I read a story a long time ago (I forget the author or even the title) that talked about a world that evolved on one of the moons of Jupiter – it was an entire ecosystem that mirrored our own consisting entirely of robots.  I’ll refrain from synopsizing the entire plot here, but it sparked my imagination at the time, because it made it seem entirely plausible. Things like these robots only...

In other robot news, Optimus Prime does the top 10 on Letterman. [h/t: Deadline Hollywood via Sean]

I’ve always wanted a robot that makes coffee.  As a short film, this is fascinating. Something tells me that this requires a bit of supervision to make sure the task is completed properly, though.

At some point, I’m going to do a roundup post of all the various forms of artistic robots there are, or at least the ones that I’ve come across in my travels.  I’ve personally witnessed several AI’s capable of poetry.  I’ve seen more than a few robots capable of creating original works of art. Today, Gizmodo brings us a robot that can play improvisational jazz: As you'll see in...

Sean Kennedy’s NewsReal today points to a TED Talk from P.W. Singer that explores our Ender’s Game-esque future. The idea that video games are training our children to be soldiers is a bit over the top, at least in my view. The way the military engineers a UAV is completely ass-backward compared to the ease of use built into most game controls.  Until bureaucracy and the good ol’ boy network...

According to a report by Steven Hodson over at Inquisitr, “Adam the Robot” has carried out and successfully completed “scientific research automatically without human intervention.” It’s actually just an interesting spin on something that’s likely been happening for quite some time, at least as I understand the process as it’s being described in the abstract Steven references: The basis...

This is actually fairly old news, as it turns out, but SmarterChild, one of the most widely known and used Chatterbox AI’s has passed on. Perhaps a better analogy would be to say that he’s on life support. Whenever you query the bot, you get the same uniform answer: “My brain is retired but watch some cool videos! Send an IM to GossipinGabby and Type VIDEO!” I feel a little, well, close...

 I’m more or less convinced my youngest son (seen above) is the real world incarnation of Stewie, from Family Guy.  He’s surprisingly smart, and has an expression most of the time that belies some sort of secret attempt to take over the world. Which is why I can’t ever take him to the Nagoya Institute of Technology. There, they have the ultimate device designed for young evil geniuses....

I found a great collection of robot art to stimulate the mind put together by a 3D modeler named Franz Steiner. roboart Enjoy the slideshow, and feel free to click through to get the high resolution versions.

DVICE has an interesting concept bot up today: We're all for a future where robots deliver us packages quickly and efficiently, and that's exactly what the Cargonaut is programmed to do. Thought up by German-based industrial designer Matthias Schmiedbauer, an army of the robo-copters would be able to buzz around an urban center, bypassing traffic and delivering a package straight to you. Or from...