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Watch This Giant Real-Life Robot Dog Fling Cinderblocks Across the Room
The mad scientists over at Boston Dynamics have created a four-legged dog-like robot they call BigDog robot.
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AC/DC’s ‘T.N.T.’ Performed Live by Robot Band Compressorhead
Get ready to be both entertained and terrified for the eventual extinction of the human race at the hands of sophisticated musical robots. Have real-life engineers never seen the 'Terminator' flicks? Robot band Compressorhead recently performed the AC/DC classic 'T.N.T.' live on television, and the next step is likely world domination.
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Massage Robot On Wheels Could Disrupt Massage Industry, Or Not
Robot technology is often spectacular when's it's on full display, like the Mars rover, military drones and the Roomba. These incredible machines often complete tasks that humans can only hope to achieve. One company is putting robotic technology to its best use yet: providing automated massages through the use of a tiny car that motors across your body.
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Jam Out With All-Robot Band ‘Compressorhead’
The all-robot band Compressorhead makes those Chuck E. Cheese animatrons look like a bunch of clowns!
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Quadriplegic Woman Feeds Herself With Robotic Arm
This incredible video shows a woman's journey from almost total immobility to being able to pick up and move objects, thanks to surgical brain implants connected to a robotic arm named 'Hector.'
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Robotic Mannequins Are Being Used to Spy on Shoppers
If you ever get a creepy feeling that the mannequins in the department store are watching you, you just might be right. Some fashion brands are now using mannequins equipped with technology used to identify criminals at airports to watch shoppers at their stores.
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Is Sex With Robots the Key to Living Longer?
As guys, we’re pretty much open to any sort of sexual experience out there, except like, dolphin humping. That's weird. So, when we heard there’s some research going on about sex with robots, we lost a little of our faith in the human race, but were also slightly intrigued.
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Dad Uses Amazing Terminator Arm For Good, Not Evil
This amazing video makes us wonder -- is there some sort of psychological evaluation before somebody is given a robot-Terminator arm, or do doctors just cross their fingers and hope for the best? It seems like that could go really wrong.
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RoboCop in Real Life? Crime Fighting Robots Coming to New Jersey
Your childhood fantasy (or fear?) of seeing an officer of the law who is part man/part machine may be coming true soon, thanks to Researchers at Florida International University's Discovery Lab and a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy Reserves. These folks are working to build "telepresence robots," which would patrol the streets while being controlled by disabled police officers and military vets. Let's pause to allow the awesomeness sink in.
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Most Americans Would Love to Have Their Own Robots to Help Around the House
Full-time household help can be expensive — but how would you feel about having a domestic robot? According to a new survey, 68 percent of us would welcome the mechanical assistance.
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Could Prisons Soon Be Guarded by Robots?
South Korea is hoping to become the first country to hire robots to help guard their prison populations.
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Designer Creates Prototype for Robot Armpit That Smells Like Real Armpit
Look closely. What you’re seeing isn’t chewing gum that’s been left on the floor of a hair salon. That’s a robot armpit prototype, built by designer Kevin Grennan as part of his studies on the role of smell in human-robot interaction. He’s also developed ideas for adding scent glands to industrial robots — like a surgical robot that releases the trust-building hormone oxytocin.