3 hours ago  |  2 notes

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.

2 days ago  |  22 notes

Kickstarter: helping raise a robot army one donation at a time.

3 days ago  |  23 notes Because who doesn’t want to have a telepresence robot mounted on their shoulder? 

Because who doesn’t want to have a telepresence robot mounted on their shoulder? 

1 week ago  |  28 notes  |  futurescope

These scientists should have titled their paper “We made a creepy robotic tentacle!”

futurescope:

MIT’s Jammable Robot Manipulator

MIT 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. 

1 week ago  |  27 notes

Making robots ultra creepy, 80s style. 

1 week ago  |  23 notes 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!

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!

1 week ago  |  17 notes

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.

2 weeks ago  |  17 notes

Robots will destroy humankind … WITH THEIR RIDICULOUS DANCING! (via @PlasticPals)

2 weeks ago  |  7 notes

Paralysed woman moves robot with her mind

2 weeks ago  |  6 notes

Roboticist Heather Knight (@heatherknight) is the robot whisperer. I consider myself more of robot shrieker.