Robots

Meet Spot, an advanced mobile robot who's main function is sensing, surveillance, inspection and remote operation. At least that's the job it's suppose to do until it breaks free of it's programming and goes on a murderous rampage.

No, it won't be an invasion of Transformers on Saturday, instead the Robotics Education and Competition Foundation is taking over the Great Plains Coliseum on Saturday for the 2017 Oklahoma VEX State Championship.

The day had finally arrived were technology has advanced to the point where a person can own their own robot! Not just any robot, JIBO the world's first family robot. Unlike a lot of the other attempts at robotics in the past, JIBO is actually very useful and has all kinds of real world possibilities.

If putting a smile on someone's face is its own reward, then one high school class is being paid in spades.

The mad scientists over at Boston Dynamics have created a four-legged dog-like robot they call BigDog robot.

We all know that Apple was founded when Steve Jobs took a technicolor trip through a forest and was bonked on the head with a Newtonian Apple logo of inspiration, before going on to literally give birth to a bulky Macintosh computer. Well, that’s how Taiwanese animation team Next Media Animation remembers it at least.

If you’ve ever longed to feel your own gentle caress, long no more. Produced by the Kajimoto Laboratory at Tokyo’s University of Electro-Communications, the Sense-Roid is electronic apparatus consisting of two sensor-filled jackets and a mannequin that allows the user to feel the sensation of hugging him or herself.

Japanese YouTuber Ron Tajima likes to build robots. Not necessarily the kind of robots that are going to revolutionize manufacturing as we know it, but the kind that will turn from a beer can into a cute little creature or from a Roomba into a baby cradle ...