Mad Science Fridays: The Japanese Built a Robo-Ass

What’s weird in science this week?

• Oh, look, the Japanese built a robot ass. And it reacts properly to being touched and slapped. Awwww, we get closer to sex bots every year!
• Scientists want to make you less flabby by burning more “brown fat”.
• This creepy starfish uses four of its legs to walk, and the other one as a “head”.
• The island of Crete used to be populated by adorably teeny tiny little “mammoths”.
• Woody Allen’s whining might actually wind up in the DSM. Seriously.
• Science has invented genes we can trigger by remote control.
• Flickr can serve as a weather forecaster, with the right statistical models and analysis.
• Vesta, an asteroid, turns out to be an endangered rock.

Anything we missed? Let us know in the comments!

image courtesy Fox