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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.

ASIMO Tears Up the Dancefloor at His 10th Birthday Bash

ASIMO Tears Up the Dancefloor at His 10th Birthday Bash

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShhatJB8xyk Morning, all - or, afternoon, as it were. I trust your Halloween was both hollow and weeny? Mine sure...

Mad Scientist Dooms Us All With Self-Replicating Lego Menace, Or Something

Mad Scientist Dooms Us All With Self-Replicating Lego Menace, Or Something

This is just downright threatening. Software engineer Will Gorman has seen fit to play god and create a robot out...

Rock-em, Sock-em Robot Beats Up Volunteers In the Name of Science

Rock-em, Sock-em Robot Beats Up Volunteers In the Name of Science

Six Slovenian volunteers have been undergoing a bizarre test: being punched in the arm over, and over, and over, and...

No Pirates, Princesses, or Pokémon, Please

No Pirates, Princesses, or Pokémon, Please

What's your kid wearing for Halloween? He's not going as Batman, is he? I see, like, a trillion child Batmans...

Because There’s Always Room For More Gundams

Because There’s Always Room For More Gundams

I have a couple friends who are big into building scale models of Gundams. I've never really understood the appeal...

A Retweeting Twitter Bot That Knows It Serves No Actual Purpose

A Retweeting Twitter Bot That Knows It Serves No Actual Purpose

One of the great things about Twitter is that it's actually pretty easy to control and inhibit spam. SEO people...

German Researchers Take Gaming Peripherals to Their Logical Conclusion

German Researchers Take Gaming Peripherals to Their Logical Conclusion

Microsoft's Kinect would have you believe that no controller is the way of the future for gaming. Microsoft's Kinect would...

When Digital Distribution Becomes Art

When Digital Distribution Becomes Art

You know what's too cool? This is. In an exploration of digital content delivery, record label Ghostly International is debuting...

Death-Fearing Millionaire Commissions Immortal Robot – No, Really

Death-Fearing Millionaire Commissions Immortal Robot – No, Really

If you're not good and rested, take a nap before continuing with this article - because you're never gonna sleep...

Beer with Robots: The Best Thing Since Beer without Robots

Beer with Robots: The Best Thing Since Beer without Robots

Concerned less with bettering mankind so much as revelry, the team at Willow Garage has spent what I can only...

Groping People In Second Life Is About To Get Way More Real

Groping People In Second Life Is About To Get Way More Real

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxlYY0xo4gk So, okay. It's possible that feeling up a virtual hottie is not quite what the designers of this incredible...

‘Aggressive’ Helicopter is Possibly the Scariest Flying Robot Ever

‘Aggressive’ Helicopter is Possibly the Scariest Flying Robot Ever

Huh. Well this sure is scary as hell. Remember Big Dog? This is every bit as terrifying, only this one...

The Cutest Robot You’ve Ever Feared

The Cutest Robot You’ve Ever Feared

Hey, y'know Bait Car? Bait Car is great. Bait Car is frequently hilarious. Bait Car comes from Canada. Bait Car...

The Nerf Sentry Gun: Because Real Guns Just Aren’t Safe Anymore

The Nerf Sentry Gun: Because Real Guns Just Aren’t Safe Anymore

I'm really stoked about all the cool Arduino stuff I'm seeing lately. Remember the Twitter lamp I rapped about last...

Robotic Pancreas Makes Diabetes Sufferers Into Cyborgs

Robotic Pancreas Makes Diabetes Sufferers Into Cyborgs

I've always been terrified by diabetes. Not that I'm at any risk or anything, it's just the thought of living...

This Week in Robots: Japanese Couple Says ‘iDo’

This Week in Robots: Japanese Couple Says ‘iDo’

Techi is honor-bound to offer you totally rad (and routinely bizarre) things to read about, and I for one don't...

Mini-ITX Test Bench Looks Like a Transformer

Mini-ITX Test Bench Looks Like a Transformer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=052l5ESJDKQ&feature=player_embedded#! This robotic creature transforms into a Mini-ITX test bench.  The four adjustable legs create a spider-like effect. Designer Lian...

Tiniest. Robots. EVER.

Tiniest. Robots. EVER.

I've been hearing this concept tossed around for years now, but apparently, it has now happened: Science (and may I...

Fujitsu Bear Redefines Terror, Comforts Your Grandma

Fujitsu Bear Redefines Terror, Comforts Your Grandma

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r0zSCVMaiM You know what? I think you've had enough sleep. In fact, I think you've had enough sleep for the...

Dancing Robots, Way Cooler Than It Sounds

Dancing Robots, Way Cooler Than It Sounds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXMnbNoccgA I'll admit, I was skeptical when I saw the title of this video. I assumed I was in for...