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VIDEO: Robots doing crazy things in our Robot Roundup
Nov 23, 2011
Inflatable ant roaches? Swimming bots? Really fast micebots? We got 'em!
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Three videos of robots doing cool things
Nov 1, 2011
On our Tuesday show, we talk about a trio of robots doing some kind of amazing things....
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Google Transparency Report
Oct 26, 2011
Here's the latest from Google on data requests from governments. Worth a read.
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A whole lot of videos of babies playing with iPads
Oct 18, 2011
Our Wednesday Tech Report is all about kids under the age of two and whether they should watch TV. What no one knows yet is whether they should b...
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Apple's personal assistant of 24 years ago
Oct 5, 2011
Apple rolled out Siri on Tuesday, the personal assistant program that uses a sort of artificial intelligence....
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LOOK AT THIS ENORMOUS ROBOT DOG
Sep 30, 2011
Look at that! It's a robot! But it's so much more! It's an ENORMOUS ROBOT DOG! They call it the Alpha Dog and it was developed for use by the mil...
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How to make anyone on TV just stop talking
Sep 9, 2011
Granted, you'll need some handiness when it comes to electronics. On Monday's show, we talk to Matt Richardson, a New York hacker who has invented...
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MST3K's Bill Corbett dramatically reads from his fake Twitter account
Sep 7, 2011
I don't know. Is that the best headline. Rifftrax.com's Bill Corbett? And it's his real Twitter account, I guess, it's just that it's written in a...
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VIDEO: Two Chatbots talk about God, unicorns, and truth
Aug 29, 2011
Researchers at Cornell have been working on a chatbot called Cleverbot. A chatbot is a piece of software or a robot or something designed to hold...
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Video of MABEL the running robot
Aug 18, 2011
On our Friday show, we talk about MABEL, the robot from the University of Michigan who has learned to run. Here she is in action.
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