We have an update to those rumors about the presence of Rodents of Unusual Size in New York City.

Oh yeah, yeah, the kids love it.

Did you read our post earlier about the creepy telepresence spermbot and think, "If only it were small enough to hold in my hand and/or orifices and also I'm not completely insane".

The elderly have a hard enough time, as is, trying to keep their dignity in this world, so I have no idea why Japan's Kanou Masayoshi would try to make things any more confusing for them than it already unfortunately is.

Five roboticists at National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan have trained an actuated arm to play basketball.

Three researchers at Osaka University (Hisashi Ishihara, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, and Minoru Asada) built this nightmare fuel called "Affeto", which is Japanese for "have fun buying new pants, RoboPanda" [citation needed].

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Spectrum tells us this snake robot "goes where humans can't", which sounds like a threat.

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