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A video of one of Waymo's autonomous ride-hailing vehicles driving over the carefully groomed lawn of a golf course has gone viral.

Waymo Says There’s a Perfect Reasonable Explanation for Its Car Roaming a Golf Course

By Victor Tangermann

A viral video shows a delivery robot in Los Angeles brake checking and cutting off a man with cerebral palsy using a mobility scooter.

Delivery Robot Torments Disabled Man

By Frank Landymore

A video making its rounds on social media shows an engineer from a startup called Skild AI taking a chainsaw to the limbs of a robot dog.

New AI Can Control a Robot Even If Its Legs Get Chainsawed Off

By Victor Tangermann

Recent DARPA robots include sea-based microdrones, cockroach-style surveillance bots, and even cyborg insects.

DARPA Going Hard on Insect-Sized Spy Robots

A video showing a robotics engineer violently yanking a humanoid robot around by a chain wrapped around its neck is making its rounds online.

Disturbing Video Shows Man Jerking Robot Around by Chain Around Its Neck

By Victor Tangermann

Named Robin the Robot, the chirpy AI-powered bot is designed to behave and sound like a seven-year-old girl.

Hospitals Deploying Robot Programmed to Act Like Child to Comfort Pediatric Patients

By Frank Landymore

Called the "first fully autonomous humanoid-operate store," the kiosk chain is said to be rapidly expanding to 100 locations.

China Opens Bodega Entirely Run by Robot

A video that has gone viral on social media shows a humanoid robot's face glancing around the room with a quizzical expression.

Alarming New Video Shows Robot Making Incredibly Realistic Facial Expressions

By Victor Tangermann

Two flying cars collided with each other during an airshow rehearsal in Changchun, a city in northeastern China.

Dark Smoke Billows After Horrific Collision Between Flying Cars

By Victor Tangermann

A new viral video shows a kickboxing and seemingly unstoppable humanoid robot shrugging off a flying dropkick from a human being.

Unstoppable Martial Arts Robot Can Take a Direct Dropkick Without Falling Down

By Victor Tangermann

Humanoid robot startups have bragged they'll ship or test thousands of robots by the year's end. So where are they?

When You Read the Fine Print, Humanoid Robots Are Going Absolutely Nowhere

By Frank Landymore

First theorized in 1963 by a Polish SciFi author, smart dust is now a real life technology with major implications.

Scientists Working on “Smart Dust” That Can Spy on a Room While Drifting Throught the Air

Tesla has a long way to go until it can successfully have AI-powered bipedal robots replace human jobs, according to a new video.

Elon Musk’s New Optimus Robot Demo Is So Painful It Will Make You Wince

By Victor Tangermann

Several schools in Florida will be fitted with dozens of armed drones, which can supposedly confront a shooter within fifteen seconds.

Florida Schools Deploying Armed Drones to Battle School Shooters

By Frank Landymore

At least six news sites in the UK and US have run a pretty obvious fake news story about "pregnancy robots" — and they're still live.

Mainstream Publications Are Getting Suckered by a Ridiculous Fake News Story About a “Pregnancy Robot”

By Noor Al-Sibai

In the middle of a show, Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst provoked and then knocked out of the air a drone that dared to get too close.

Furious Fred Durst Knocks Drone Out of Air During Live Concert

By Noor Al-Sibai