS humanoid robot doing some construction work. Unsurprisingly, the robot does NOT follow proper safety guidelines. Like, at all. I wish I could say I’m surprised. I also wish I could say

Seen here looking like it’s fleeing the scene of a bank robbery, this is a video of Boston Dynamics’ ATLAS humanoid robot demonstrating its latest capabilities in order to deliver a toolbag to a human coworker. In the clip, it picks up a board and makes a bridge for itself

Trim as in decorate, not trim as in cut, but give them a chainsaw attachment and I’m sure they could do that as well. Make you need a pair bionic legs too. This is a video of a trio of Boston Dynamics’ Spot quadruped robots putting a bow on the

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