Argus Just Showed Up With 20 Eyes, 20 Legs, and No Rules
The moment you see Argus rolling across a college lawn, you feel a kind of awe that’s equal parts scientific admiration and mild existential discomfort….
Robots
Michigan Built a $4,000 Robot You Can Rebuild from Scratch
The Ship of Theseus is one of philosophy’s most enduring thought experiments: if you replace every plank of a ship, one by one, is it…
The Robots That Built Seoul’s Robot Museum
The Seoul Robot & AI Museum is the definitive parametric architecture reference of 2026, and it’s easy to understand why the design world keeps returning…
Unitree’s transforming mecha robot is the closest thing yet to owning a real Transformer
Flying solo tied to a jetpack is a dream we have been savoring for quite some time now. And since movies like the Transformers, the…
MIT Turned 12 Labubu Heads Into a Robot and It’s Watching You
Nobody told MIT grad students to build a rolling sphere covered in twelve Labubu faces. They did it anyway, and now the rest of us…
The Roomba Guy Just Built a Robot Pet You Might Actually Love
If you’ve ever watched your Roomba bump helplessly into a chair leg for the third time and thought, “I deserve better from my robots,” you’re…
This 130cm Robot Just Took Buddhist Vows at a Seoul Temple
There has been a lot of discussion lately about how Artificial Intelligence can affect all kinds of religion. From using ChatGPT to create sermons to…
Forget Smarter AI, This Robot Thinks Presence Is the Point
We keep building AI to do more. More answers, more speed, more certainty. Designer Mehrnaz Amouei looked at that trajectory and asked a fundamentally different…
What If Your Drink Could Fly Itself Across the Room to You
Smart home technology has reshaped how we think about convenience, but most of it still assumes you’re the one who has to reach for things….
A Rolling Home Robot That Recognizes Faces and Detects Falls for $549
Smart home devices have gotten remarkably good at answering questions and playing music, but they’ve always had one big limitation: they stay put. A speaker…
Samsung Design’s Milan 2026 AI Sphere Lifts Its Face Like It’s Alive
Smart home devices have come a long way from the plain white boxes we once hid behind sofas. Voice assistants sit openly on shelves now,…
Your Voice Wearable and Robot Hear the Words Mute People Can’t Say
For most people, saying something as simple as “good morning” to a stranger or asking for directions takes no effort at all. For the tens…