Robots are made to assist us—to manipulate and improve upon our environments and, ideally, make our lives easier. But in the history of robotic development there have been as many epic fails as ...

Useless robots (or useless machines) are devices that, when switched on, exist only to turn themselves back off. They are fun and fairly simple builds that are easy to personify, and really invite ...

And while they're technically adept — they do work — they don't actually work very well. Giertz has found fame online via her useless robots, including one that's been viewed more than a million times ...

Useless robots (or useless machines) are devices that, when switched on, exist only to turn themselves back off. They are fun and fairly simple builds that are easy to personify, and really invite ...

Last fall, the New York City Police Department deployed a robot dubbed K5 at the highly trafficked 42nd Street subway station in Times Square. The 400-pound, five-foot-three automaton, built by ...

Sony’s Aibo robot dog is a bit different. Aibo was first introduced in 1999, with new models launched each year. They were what they sounded like: cute robot dogs that behaved like real dogs that kept ...

I don’t know how things are in your country, but here where I live some gas stations have employees whose single job is to step in and fuel the car for you. It’s a job like any other, I guess, but in ...

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Rating: 5/10, Slightly more helpful than a toddler. Most of the robots Tomy churned out in the ‘80s looked like toys and acted like toys, but its Omnibot 2000 felt like it was straight out of science ...

Despite being out for less than a year, Amazon has announced that its Astro patrol robot for small and medium businesses will be bricked at the end of August. First reported by GeekWire, this sad news ...

Automaker Toyota Motor Corp. is planning to release a four-inch-tall humanoid communication robot called Kirobo Mini. Besides speaking in a high-pitched voice, there’s not much else the bot can do. It ...

A Swedish inventor has found a following with her quirky mechanical creations, even if they don't work as you'd imagine. Simone Giertz makes robots. And while they're technically adept — they do work ...