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BB-8 Gets His Heart Broken in the New Poe Dameron Comic - Though many of Star Wars’ sentient droids communicate non-verbally, they’ve got a reputation for being able to experience and convey the full spectrum of human emotions from elation to powerful... ow.ly/IW0Z50gX3dX

This Iron Man-Inspired Robot With Jet-Powered Feet Is a Master of the Splits - Robotics engineers at Guangdong University of Technology’s School of Automation in China are bringing us one step—albeit a much larger step—closer to realizing Tony Stark’s... ow.ly/ZvO550gVEig

Richest Person in the World Takes Robot Dog For a Walk, Which is Totally Fine and Normal - There are some people who might take one look at this photo of Jeff Bezos, the richest man in the world, and freak the hell out. The Amazon founder is walking w... ow.ly/vo2950gVwJm

Engineer Thinks Star Wars Will Inspire the Next Generation of NASA Robots - Star Wars might take place a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away—but for one NASA research engineer, it’s also a sign of things to come. A new article in Science Robotics... ow.ly/ETD250gRWjh

Scientists Create a Way for People With Amputations to Feel Their Prosthetic Hands - Prosthetic hands have gotten increasingly sophisticated. Many can recreate the complex shape and detail of joints and fingers, while powered prostheses allow for inde... ow.ly/wn6U50gQVtt

This Lego Pacific Rim Uprising Trailer Un-Cancels the Apocalypse With Thousands of Bricks - We’re already excited for what will undoubtedly be another giant robot smashapalooza when Pacific Rim Uprising hits theaters on March 23. But then someone went... ow.ly/5AGe50gP5SX

Planet Earth Parody Imagines a World Overrun by Creepy Boston Dynamics Robots - In any of Earth’s other parallel timelines, Nicolas King’s parody of the Planet Earth documentary series, showing our planet overrun with migrating herds of Boston Dynamic... ow.ly/e8LS50gMTBC

Watch This Machine Solve a Rubik's Cube Faster Than My Jaw Can Drop - About a year ago last march, a robot called the Sub1 solved a Rubik’s Cube in 0.637-seconds, earning it the Guinness World Record for being the fastest cube-solving bot. That honor ... ow.ly/ntsg50gLelu

Facebook Patents Self-Balancing Robot, and It's Anyone's Best Guess Why - Earlier today, Facebook filed a patent for “a self-balancing robot that transitions from a three-wheeled mode to a two-wheeled self-balancing mode” with the United States Patent... ow.ly/lvHN50gKkhK

The Method-2 Looks as Menacing as Ever, But You Could Probably Still Defeat It With a Shallow Incline - Humans may remain pathetic creatures of meat and bone, but the era of the almighty humanoid terminator is not yet upon us. CNBC recently got an opp... ow.ly/D5nn50gIQBN

Drones Replace Models at Milan Fashion Week After 45-Minute Technical Delay - No one is safe from being replaced by a robot in 2018. Not even fashion models, it seems. Read more... ow.ly/tF9I50gDJhb

A Guy With a Hockey Stick Is the Only Thing Stopping Door-Opening Robots From Escaping - If last week’s video of Boston Dynamic’s SpotMini robo-dog opening doors all by itself had you worried, don’t be. The bot’s creators have done everything possible... ow.ly/5jQM50gzwWw

I Love Watching These Self-Balancing Boxing Robots Beat Each Other Into Submission - The self-balancing technology that powered the overhyped disappointment that was the Segway is finally living up to its full potential with Hexbug’s new VEX Battling ... ow.ly/HEui50gwzWJ

Freaky Flea-Like Robots Could One Day Flip and Tumble Inside Your Body - These tiny, flipping microbots, currently being developed by researchers at Purdue University, could one day deliver drugs directly inside the body. The magnetically propelled bo... ow.ly/Xjge50gwmHT

You Need to Watch the Mysterious Trailer for Janelle Monáe's New Album Dirty Computer Right Now - It’s been a while since we last heard from Cindi Mayweather, but the Archandroid has a new message for all of her believers. It also happens to come with... ow.ly/EfrZ50gwmHU

These New Transformers Cyberverse Figures Are Fantastic Callbacks to the Original '80s Toys - The Transformers have been reborn again and again since the toys first hit America in 1984, including appearances in several animated series. But if you grew... ow.ly/JqBC50gvvzo

I Can't Stop Laughing at These Ski Robots Falling Down - If you saw that video of a robot skillfully opening a door yesterday, you might think that the robot uprising is just around the corner. But this new video of skiing robots falling on their face... ow.ly/vhOK50gtFXo

A Fun Optical Illusion Makes This Robotic Doodler Appear to Draw Faster Than It Moves - Although clearly a clever artist in his own right, James Nolan Gandy shows that even the artistically-challenged can produce a masterpiece with some clever enginee... ow.ly/aCTO50gtjPG

Boston Dynamics’ Unsettling Robodog Can Now Escape Through (Unlocked) Doors - The first time we saw Boston Dynamics’ SpotMini robo-dog in action, it used its gripping arm to help load a dishwasher. But after getting a fancy new yellow coat a few month... ow.ly/rkYw50gt89o

Watch How Pixar Brought One of the Best Scenes in Wall-E to Life - Given how Wall-E largely focuses on robots that don’t communicate the way humans do, you might think you know what to expect from the script for Pixar’s animated classic. But, surprise... ow.ly/bc3x50gpDXr