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Here’s a robot from Ishikawa Oku’s physics lab at the University of Tokyo that plays rock, paper, scissor and always beats the human, every single time. Because the team that built it gave it a superpower.   An innocent human is invited to sit opposite the robot. Instead of going “Rock, paper, scissors, shoot!” as […]

DASH, a UC Berkeley-designed, cockroach-inspired robot, manages to take what makes cockroaches so resilient and even retain the cockroach’s singularly creepy movement. This thing is near-indestructible. The 10-cm long DASH, which stands for Dynamic Autonomous Sprawled Hexapod, weighs only 16 grams, yet is able to run 15 times its body length per second. It has […]

Team Italia, one of the organizations competing to land a robot on the moon by 2012, is planning to launch a swarm of spiders designed to move fast and collect data through sensors and cameras. Team Italia still has a long way to go to win the Google X Prize – which will award to […]

Panasonic has revealed a strange new cleaning robot at the recent Tokyo Fiber Senseware expo in Milan. The robot is wrapped in Nanofront, a special polyester cloth based on nanofibers, developed by Teijin, Ltd. The cloth can absorb oil and pick up even ultra-fine dust particles. The creepy robots drag themselves around the floor like […]

Some dreams don’t seem to die, and the country’s Strategic Headquarters for Space Development said recently that they expect a two-legged robot traversing the satellite’s surface by 2020. Should that prove successful, it’ll be followed later by a joint mission with humans – that is, if the robots don’t find a way to take over […]