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Japanese Robot Makes Sushi in Seconds

The Japanese robotics manufacturer Kawasaki has created a bot that can prepare nigiri sushi in under a minute. As robots get more advanced, they will likely take over many jobs in the future — including those of sushi chefs. For a sneak peak [...]

Knock Knock: Dallas Police Used Robot With Bomb to Kill Ambush Suspect

Erik Ortiz reports: Police in Dallas used a robot with an explosive device to kill a suspect involved in a coordinated ambush against officers. “We saw no other option but to use our bomb robot and place a device on its extension for it to [...]

Robotic Wine Tasting Nanosensor Can Perform Better than Inferior Human Wine Critics

Artificial Tongue Application Potential Not Yet Fully Explored But We Suspect You Have Ideas Not Mentioned Here This might the first post we’ve done that falls into the categories “Food & Drink” and “Robotics”. I [...]

[VIDEO] A Robot on a Hoverbike – Why Not?

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Martha Stewart: Why I Love My Drone

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OUT: 3D-Printed Guns. IN: 3D-Printed…

My nomination for headline of the week, from Reason.com (read [...]

Tuna Robot! Navy Tests UUV

The Future of Underwater Surveillance? For Defense Tech, Kris Osborn reports: The Navy is testing a stealthy, 4 foot-long fish-shaped autonomous underwater vehicle designed to blend in with undersea life and perform combat sensor functions, [...]

Japan: World’s First Android Newscasters Are Here to Replace Cable News Hosts

For Gizmodo, Casey Chan writes: In the future, we’ll get the news from fair and balanced android newscasters that’ll somehow terrify us more than the cable newspeople we have today. These android newscasters are frighteningly [...]

Neurobridge: Paralyzed Man Becomes First to Use Power of Thought to Move Hand

Ohio doctors insert microchip into Ian Burkhart’s brain allowing him to move hand for first time since accident For the Telegraph, Rosa Prince reports: A young American paralysed in a swimming accident has become the first patient to move his [...]

Dawn of a Robot Revolution as Army of Machines Escape the Factory

For FT.com, Chris Bryant writes: Cleaning the Sydney Harbour Bridge used to be a dangerous, dirty and laborious job. As soon as a team of workers, operating a sandblaster, reached one end of the iconic structure they had to start again to keep [...]

Interactive Panorama Lets You Stand on Mars

From @wiredscience: An interactive panorama lets you stand on Mars with @MarsCuriosity: http://t.co/2KtPRBqkF1pic.twitter.com/tlVb2XOspM — NASA (@NASA) May 2, 2014 Caked in red silt, NASA’s Curiosity rover looks like it’s been trekking [...]

Vintage Photo: Superman & Robot

Adventures of Superman (1952–1958) George Reeves Note: Some good stuff can be found in IMDB’s Trivia [...]

Rise of Robot Laborers in China Could Change Global Trade Game

Frances Martel reports: 2013 was a banner year for uncalled for expansion of China’s borders, from the Senkaku Islands Air Identification Defense Zone to a state TV show claiming the entirety of the Philippines for China. But on the [...]

Retail Robot Wars: Google Robots May Pose Challenge to Amazon drones

Leo Kelion reports: Google has revealed it has taken over seven robotics companies in the past half a year and has begun hiring staff to develop its own product. A spokesman confirmed the effort was being headed up by Andy Rubin, who was [...]

Today In Dystopian War: Robots That Will Harvest Us For Our Organs

John Biggs writes: Welcome to our continuing series featuring videos of robots that will, when they become autonomous, hunt us down and force us to work in the graphene factories of Mars. Below we see Wild Cat, a fully untethered remote control [...]

The Dextrus Robotic Hand Wants To Make Advanced Prosthetics 100X Cheaper Via 3D Printing

The Dextrus hand is the working prototype resulting from Joel Gibbard’s Open Hand Project, an open source hardware initiative that aims to lower the cost of robotic prosthetics dramatically. Dextrus is a fully-functional robotic hand, with [...]