Bumblebee, No!: Transformer Falls After Giving Girl High-Five, Spontaneously Disassembles
This is a short video from the mall (wish I was there) where a girl gives Bumblebee a high-five, then he rolls an ankle (axle?) and eats...
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Real Life Transformers: Aquanaut, A Submarine That Transforms Into Half-Humanoid
This is a video demonstration of Aquanaut, an autonomous submarine robot that can transform into a partial humanoid (hopefully an Autobot). Aquanaut was developed by Houston Mechatronics...
An Impressive Pair Of Teleoperation Robotic Hands That Provide Tactile Feedback To The User
This is a video demonstration of the teleoperation robotic arms and hands developed by Shadow Robot along with Haptx (developers of haptic technologies) and Syntouch (developer of...
So Many Pretzels: Industrial Dough Twisting Machines
This is a video demonstration (complete with much harder-core soundtrack than I was anticipating) of the industrial dough-twisting Multitwist machines manufactured by "bakery automation company" Fritsch. It...
Visions Of The Future: When Humanoid Robots Fight Back
This is a CG video (the robot isn't real) from the folks at Corridor Digital imagining what would happen if Boston Dynamics' humanoid robots finally get fed...
Boston Dynamics Spot Robot Takes A Spill During Live Demo
In other, much more promising robotics news, this is a video of a Boston Dynamics Spot quadruped robot taking a rather unpleasant spill during a live demonstration...
The End Nears: Robotic Legs Learn How To Ride Electric Skates
This is a video of a group of researchers from University Of California Berkeley's Hybrid Robotics Lab training a Cassie humanoid leg robot (previously) how to balance...
Deepfake Of Sylvester Stallone's Face Replacing Arnold Schwarzenegger's In Terminator 2
These are two deepfake videos from Youtuber Ctrl Shift Face (previously) of Sylvester Stallone's face replacing Arnold's in Terminator 2, including a deleted scene from the original...
The Little Killer That Could: Quadruped Dog Robot Pulls A Small Jet
This is a video of a single HyQReal robot (developed by the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia and Moog Robotics) pulling a small jet all by itself. The...
All Robotic Band Compressorhead Performs Nirvana's 'Smells Like Teen Spirit'
This is a video of the all-robotic band Compressorhead (previously) performing Nirvana's classic 'Smells Like Teen Spirit'. Personally I bet it smells more like melting wires and...
A Headless Humanoid Delivery Robot Driven To Your Home By An Autonomous Car
"Um, what the hell is that?" "Just smile and don't look it in the eyes, dear." "It doesn't even have a head, mom." This is a video...
The End Nears: Drone Programmed To Dodge Balls Thrown At It
Because what good is a killer drone if it can't dodge a projectile hurled from a member of the human resistance, this is a video from the...
Atlas Humanoid Robot Demonstrating Autonomous Path Planning Across Narrow Terrain
This is a video demonstration of the walk plan algorithm developed by IHMC Robotics for Boston Dynamics' Atlas humanoid robot. Some more info while I crouch down...
Roomba Modded To Curse When It Runs Into Things
This is a video of the Roomba that Youtuber Michael Reeves modded to curse whenever it runs into something, then took to his local Target to do...
Robotic Arms Designed For Household Chores
This is a video demonstration of Blue, a pair of robotic arms developed by researchers at UC Berkeley that were designed for household chores. MAKE MY BED...
We've Come So Far: Water Bottle Flipping Robots
These are two videos of a bunch of surprisingly impressive water bottle flipping robots built by high school students and demonstrated at Japan's ROBOCON 2018. It's weird...
So It Begins: A Team Of 10 Boston Dynamics SpotMini Robotic Dogs Pull A Truck
This is a video from Boston Dynamics starring ten of their SpotMini robotic dogs towing a truck (1-degree uphill, truck in neutral) across the parking lot. According...
Toyota Demonstrates Their 'Nearly 100% Accurate' Basketball Shooting Robot
These are a couple video demonstrations of the Toyota Engineering Society's CUE 3 humanoid robot, a bot designed to shoot baskets with "nearly 100 percent accuracy." Some...