Terrorists, beware. Starscream is coming for you. Or at least, he will be; the next step is a full robot form. This is a CGI simulation of the first F-35B STOVL flight, which requires no runway to land or take off. Awesome.

Scientists have managed to take brain tissue from lab rats and grow it around the electrodes that control this robot.  Freaked out?  Have a good weekend!

Fark TV usually makes satire pieces, but this is real, and the man with the grey hair and glasses is for real.  He made a robot to scare away bums from his neighborhood.  Check out a Colbert Report report on the same BumBot h...

You must have heard this past week about the neurolgy breakthrough that enabled a lab monkey to control a robotic arm entirely through his mind.  This installment of "Science News" digs deeper and allows Dr. Henry Alpert (...

Are you serious?  You really have THAT much time on your hands to pull off stunts like this.  You could be finishing up your thesis, starting up your own company, or finding a cure for AIDS, but no.  You decided that THIS was...

Not only did someone make this Humvee into a working Transformer, but they also gave the mini-robot some rhythm so it's too busy getting its groove on to destroy mankind. We even get a few minutes of Humvee cam at the end....

This robot could make a few bucks in Time Square doing caricatures for tourists! It scans your face and then draws an old-school portrait with its fountain pen. Okay, maybe it's just a fancy printer, but its humanoid behavior...

Finally, a chair that does all the work! This student animation project from the Design Academy Eindhoven turns chairs into little robots that anticipate your need to sit. Lazy workers of the world, unite!

The detail is astounding in this CG animation clip. A machine with a doll's face tries to achieve the ultimate beauty by mimicking images off the television. "Doll Face" represents society's false desire for perfection....

Sure, our fighting forces our physically fit, but they're no match for the heavy-lifting a soldier can unleash while wearing an incredibly complex robotic exoskeleton. (Not too mention the speedbag-punching, heel-walking,...

Those Daft Punk-loving kids continue to showcase their ingenuity and dexterity in support of the ubiquitous "Harder Better Faster Stronger." This tribute takes the phenomenon to a whole new level of choreography and...

Don't waste time trying to make a friend when you can just build one! The Japanese system "U-Tsu-Shi-O-Mi" lets you physically interact with an avatar through a life-like robot. The technology is very impressive, but it's...

Here's the debut episode of the video series from the uber-bloggers of BoingBoing featuring highlights from their site. Mark introduces us to a few "Visions of the Future" and Xeni covers "Listography" with a quirky tech...

The irresistable robo-dance-blob Keepon, creation of Hideki Kozima and Marek Michalowski, has returned to groove to a new Spoon song ("Don't You Evah"), tour a little bit of Japan, and promote the WIRED NextFest. It's a lot...

Automated-phone technology has made everything from checking bank account balances to buying movies tickets quick and simple. Who needs live customer support when you can have a computer help you instead? Well, this poor guy...