Video Friday: AR Drone Stunt, Real Transformer, and Futurama Justice
What better way to kick off the weekend than with a flaming flying robot?
Video Friday: Robohand, Entropy-Powered AI, and Bad Breath Bot
It's Friday, and we know what you need: robot videos
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Not Surprising: Brain Scans Show Humans Empathize With Robots
Nobody likes to see robots getting tortured, but scans reveal that it bothers us almost as much as seeing it happen to humans
Brain Scans Show Humans Feel for Robots
A show of affection or violence toward either robots or humans causes similar changes in the brain
Video Friday: Anti-Drone Lasers, Robot Doctors, and Ikea Furniture Assembly
What happens when you mix anti-robot lasers with robot doctors and Ikea? Video Friday!
Robot Ants Blaze Trails with Pheromones of Light
A swarm of small robots mimics the path-finding behavior of real ants
UZH Wishes Us All a Happy Robot Easter
It's a Robot Easter in Zurich, a robots are teaming up to celebrate
Video Friday: Robots That Fold, Robots That Drive, Robots That Drink
It's a good thing that these origami robots can't fold themselves and multiply, because if they could, the world would have ended by now. It's Video Friday!
Even Brainless Robots Can Show Swarm Behavior
Toothbrush heads with vibrating motors exhibit similar behavior to groups of social insects
AirBurr MAV Navigates by Bouncing Off Walls and Floors
When you have a robot that can't crash, navigation gets a whole lot easier
MIT Teaching PR2 to Be Better at Not Failing
PR2 learns about all the ways it can fail, and then how to make it not happen
Whoa: Quadrotors Play Catch With Inverted Pendulum
Watch these quadrotors balance a stick on its end, and then toss it back and forth
UK Unveils 'Affordable' Self-Driving RobotCar
Oxford's robot car uses cameras and lasers instead of expensive 3D sensors and GPS
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Video Friday: Back Rubs, Scrum Simulators, and Robot Theater
If there was ever a week that we needed a robot back rub, it would be this one
Time Magazine Tackles Drones
Lev Grossman and Chris Anderson weigh in on the present and future of UAVs
Video Friday: RoboCup Qualifiers, a Hulking Heavy-Lift Quadrotor, and SPHERES at Google
Today's Video Friday is brought to you by general fantasticness
Good News: Humans Have Trouble Killing Robots
We look back at a 2007 study on how much trouble humans have deactivating friendly robots
The Job Market of 2045
What will we do when machines do all the work?
Video Friday: One Moose, One Hundred Kilobots, and Robots Refueling Satellites
Thanks to a pair of Kilobot videos, this Video Friday likely contains more robots than ever before
Will Machines Ever Master Translation?
Language translation is proving to be one of the hardest tasks to automate—and one of the most important
Toyota's Semi-Autonomous Car Will Keep You Safe
Is this Toyota's answer to Google's self-driving car?
Happy New Year!
Happy 2013 from IEEE Spectrum Automaton, with a look back at 2012 and forward at the year ahead
Video Monday: Happy Winterval from IEEE Spectrum Automaton
Join robots from around the world in celebrating Winterval, whatever that is
Video Friday: Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots' Robots, Quadcyclorotors, and a Liquid That Thinks
Robots that use robots to battle humans using robots? Obviously, the apocalypse is nigh
Grishin Robotics Pours $250,000 into RobotAppStore
Grishin's second investment of a quarter million dollars goes to an app store for robots
The Human Face Within Big Data
A new book sees big data as mostly good, a little scary, and full of people
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Georgia Tech Robots Learn Deceptive Behaviors from Squirrels
Squirrels use deception to protect their caches of food, and robots are learning to do the same thing
Video Monday: Rat Heart Robots, Cheap UAVs, and Disney's Humanoid
We catch up with some news from the last few weeks that you may have missed
HEARBO Robot Has Superhearing
Honda Research Institute robot masters the invisible world of sound
Robot Mirrors Our Emotions To Be More Social
Researchers find that robots that mirror our emotional states can get a social advantage
IBM’s Watson Tries to Learn…Everything
What happens when Watson learns a million databases? RPI students and faculty hope to find out
How Google's Self-Driving Car Works
Google engineers explain the technology behind their autonomous vehicle and show videos of the road tests