By Evan Ackerman
On BotJunkie this week, we started things off with a video of a robotic chair that you control by pointing where you want it to go, heard with a raised eyebrow or two that WowWee's Robosapien is...
By Evan Ackerman
If you aren't checking BotJunkie every day, you're guaranteed to be among the first to be assimilated when the robots take over. We got introduced to some gigantic CV08 robots that will use chubby suburbanites as fuel...
By Evan Ackerman
Over on BotJunkie this week, we kicked things off in style and watched some video of a cute little DIY CrabFu SwashBot take on an equally cute kitty in a battle of weirdness, got a little misty...
We have come a long way since the 3Doodler - the 3D printing pen, surprised the world by raising over $2 million on Kickstarter. One thing that has changed for good since then is that some of the most...
By Evan Ackerman
This week on BotJunkie, we started the week listening to me gush about a sneak preview of Wall-E that I snuck into at Pixar (verdict: best robot movie ever); learned about a new strategy for herding cattle...
By Evan Ackerman
This week over on BotJunkie, we started out by meeting a little Lego Mindstorms bot named Phobot who's terrified of big things, found out that it's a lot easier to give commands to robots if they're capable...
You might remember Robosaurus, created 17 years ago by Monster Robots in Southern California. The 40-foot-high, 31-ton behemoth quickly became famous for crushing cars and breathing fire all over the country, before dwelling in the land of obscurity. Apparently,...
By David Ponce
Our own Evan is in San Francisco, covering Arse Elektronika, an Austrian sex and technology seminar. One of the first exhibits of the show was "F**Zilla", a robotic sex machine outfitted with a conveyor belt made...