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Beauty
Behind TikTok’s creepy ‘uncanny valley’ makeup trend
First coined by roboticist Masahiro Mori, “uncanny valley” describes the discomfort people feel when faced with entities that ar...
Ryan General
Study
Socially connected people are likelier to see robots as having human traits: study
New research has found that individuals who are more connected socially are likely to experience robot anthropomorphism, or humans viewing r...
Bryan Ke
Japanese scientists grow living, self-healing human skin that can be put on robots
Scientists have developed living human skin for robots that looks and moves like real skin. The skin is also capable of self-repair and rep...
Rebecca Moon
News
Smaller than a flea: Northwestern engineers create the world’s smallest remote-controlled walking robots
Engineers at Northwestern University developed the world’s smallest remote-controlled, walking robots. The robots, which are about half a ...
Sports
Japanese robotics company solves empty stadium dilemma with 100-humanoid-robot cheerleading squad
The official Instagram account of Guinness World Records has posted a video of 100 humanoid robots performing a synchronized cheerleading ro...
Michelle De Pacina
Robots Take Over Korean Burger Restaurant to Keep Social Distancing
In a bid to minimize person-to-person interaction during the COVID-19 pandemic, a burger joint in South Korea is replacing human staffers wi...
Technology
Japanese Stores Now Use Robot Workers to Stock Empty Shelves
Convenience stores in Japan are now deploying remote-controlled robots that can stock empty shelves with bottled drinks and other items. &nb...
American and German Robots Lose Jobs to Asian Robots at Adidas
Adidas will abandon its robot-staffed factories in the U.S. and Germany, moving some of the technology to Asia starting later this year. The...
Carl Samson
Politics
Here’s What Andrew Yang Will Talk About at the 2020 Democratic Debates in June
Come June, Andrew Yang will be talking about the threat of automation on the American workforce in the first Democratic primary debate. Ear...
Asia
Singles Sit in Silence as Robots Do The Talking at Speed-Dating Parties in Japan
Multiple singles participating in a recent speed-dating party in Japan were able to find their match with the help of some robot assistants....
China Recruits Their Brightest Children to Help Develop ‘Killer Robots’
A group composed of China’s brightest students will soon begin their training to build weapons that harness artificial intelligence. The stu...
Beijing Unleashes Robot Police During Holiday Week to Scan Everyone’s Face
A special force of robot police was deployed in Beijing to assist human officers and ensure public safety during the National Holiday Week i...
China is Now Using These Yellow Robots to Deliver Packages to People
Yellow robots equipped with cameras, GPS, and a radar are being called the future of logistics in China. The robots, about the size of a sma...
New Chinese Restaurant of the Future is 100% Run By Robots
Japanese netizens are in awe of a futuristic restaurant in China which appears to be completely run by robots. A video shared by Twitter use...
Singaporean Scientists Taught a Robot to Build IKEA Furniture Better Than Humans
Scientists from Singapore managed to teach a pair of robotic arms to put together a chair from Ikea. The study, published in Science Robotic...
Robotics Prodigy Graduates From Houston University With Engineering Degree at 17
Nicolas Xiong entered the University of Houston when he was only 13 years old about four years ago. Yesterday, the Asian American prodigy e...
South Korea’s Olympic Torch Run is Extra AF
South Korea’s famous walking humanoid robot “HUBO” is one of the lucky few who get to carry and pass the torch for the 2018 Winter Olympics ...
Japanese AI Robot Takes University Entrance Exam, Exposes Alarming Flaw in Human Education
A robot with an advanced artificial intelligence bested 80% of human students in the recent Tokyo University entrance exam. Interestingly, ...
1,069 Dancing Robots Set New Guinness World Record in China
The Guinness World Record for having the most robots dancing simultaneously has been officially broken in China with 1,069 dancing robots. T...
Japanese Sumo Robots Can Wrestle By Themselves and It’s Scary AF
Japan’s national sport of sumo wrestling could be taken over by robots in the age of technology. Traditional sumo involves two large men pus...
Khier Casino
Business
Billionaire Jack Ma Says the World is Basically Screwed for the Next 30 Years
Alibaba chairman Jack Ma has an unsettling warning for the world: pain will rule in the coming decades. It’s as if we’re not hav...
Chinese Engineer ‘Marries’ AI Robot After Having No Luck With Women
Chinese engineer Zheng Jiajia felt so lonely after not having any luck finding a human wife that he decided to marry a robot he built. The 3...
Fukushima’s Radiation is So Deadly Even Robots Can’t Survive After Exposure
Cleaning up the mess at Fukushima has proven to be a tough task even for Japan’s robots as high radiation levels in the site repeatedly caus...
Chinese Factory Replaces 90% Of Its Workers With Robots, Productivity Increases 250%
A factory in Dongguan, China, does not regret laying off almost all of its people in favor of artificial intelligence. Changying Precision T...
Chinese Farmer Builds a Whole ‘Family’ Out of 63 Fully-Functional Robots From Scraps
A Chinese farmer/inventor, who taught himself to build unique operational robots has created an impressive family of machines made entirely ...
Robots, Not the Chinese, Are Taking American Factory Jobs
Factory production in America has maintained a steady growth over the past few decades, making the country No. 2 in the world just behind pr...
Robot Sex Conference Banned in Malaysia Moves to London
The international conference on sex robots previously slated to be held in the Malaysia will now be moved to London after the country banned...
China Just Opened Its Very First Robot Store
China’s first robot store opened last week and shoppers have already been flocking to the unique shop to check out the variety of arti...
Stanford Mall Security Robot Viciously Attacks Toddler, Then Tries to Finish the Job
A mall security robot, reportedly knocked down and ran over a toddler at a Palo Alto shopping mall on Thursday to the horror of the parents ...
This Chinese Robot is Said to Be ‘The Most Realistic Ever Made’
A humanoid named Jia Jia has been attracting a lot of attention at the 2016 Summer Davos Forum in Tianjin, China. The robot is the same size...
Editorial Staff
Interviews
Why this CEO Wants Everyone to Have a Human-Like Robot for Less than an iPad
In case you were concerned, robots will not be taking over the world any time soon. By the time you are older, however, you may be seeing th...
Man Becomes Cyborg After Fusing Antenna Into His Skull to Hear Sound
I predicted the cyborg-human war in as early as October — because the prediction is unique and I want credit for it — and it now...
Alan Van