In this alarming video, a sock puppet 'bot (Hm. I think they have those on IO9.com) emotes and is recognized by a SpiderBot. I think the jury is out on "emotional intelligence interfaces".... or it should be out, running for the hills! Watch the vid. See if it doesn't give you a cold shiver...

Well, combined with the canidroid a few weeks ago, we now see robots that can reassemble themselves... Things don't look good for the human race.  Read more »

Man shot by killer robotThis past week, in addition to the cool (and kind of creepy) video of the Big Dog robot, we get news of a man who built a robot for the specific purpose of suicide. More after the jump... Read more »

This is seriously cool, and just a little bit unsettling. I don't follow robotics super closely - just the occassional video out of Japan of something that looks vaguely humanoid that is dancing to music from Spoon or U2, but this seems to me to be a huge leap for real practical robotics. Here is the link to more of the story, followed by some of the video: