robots

Meet Spot, an advanced mobile robot who's main function is sensing, surveillance, inspection and remote operation. At least that's the job it's suppose to do until it breaks free of it's programming and goes on a murderous rampage.

No, it won't be an invasion of Transformers on Saturday, instead the Robotics Education and Competition Foundation is taking over the Great Plains Coliseum on Saturday for the 2017 Oklahoma VEX State Championship.

The day had finally arrived were technology has advanced to the point where a person can own their own robot! Not just any robot, JIBO the world's first family robot. Unlike a lot of the other attempts at robotics in the past, JIBO is actually very useful and has all kinds of real world possibilities.

We all know that Apple was founded when Steve Jobs took a technicolor trip through a forest and was bonked on the head with a Newtonian Apple logo of inspiration, before going on to literally give birth to a bulky Macintosh computer. Well, that’s how Taiwanese animation team Next Media Animation remembers it at least.

While scientists have yet to perfect artificial intelligence, they’ve at least perfected artificial beer preference. When it comes to brewskies, this thirsty robot named DARwIn-OP know what it likes — the folks who built him over at Trossen Robotics actually programmed him to have a drink of choice. Given the option, the little guy will ignore a can of Bud Light and go for a cold Tecate every time