Realistic Robo-Hawks Designed to Fly Around and Terrorize Real Birds

08-27-2014 • http://www.wired.com, By Kyle VanHemert

Birds are nice enough, unless you work at places like airports, farms, and landfills, in which case they're the sworn enemy.

Watch A Robot Ride A Hovercycle

08-27-2014 • http://www.popsci.com

Drones riding drones to finance even bigger drones.

Robo Brain Project Wants To Turn the Internet into a Robotic Hivemind

08-26-2014 • http://www.popsci.com, Erik Sofge

The Robo Brain system can provide machine-readable commands and tips to confused robots, such as pointing out how to pour coffee from a sensor-mapped dispenser.

Robots could murder us out of KINDNESS unless .....

08-22-2014 • dailymail.co.uk

Robots could murder us out of KINDNESS unless they are taught the value of human life, engineer claims

It's Time To Embrace Our Inevitable Future As Cyborgs

08-20-2014 • Business Insider

In 1929, prosthetics were still rudimentary devices, the idea that brainwaves could be recorded was met with ridicule, and what we would come to think of as "bionics" were many decades away.

Here's How Robots Could Change The World By 2025

08-20-2014 • Business Insider

This past week several reports came across my desk highlighting both the good news and the bad news about the future of automation and robotics.

A Huge, Clay-Filled Robot That Replaces the Potter's Wheel

08-19-2014 • http://www.wired.com, By Joseph Flaherty

For the last two years Dutch artist Olivier van Herpt has been attempting to overhaul the elegant and iconic potter's wheel that has served artists continuously from the time of the Greeks to Ghost.

The Military Is Closing In On Powerful Exoskeleton Technology

08-19-2014 • Business Insider

For decades, the U.S. military and its private-sector partners have been working toward a technology straight out of science fiction: robotic suits.

The DARPA Robotics Challenge

08-19-2014 • Robotics Challenge

The DRC Finals will take place from June 5-6, 2015 at Fairplex in Pomona, California. The DRC Finals will require robots to attempt a circuit of consecutive physical tasks, with degraded communications between the robots and their operators; the winn

Hitchhiking robot charms its way across Canada

08-18-2014 • http://www.myfoxny.com, By CHARMAINE NORONHA

He has dipped his boots in Lake Superior, crashed a wedding and attended an Aboriginal powwow.

Here's a Terrible Idea: Robot Cars With Adjustable Ethics Settings

08-18-2014 • http://www.wired.com, By Patrick Lin

Do you remember that day when you lost your mind? You aimed your car at five random people down the road. By the time you realized what you were doing, it was too late to brake.

Rising Robots: Is it Obvious Robots Cost Human Jobs? Looking for Someone to Blame?

08-18-2014 • globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com

Technology Review has an interesting infographic on the Rising Use of Robots, and which sectors show the biggest increase in use.

By 2025, 'sexbots will be commonplace' ? which is just fine, as we'll all be unemployed.

08-15-2014 • http://www.extremetech.com

By 2025, 'sexbots will be commonplace' ? which is just fine, as we'll all be unemployed and bored thanks to robots stealing our jobs.

Scientists Program Largest Swarm of Robots Ever

08-14-2014 • http://www.wired.com, By Marcus Woo

Alone, the simple little robot can't do much, shuffling around on three vibrating tooth-pick legs. But working with 1,000 or more like-minded fellow bots, it becomes part of a swarm that can self-assemble into any two-dimensional shape.

Edward Snowden Reveals NSA's MonsterMind Program

08-14-2014 • popsci.com

It's a cyberwar robot that always hits back.

Siri's Inventors Are Building a Radical New AI That Does Anything You Ask

08-13-2014 • Wired.com

When Apple announced the iPhone 4S on October 4, 2011, the headlines were not about its speedy A5 chip or improved camera.

Here's The Burger-Flipping Robot That Could Put Fast-Food Workers Out Of A Job

08-12-2014 • http://www.businessinsider.com

A company called Momentum Machines has built a robot that could radically change the fast-food industry and have some line cooks looking for new jobs.

When Robots Take All the Work, What'll Be Left for Us to Do?

08-09-2014 • http://www.wired.com, By Marcus Wohlsen

Robots have loomed over the future of labor for decades?at least since robotic arms started replacing auto workers on the assembly line in the early 1960s.

Why can't They be All 'Dumb' & Cute like Asimo?

08-09-2014 • http://www.dailypaul.com, by AnCapMercenary

Why can't They be All 'Dumb' & Cute like Asimo? IBM's New NeuroSynaptic-Chip takes DARPA One-Step Closer to SkyNet-Actual!

Self-folding origami robot gets up and walks

08-09-2014 • http://www.cnet.com, by Michelle Starr

When it is connected to a power source, this flat robot folds itself into a 3D shape and starts walking.

IBM Unveils a 'Brain-Like' Chip With 4,000 Processor Cores

08-08-2014 • Wired.com

The human brain is the world's most sophisticated computer, capable of learning new things on the fly, using very little data.

Elon Musk Says Robots Could Be More Dangerous Than Nukes

08-05-2014 • defenseone.com

Elon Musk, the Tesla and Space-X founder who is occasionally compared to comic book hero Tony Stark, is worried about a new villain that could threaten humanity?

Video: Great White Sharks Chomp On An Underwater Robot

08-05-2014 • popsci.com

Om nom nom

A Gravity-Defying Robot That Draws Huge Abstract Artworks

08-01-2014 • http://www.wired.com, Joseph Flaherty

This robot, dubbed a "Vertwalker," looks like a squashed Roomba and climbs gallery walls to create giant abstract murals

An Animated Avatar Could Screen Humans For National Security

07-24-2014 • popsci.com

A new study from the U.S.'s lie detection agency recommends robots over people to conduct clearance interviews.

Feds to 'Deploy' Robot Companions for Children in Schools, HOMES

07-23-2014 • godlikeproductions.com

The National Science Foundation has committed $10 million to build robots that will act as "personal trainers" for children, in an effort to influence their behavior and eating habits.