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The Invention area showcases advancements in robotics, drones, and cutting-edge devices, celebrating futuristic technology. It serves as a platform for innovative ideas that have the potential to completely alter how we work, live, and engage with the world.

Cell Phone Robots Make Calling Out Really Bulky and Awkward, But Are Totally Adorable

Cell Phone Robots Make Calling Out Really Bulky and Awkward, But Are Totally Adorable

Robots, man. Freaking robots. Your robotic fix today comes from PhD student Ji-Dong Yim, who has built two cell phone...

The Droid Really Is All That: Commands Lego, Solves Rubik’s Cube

The Droid Really Is All That: Commands Lego, Solves Rubik’s Cube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZWoAHS120g This isn't the first Rubik's-cube-solving Lego robot that's been viral in the last few months, nor is it the...

Stephen Hawking Tells Us How To Build A Time Machine

Stephen Hawking Tells Us How To Build A Time Machine

How many times have you wished you had a time machine so you could go back and do something a...

Severed Biomechanical Arm Gives New Meaning to ‘Robot Rock’

Severed Biomechanical Arm Gives New Meaning to ‘Robot Rock’

Chris Conte knows how to rock and roll. Or at least how to build machines that can assist in the...

Big Dog Robot Can Jog Up To 5mph With Your Groceries

Big Dog Robot Can Jog Up To 5mph With Your Groceries

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNZPRsrwumQ&feature=player_embedded Don’t feel like carrying all of your heavy bags anymore? Let Big Dog do it for you. Big Dog...

Farmer’s Homemade Robots Pour Drinks, Chop Food, Paint, and More

Farmer’s Homemade Robots Pour Drinks, Chop Food, Paint, and More

Chinese farmer turned inventor, Wu Yulu, is finally getting some recognition after designing and building homemade robots. Yulu has faced...

Robot Trainers Bring Hope to Stroke Patients

Robot Trainers Bring Hope to Stroke Patients

A study done by a group of researchers from Brown University in Rhode Island showed that intensive therapy using a...

Self-Driving GM EN-V May Change Transportation, Still Looks Funny

Self-Driving GM EN-V May Change Transportation, Still Looks Funny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_C6JRIQmPsg Alright, I'll be honest - last time I wrote about the GM EN-V vehicle, I ridiculed it for its...

Plants Beat Humans to Cyborg Status

Plants Beat Humans to Cyborg Status

Mexican artist Gilberto Esparza is helping nature take it all back. Esparza has created the Planta Nomada, a hybrid plant/robot...

Robotic Suit Grants Superhuman Strength, Possibly Revolutionizes… Radish Farming?

Robotic Suit Grants Superhuman Strength, Possibly Revolutionizes… Radish Farming?

You may have heard about Shigeki Toyama and his Power Assist Suit before. Of course, there's every likelihood you haven't....

One of Many Reasons That LEGOs Will Always Be Cool

One of Many Reasons That LEGOs Will Always Be Cool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHWDSnWk2jU What do you get when you have a few guys with a lot of time on their hands and...

Shawarma Slicing Robot Built for Safety First, World Domination Second

Shawarma Slicing Robot Built for Safety First, World Domination Second

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H65o8uSmKz8 If you've ever wandered the streets of Berlin or Munich, then you know that shwarmas (or doners as they...

Human or Robot? Soon We Won’t Be Able To Tell

Human or Robot? Soon We Won’t Be Able To Tell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KF2E_K37B0 You have got to love the Japanese. They come up with the coolest tech gadgets, and they also come...

Cute? It’s Un-bear-able!

Cute? It’s Un-bear-able!

Big brother has been watching us all for some time, but Big Brother Bear is a step too far. As...

Robot Waiters Efficiently Conquer Service Industry, Thai Food

Robot Waiters Efficiently Conquer Service Industry, Thai Food

Themed restaurants are all the rage these days - heck, even Kim Jong Il has a line of establishments with...

Plant-o-Bot Concept Inspires With Environmental Message, Cuteness

Plant-o-Bot Concept Inspires With Environmental Message, Cuteness

Sometimes, it's a little hard to listen to dry, good-for-you messages about environmentalism. But a robot? That's cute? Where I...

One Step Closer to Terminator: Salvation Day

One Step Closer to Terminator: Salvation Day

Pictured above, an unmanned drone taken from the military blog Armybase.us. Washington's unmanned drone airplanes will not just be Washington's...

Spike Jonze Proves Robots Can Love

Spike Jonze Proves Robots Can Love

Spike Jonze has teamed up with Absolut v***a to present ‘I’m Here’, a touching short film about robots in love....

Yet Another Thing a Robot Can Do Better than You: Art

Yet Another Thing a Robot Can Do Better than You: Art

Not to come off as a robotics nut, but I’m not letting this one get away and sleeping comfortably tonight....

New Dental Patient Robot Confirms Everything Japan Does is Kind of Creepy

New Dental Patient Robot Confirms Everything Japan Does is Kind of Creepy

Meet Hanako. Hanako is a collaboration between three Japanese universities and robotics company Tmsuk. And, quite frankly, Hanako is creepy...