I met Olaf — the Frozen robot who might be the future of Disney Parks

I think the answer is that Olaf — coming to Disneyland Paris on March 26th and Hong Kong Disneyland this summer — is the rare robot that crosses the uncanny valley as long as ...
Hackaday

Robot Looks Exactly Like A Roll Of Filament, If Filament Had Eyes

[Matt Denton]’s SpoolBot is a surprisingly agile remote-controlled robot that doesn’t just repurpose filament spool leftovers. It looks exactly like a 2 kg spool of filament; that’s real filament ...
UPI

Hyundai Motor donates unmanned firefighting robots

Feb. 25 (Asia Today) --Hyundai Motor Group said Tuesday it has donated four unmanned firefighting robots to the National Fire Agency, expanding its long-running support for firefighters from ...
Wired

Government Docs Reveal New Details About Tesla and Waymo Robotaxis’ Human Babysitters

Are self-driving vehicles really just big, remote-controlled cars, with nameless and faceless people in far-off call centers piloting the things from behind consoles? As the vehicles and their science ...
Inc

Using an AI Tool, 1 Owner Accidentally Controlled Thousands of Robot Vacuums

Sammy Azdoufal used Claude Code to build an app to link his brand-new DJI Romo vacuum to a PS5 controller. Then he noticed something strange. The app wasn’t just controlling his vacuum. It was ...
The Verge

The DJI Romo robovac had security so poor, this man remotely accessed thousands of them

The immediate threat may be fixed, but this raises serious questions. The immediate threat may be fixed, but this raises serious questions. is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who ...
Tom's Guide

Exclusive: These are the new AT-AT and AT-RT remote control toys from 'The Mandalorian and Grogu' movie

Entertainment Lego Smart Brick teardown just revealed all the secrets of Lego's latest innovation — and there's a lot of them Gaming The first 8 LEGO Smart Play Star Wars sets just dropped — new Smart ...
THE WEEK

Russia’s ‘cyborg’ spy pigeons

For thousands of years, humans have trained pigeons to race, deliver messages and “spy behind enemy lines”, said Bloomberg. “What would happen if people could bypass the training and steer their bird ...
Wall Street Journal

China Trains AI-Controlled Weapons With Learning From Hawks, Coyotes

Engineers studying drone combat at one of China’s top military-linked universities needed a way to simulate clashes between drone swarms in real time. They turned to nature for inspiration. Observing ...
BGR

China Revealed A Motion Controlled Military Robot For Remote Combat

A world similar to the 2011 "Real Steel" movie is not as far as we thought it could be. In fact, China's People Liberation Army has shown off a military robot that can mimic a soldier's combat moves ...
Forbes

First-Ever Humanoid Robot App Store Launches So You Can Make Your Robot Dance And Fight

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Journalist, analyst, author, podcaster. Chinese robot manufacturer Unitree just launched the “world’s first” humanoid robot app ...