Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos

A new automated lab bench combs through known chemical reactions to figure out how best to synthesize compounds

Consultancy firm Certified Artificial, which is offering to certify AI companies, has demonstrated its prowess by rating the expertise of Elon Musk and Henry Kissinger

The OpenAI project demonstrated "emergent behavior" by the AI players, including surfing

Little swarm robots that can't do much on their own can use their random behavior to accomplish tasks like locomotion

Rigid IT departments and job-hopping data scientists are just two of the challenges that make implementing machine learning harder than you might think

Skydio crams all its autonomous magic into a sleek consumer drone that costs under $1k

Using reinforcement learning and randomized simulations, researchers taught this robot how to solve a Rubik's cube one-handed

Can an online game that combines human brainpower with AI solve intractable problems?

Pepe helps keep Indian children healthy by reminding them to wash up

A new two-way teleoperation system sends your motions to the robot and the robot's motions to you

Leaders in Silicon Valley—both the real one and the fictional one on HBO—started this week by debating the responsibilities of tech companies

Michael Kratsios, the fourth U.S. Chief Technology Officer, explains administration policies at the Fall Conference of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence

Spacecraft propulsion systems are ready for China’s daring touchdown attempt on the red planet

Janelle Shane talks about the absurdity, perils, and limits of AI

Shannon's said: “OCRO HLI RGWR NMIELWIS”

In 1966, the Eliza program couldn’t say much—but it was enough

The fastest, safest, and most exciting way to launch a quadrotor may be ballistically

Bosch SoundSee combines deep learning with mobile microphone arrays to identify problems on the ISS before they happen

Experts discuss technological inequality and the “reskilling” problem at an MIT conference

A new contest aims to help first responders leverage computer vision algorithms and drone imagery during a search

MIT conference considers companies that have implemented job-friendly AI

She’s also learning to iron.

Temuera Morrison is appearing on the next season of the show.

झारखंड के बोकारो जिले में चंद्रपुरा प्रखंड के तेलो गांव में कोरोना वायरस संक्रमण के एक और मामले की पुष्टि हुई है

रांची प्रशासन ने कहा कि सदर अस्पताल के कर्मचारी जिन्होंने महिला को अटेंड किया था उनका अब परीक्षण किया जाएगा।

Because we don't have enough on our plates as it is, now we've got 'murder hornets' flying around the United States. Murder hornets (actually Asian Giant Hornets, but that name didn't strike enough fear into the masses) have a sting powerful enough that China recommends medical treatment if stunk more than ten times, and emergency treatment if stung more than 30. *pours out a little liquor for Macaulay Culkin in My Girl*. And where is his glasses?! He can't see without his glasses! Put his glasses on! Here's a video of Coyote Peterson getting stung by one (the Japanese Giant Hornet was previously believed to be a subspecies of the Asian Giant Hornet, but has since been recategorized as a color morph). This is a video of a praying mantis eating a Giant Asian hornet until it's just a pile of limbs. So yeah, praying mantises -- start breeding them. And make sure to selectively breed them too so we can produce them bigger and bigger until they're preying on us because the way things are going how is that not how this ends? Keep going for the video while I surround my Animal Crossings town with preying mantises to protect my villagers and keep my five-star rating (okay, three).

This is a video of Youtuber Edward Sarkissian exploding an M67 frag grenade inside an 87-pound steel SentrySafe fire/waterproof home safe to see what will happen. What happens? It gets BLOWN UP. So, if you were wondering if "inside a home safe" would be a secure place to dispose of your extra grenades, the answer is not even for the first one, and definitely none after that. So while this safe may be fireproof, it certainly isn't *lobs dog toy like hand grenade, bounces off wall and back at my feet* fire-in-the-holeproof. Keep going for the video (everything up to 4:15 is prepping the grenade inside the safe), as well as a video of opening a safe with grenades taped to the outside (with $10,000 and a gold bar inside).

Psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen thinks scientists and engineers could be more likely to have a child with autism. Some researchers say the proof isn't there.

Epic will be hosting its latest in-game event in Fortnite this weekend, featuring the talents of Dillon Francis, Steve Aoki and deadmau5

The makers of Blair Witch, Observer and Layers of Fear today announced a new psychological horror game - The Medium.

Codemasters next racing game, DIRT 5 has been announced.

Where is Xur? The Destiny 2 exotic gear merchant's location changes every week. So here's everything you need to know including the latest from Bungie ahead of his arrival on May 8.

PUBG Mobile update 0.18.0 released this week but a bug appears to be causing a lot of grief for players unable to play since downloading the latest patch

Destiny 2 Trials of Osiris returns once again later today – here's what you need to know for this week's end-game PvP challenge.

Epic Games has issued a warning ahead of the Party Royale event, but it might not be the only problem facing players this evening.

Fortnite Party Royale event starts soon. Here's everything you need to know including start times for Deadmau5, Dillon Francis and Steve Aoki - PLUS how to claim the many live event rewards available from Epic Games as they celebrate 350 million players.

We discover the most appropriate analogy for the current handheld market. Jon decides he’s ready to import a 3DS. Square Enix and Nintendo demonstrate how...

Between artwork controversies and some backwash from a riptide, we find a way to bring you the biggest news of the week. You won’t believe...

We remember Andrew Long. We’ll miss you, buddy. But the show must go on and we talk about Happy Meals, luminescent children, Kemco games, and...

Today’s podcast is truly outrageous. Anna Marie, Alex, and Chris try to talk about some video game news. Unfortunately for our heroes, it seems that...

As Anna prepares her statement, Alice introduces us to a new form of missile delivery. Chris plays really old games instead of the other old...

Kermit has a bacon problem. Manny has an announcement. Alice has neon lighting and a wormhole. And Chris has an Apple addiction. Like seriously, send...

Sam Wachter tries to convince us that Moco Moco Friends’ Plushkins are not Pokémon. Anna Marie goes through all the feels. Chris continues his therapy...

While Nintendo tries to own the news cycle this week, we have a bigger story. There is apparently a non Final Fantasy character in World...

Chris dies in Dark Souls 22 times. Anna Marie plays that one town in Dragon Quest 7 AGAIN. Kelley collects demonic Pokémon. Alex loses at...

E3 has come and gone. What did we think? What did you think? We try to tackle all these topics as well as figure out...

This week we explore Ever Oasis: A Realm Reborn in depth. We figure out what your most hyped games of the year are. Finally, we...

As we acknowledge our robot overlords, we also listen to all the new stuff coming out of Japan. There’s mechs, monsters, Chobobros, and deformed amazons....

It's Extra Life 2018. As Chris repeatedly dies in Dark Souls III, we discuss Blizzcon and the first wave of upcoming November releases.