Robotics

Last year a young Austrian man named Patrick was the first person in the world to choose to have his hand amputated, and fitted with a bionic replacement. The results are impressive.

There are case mods, and then there are works of art.

When a satellite that cost $600 million to build and operate goes silent for 144 hours, you're going to get a few peeved astronomers.

At the TED Conference, a Google Fellow showed off an automobile that can drive itself using nothing but sensors and cameras. The future is now!

The Geminoid DK project at Osaka University is producing androids that are becoming more lifelike each day.

A story about cheating in middle-eastern camel racing—and by the way, the jockeys are robots. Buried lede, or simply a case of the unevenly-distributed future?

In an age of ever-more fantastic gadgets, it's becoming received wisdom that we're all cyborgs now. But as implant hacker Lepht Anonym reminds us, the original vision of the term was dangerous and feral. Videos after the jump.

The head of the Philip K. Dick android, which went missing in 2006, has been rebuilt by Hanson Robotics. Who will help it come to grips with its strange and chequered past? Video after the jump.

A robot that solves Rubik's cube with Sisyphean aplomb, an avatar of something like the opposite of the uncanny valley.

A controversial radio-controlled flight over Manhattan brings a measure of joy and wonder to the New York City skyline.