The famous Chili Crab dish from Singapore inspires more than just drooling. A pair of researchers have developed a robot with two tiny crab-like pincers that attacks stomach cancer via your mouth. More »
I don't mind heights, but you won't see my sky diving—or BASE jumping, for that matter. This little Disney-financed BASE jumping robot was seemingly made just for me. More »
Robot buses at Heathrow. Robot haulers deployed to Afghanistan. Is the Isaac Asimov estate getting kickbacks for all the future that's happening this weekend or what? More »
Or at least the modded version of the Army's greatest recruitment game, America's Army. Military software engineers have managed to recreate real-life bomb threats in the game, and, with an actual robot controller, soldiers can operate a virtual robot to realistically defuse it. More »
At this time last year, the Adept Quattro was the world's fastest pick and place robot. I don't know if it still holds the title. It does, however, have a new distinction: world's fastest "1to50" player. Here it is playing the game—it requires you to tap all the numbers, 1 through 50, in rapid succession—like only a robot can. [YouTube] More »
