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 ...

Rating: 3/10, Cute but mostly useless. For a lot of ‘80s kids, Radio Shack provided their first real experience with a robot. Tandy Electronics’ Robie Junior was closer to an RC toy than an actual ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: 7/10, Educational and fun. What defines a robot? Does it have to look like a humanoid or a recognizable animal, or does it simply have to be a machine that can execute a series of instructions ...