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Galileo: A robotic arm for your iPhone

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Galileo: A robotic arm for your iPhone

The iPhone’s video functionality is great: you can share not just your voice, but your face, as those ads a few years ago emphasized. Although we can’t imagine it’s great in all situations. Or most situations, actually.

FTR Caddy Trek: Finally, a robot golf caddy

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FTR Caddy Trek: Finally, a robot golf caddy

Golf is, for most of us, less of a sport and more of a social obligation. Your boss golfs, or your girlfriend’s dad golfs, or your dad and uncles golf, so, as a result, you golf. And, hey, at least you get some walking in, right?

VIDEO: Japan mixes pillows and robots to make a nightmare

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VIDEO: Japan mixes pillows and robots to make a nightmare

Everybody remembers that time as a kid when they thought something in their room was alive. Noises and shadows combine to terrify you in the night, and possibly lead to yet another cleaning of your rubber she-ah, let's just move on and show you the absolutely terrifying pillow that, who else, the

VIDEO: Texas cops have weaponizable UAV

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VIDEO: Texas cops have weaponizable UAV

Hey, we get the appeal of owning your very own UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle; i.e. a flying robot). They're great at parties, and for destroying your enemies. On the other hand, we're not really sure what a Houston suburb really needs with what amounts to a glorified RC helicopter.

Robots now feed on the blood of insects?

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Robots now feed on the blood of insects?

In the entire time that we've been building machines to do the jobs we hate doing, one thing we have actually made sure to do is to keep them dependent on us. Want to keep washing our laundry and building our cars? Better be nice or we'll flip the power switch and shut you down, mofos. Yeah! Who's

Robots and humans can now share a skin

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Robots and humans can now share a skin

Replacing skin is a pretty difficult and nasty business, as one might expect. So the search for a good synthetic skin has been going on for decades. Now, a skin invented for robots might actually be ideal for people too. Meaning you may be sharing a look