And before anyone freaks out, man, the obvious rhetorical answer is… maybe.

The Baca Robo ("stupid robot") Contest was started back in 2007 by art team Maywa Denki (that's one of them playing a traditional Hungarian song with their "otamatone" invention at the beginning of the video below).

‘Tis the season for our favorite holidays, but nobody in the automotive industry gives a hoot about any of your Christmas, Hanukah or Wiccan Samhain wishes or celebrations, because ‘tis also the season for experts and industry analysts to begin naming their Cars of the Year for 2011.

If you ever had aspirations of robbing a McDonald's in Europe and are squeemish about bioengineering, you might want to think again, as they've started equipping them with a new security system that douses would-be robbers with a dose of "artificial DNA.

A group of European scientists have developed the first prototype robot capable of developing emotions from interacting with humans.