Robots

Mind-Control Machines

Jilly Gagnon | Posted 11.12.2009 | Comedy


Jilly Gagnon

Hell, owner. My name is iCat, and it's my job to advise you on energy use. Use me once and you'll never want to leave me ever again.

AUEs: Miniature Robots To Swarm The Oceans For Science

LiveScience | Posted 11.11.2009 | Technology


Swarms of soup-can-sized robots will soon plunge into the ocean seeking data on poorly understood phenomena from currents to biology. ...

6 Insane Laws We'll Need In The Future

cracked.com | Posted 11.09.2009 | Technology


From the war on drugs to gay marriage to file sharing, it seems like the law is in a continual, often losing, battle to keep up with the modern world....

Mood Tail: A Robotic Tail For Humans (VIDEO)

Posted 10.14.2009 | Technology


Opposable thumbs are pretty nifty. Walking upright is pretty cool too. But there's something we humans have always lacked: a tail. The Mood Tail -- ...

Who Keeps Fighting if the Troops Leave Afghanistan?

Jairus Grove | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics


Jairus Grove

I have no idea what a drone sounds like. What I do know is that every child in the territory of Waziristan must talk about it constantly. This is slow sadistic torture.

New Reissues Prove Kraftwerk Is the Most Important Band Ever

Tim Mohr | Posted 10.08.2009 | Entertainment


Tim Mohr

The birthplace of all that's cool and modern in music wasn't Memphis, Liverpool or the South Bronx. It was Dusseldorf, Germany, where Kraftwerk invented the future we are now living.

CEATEC's Best Robots Ever (PHOTOS, POLL)

Posted 10.06.2009 | Technology


CEATEC 2009 launches October 6, and in honor of the cutting-edge tech and consumer-electronics show (which has wowed us year after year ) we decided t...

My "Surrie" With the Fringe on Top

Jared Gardner | Posted 10.01.2009 | New York


Jared Gardner

I love opening weekend for new comics movies like Surrogates. For brief but increasingly frequent moments in the course of a year I have a perfect excuse to evangelize about comics.

Robot Hunts Toxic Waste Dumped By Mafia Off Italian Coast

AP | Posted 11.15.2009 | Green


ROME — Italian authorities have dispatched a robot submarine with a video camera to a shipwreck off the Calabrian coast to see if if it's carryi...

Republicans Lying to Old People About Euthanasia, Robots

Bob Cesca | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics


Bob Cesca

Republicans would have you believe that all the debate about making health insurance more affordable is merely subterfuge in the White House's scheme to impose a final solution to the nation's elderly problem.

Apollo 11 Politiku

Susanna Speier | Posted 08.18.2009 | Politics


Susanna Speier

In honor of the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11's moon landing, individuals with NASA affiliations that range from astronaut to intern condensed the seminal event into 17 syllable historiographies.

Military EATR Robot Could Feed On Dead Bodies On Battlefield

Fox News | Posted 08.15.2009 | World


It could be a combination of 19th-century mechanics, 21st-century technology -- and a 20th-century horror movie. A Maryland company under contract to...

Jason Linkins

Military EATR: Contractor Working On Horrifying Corpse-Eating Robots [UPDATE]

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics


UPDATE: Good news, via FastCompany. Fox, who was the source of this terrifying story, now says, "contrary to reports, including one that appeared on F...

Panasonic Builds Medical Robot That Dispenses Drugs

AP | Posted 08.07.2009 | Business


TOKYO — Panasonic Corp. said Tuesday has developed a medical robot that dispenses drugs to patients, the Japanese electronics giant's first step...

U.S. Department of Defense to Use Hummingbirds as Spies

Levi Novey | Posted 08.07.2009 | Green


Levi Novey

Robotic hummingbirds will be able to discretely enter areas where people would not be able to go without being detected and will look so realistic that people could easily be fooled.

Guest Blogger, William Pomerantz: Our Robotic Overlords

Peter Diamandis | Posted 06.04.2009 | Politics


Peter Diamandis

With kids like these, the future will always look bright, no matter how dark the present seems. The world needs a generation of champions for change, and that's exactly what today's youth are.

Intelligent Robo-Penguins Take To Seas, Skies (VIDEO)

NewScientist | Posted 05.24.2009 | Green


I like penguins and I like robots. So imagine my delight when I discovered this NewScientist story -- and video -- about bionic penguins. Using the...

The Dawn of Robot Wars

Eric Stoner | Posted 05.19.2009 | Politics


Eric Stoner

With little public scrutiny, robotics is quickly revolutionizing not only how war is fought, but who fights in war.

"IRON MAN" ROBOT SUIT Cyberdyne: HAL in 2009 (PHOTOS) (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Willow Lindley | Posted 05.14.2009 | Living


Ever dream of being Iron Man? Well, that dream might not be as far fetched as you might think. Cyberdyne, a Japanese company founded Professor Sankai,...

Pentagon Exploring Robot Killers That Can Fire By Themselves

McClatchy | Posted 04.25.2009 | World


The unmanned bombers that frequently cause unintended civilian casualties in Pakistan are a step toward an even more lethal generation of robotic hunt...

Walking, Talking Robot Will Make Debut At Japanese Fashion Show

AP | YURI KAGEYAMA | Posted 04.16.2009 | World


TSUKUBA, Japan — A new walking, talking robot from Japan has a female face that can smile and has trimmed down to 43 kilograms (95 pounds) to ma...

Tomorrow's Info Today: Staying Ahead of the News Cycle

Randall Amster | Posted 04.12.2009 | Media


Randall Amster

From now on, I will only get my news from future-based sources, and thus seek to remain ahead of the curve. Outlandish, you say? Impossible? You are obviously so behind the times.

Jason Linkins

Scritti Politti: March 5, 2009

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.05.2009 | Politics


Burning up my inbox today is news of this story from the Charlotte News and Observer, about an anti-gay marriage rally in Raleigh. It contains thes...

Robots Now Driving Some New York City Trains

nypress.com | Posted 04.17.2009 | Green


Mass transit developments abound this week -- this time, it's the most futuristic-sounding item yet. New York subway trains along one line will be dri...

Roombas Of Doom: How Vacuum Cleaners Will Kill Us All (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 03.14.2009 | Comedy


For the latest installment of "Future Shock," Samantha Bee sat down with Colin Angle, the CEO of iRobot and creator of the Roomba, who received nearly...