If after the robopocalypse our robot overlords are polite enough to apologize for rising up and enslaving us, I imagine it’ll look a lot like these robot heads singing “Sorry, Sorry” by Super Junior.
Because who doesn’t want to have a telepresence robot mounted on their shoulder?
These scientists should have titled their paper “We made a creepy robotic tentacle!”
MIT’s Jammable Robot ManipulatorMIT researchers present a robust, high-force, low-cost, and highly articulated manipulator based on reversible jamming of granular media. Part of the paper “Design and Analysis of a Robust, Low-cost, Highly Articulated Manipulator Enabled by Jamming of Granular Media,” by N. G. Cheng et al, presented at the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation.
Making robots ultra creepy, 80s style.
This robot could be a great help to us by keeping solar panels clean and efficiently generating electricity, until it decides humankind isn’t worth the trouble and sprays mud all over the glass!
Boston Dynamics, why are you so dead set on creating robotic versions of predatory animals? And please tell me those things have a kill switch.
Robots will destroy humankind … WITH THEIR RIDICULOUS DANCING! (via @PlasticPals)
Paralysed woman moves robot with her mind
Controlling robots with your mind = good. The other way around, though …
Roboticist Heather Knight (@heatherknight) is the robot whisperer. I consider myself more of robot shrieker.
