Learning to ride a bike all by yourself is a big step in growing up. For robots, however, it means being getting redesigned as an all new model.
Dr Guero took the Kondo KHR-3HV and upgraded it to ride a bike. Clearly it’s only a matter of time before Lil’ BikeTron 5000 achieves sentience and enslaves humanity.
It seems as though teens have taken the flash mob to a new and criminal level by planning events called “flash robs,” during which they run screaming into a store, steal things in a frenzied mass and run out as quickly as they came in.
Scientists in Japan have developed a machine which mimics the sensation you get from an open-mouth French kiss.
According to researcher Nobuhiro Takahash, one of the goals of the project is to allow two people to make out without even necessarily being in the same room.
Taiwan isn't exactly a basketball power, but that could all change if the rules of the game are amended to allow giant robot seals onto the court.
For some reason, Taiwanese engineers have constructed a robotic seal that can throw a basketball through a hoop with 99 percent accuracy from ten feet out.
The video is below the jump (and begins where the robot seal starts hitting two-pointers).
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