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WyzeRobot vacuums, smart watches, smart bulbs, home security, noise canceling headphones—it’s starting to feel like there’s nothing Wyze doesn’t make. Now it’s adding another new item to the list. Wyze just opened up pre-orders for its new $30 Smart Floor Lamp. But this one feels different. WyzeWyze says its smart floor…

Michael Reeves took one of the most advanced robots ever designed and taught it to pee beer. Or, more specifically, he programmed it to locate cups and fill them up with beer. From a tube. Where it's genitals would be. So, yeah, he taught a Boston Dynamics Spot robot to…

Sign up for the Guardian Today US newsletter Domino’s Pizza and Nuro, a Silicon Valley startup, said on Monday they will launch a robotic pizza delivery service in Houston this week as they seek to satisfy increasing online orders during the pandemic. With small, low-speed vehicles to carry packages instead…

The titular narrator of Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro’s new novel, is a robot. This isn’t spoiler—this revelation comes early in the book. Klara is an Artificial Friend, a lifelike but nevertheless mechanical companion for children: amalgam of sibling, plaything, and nursemaid. When we meet her, she’s inventory in…

After decades of legal disputes, the influential anime and film series “Macross” will be released worldwide for the first time. If the name sounds familiar, it’s better known in western markets by the title of its American remake “Robotech”. Like many other cartoons from the 1980s, including “Battle of the…

This Optimus Prime can transform, walk and drive all by itself Hasbro has a wild new Optimus Prime Transformers toy that can walk, drive and transform all by itself. The toy-maker joined forces with China-based Robosen Robotics to make Optimus Prime, a $699 USD (roughly $875.81 CAD) collectors edition toy.…

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The products discussed here were independently chosen by our editors. GameSpot may get a share of the revenue if you buy anything featured on our site. Now you can spend more than a PS5 or Xbox Series X on an Optimus Prime figure that transforms itself. Hasbro announced the high-tech…

look at all those smiles! You'd like to help them keep smiling...wouldn't you?Folks, I'm copy/pasting @thatpinguino's lovely forum post to make sure it's on the homepage and everyone knows that this weekend is the Community Endurance Run! We'll be live all weekend, starting after UPF! Abby has some plans to…

Boston Dynamics robotic dog Spot was one of several robots tested by the French army during training sessions at a military school in the northwest of France, The Verge and France Ouest have reported. It was used during a two-day training session with the aim of "measuring the added value…