Robot servants to fill our cars with gas

Everyone still complaining about the demise of full-service gas stations, take note: a Dutch scientist has developed a robotic arm that can pump gas, allowing the driver to stay comfortably behind the wheel. Look for these gas-bots to keep filling up our tanks until they achieve sentience and rise up and enslave us or we run out of oil - whichever comes first. ... read more

Rubik's Cube-solving robot still can't beat humanity's best

Supercomputers may routinely beat human grandmasters at chess, but, as this video shows, there's one game of skill where the best organic brain can still beat a machine: the Rubik's cube. We think perhaps a bit too much effort was put into the robot's flashing lights and not enough into its AI. ...read more