This is a Throwbot. Throwbots can be thrown (just like the name implies!!!!!11) or shot out of a cannon, then roll around recording video so you finally put to rest how your roommate keeps his privates trimmed (I’m on to you!). This particular model features magnetic wheels and can roll up flat metal surfaces for boarding pirate ships . Personally, I like to swing over on a rope with a cutlass between my teeth, but I also kick it oldschool. “Is that why you’re wearing an eyepatch?” No, I’m wearing an eyepatch because I had a little altercation with a pair of scissors. You know how they say you shouldn’t run with them? Well you shouldn’t trip down the stairs with them either. Where were you on that one, kindergarten?! Hit the jump for a video of the roly-poly in action.

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Throwbot Surveillance Robots Can Be Thrown, Climb Walls, Film You While You Sleep

Hit him in the eyes! This is the Rollin’ Justin. He can catch two balls thrown near him at the same time. Say hi to all the readers, Justin. “beep boop bzzt DESTROY.” Oh shit! …the robot is able to position itself within two centimeters of where it needs to be in a time window of only five milliseconds, which yields an impressive catch rate of better than 80 percent. Admittedly, that’s a pretty impressive catch rate. I’m probably more around 50%. Less than 10% with just my right hand. *dirty look* You’re not even good at the mouse buttons! A video of catchbot catching after the jump (with bonus making coffee footage!!!!11)

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Run For The Hills: A Ball-Catching Robot

OMG SOMEBODY GET THAT ROBOT A BEER BEFORE HE KILLS US ALL. I had to look up what a toque was because I thought it was when you smoke the marijuanas but that made zero sense in this context. Nope, turns out it’s a brimless hat most commonly known for being the tall white ones chefs wear . Hey, you learn something new everyday. Today I learned I don’t give a f*** what a toque is. Check out this Bender toque that was crocheted by hand by [Etsy seller] Cheewawamomma! You have to admit that Bender is one of the most likable robots on TV, given his sunny disposition. Although I’m not sure if the kid wearing the toque should be having her mind corrupted by watching Futurama yet, adults sure can enjoy it. I guess that’s why the hat is covering up her eyes and ears. Thanks but no thanks, lady, I have my own bender helmet. Get it? Because my mom makes me wear protective headgear so I don’t injure myself when I’m drunk. It used to be a lacrosse helmet, but I recently switched to a motorcycle helmet because I think it makes me look more like a fighter pilot. ROGER DODGER BOGEY BARTENDER, GW NEEDS ANOTHER SHOT, OVER. “You’re cut off.” OH COME ON — BECAUSE I PISSED MY FLIGHT-SUIT?! “Those are capris.” I’M A NAVY PILOT. Hit the jump for a crocheted Bender toilet paper cover made by the same artist.

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Crocheted Futurama Bender ‘Toque’ (Hat)

Seen here with an XBox Kinect for a head and about to grope a patient, ‘Cody’ the robot was used in a study conducted by Georgia Tech to learn about how people respond to a robot’s touch . NOT WELL. Boom — study’s a wrap, let’s go drink. “What we found was that how people perceived the intent of the robot was really important to how they responded. So, even though the robot touched people in the same way, if people thought the robot was doing that to clean them, versus doing that to comfort them, it made a significant difference in the way they responded and whether they found that contact favorable or not,” Although Cody touched the subjects in exactly the same way, they reacted more positively when they believed Cody intended to clean their arm versus when they believed Cody intended to comfort them. In addition, Kemp and his research team tested whether people responded more favorably when the robot verbally indicated that it was about to touch them versus touching them without saying anything. “The results suggest that people preferred when the robot did not actually give them the warning,” said Tiffany Chen, doctoral student at Georgia Tech. “We think this might be because they were startled when the robot started speaking, but the results are generally inconclusive.” Regardless of “intent,” I can guarantee I’d respond the same way no matter what: grab whatever touched me (yes, even a peener), break it off, and beat its owner to death with it. Which, fun fact: is my same MO for alien contact. TOUCH MY BUTT, YOU BIG GREEN PERVERT, I DARE YOU! *poke* Ooh la la. Okay that I could get used to. Hit the jump for a brief video explanation.

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STUDY: How Do Humans Respond To A Robot’s Touch? SPOILER: I’d Scream

Remember BigDog from Boston Dynamics? Ha, how could you forget , it haunts our dreams at night (well at least mine anyways). And now the creators have been awarded a grant from DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) to build ‘Cheetah’, a smaller, faster-than-human version capable of hunting. Basically, a fully-functional killer version of this guy . Greaaaaaaaat. *jams a porkchop between your buttcheeks* As the name implies, Cheetah is designed to be a four-legged robot with a flexible spine and articulated head (and potentially a tail) that runs faster than the fastest human. In addition to raw speed, Cheetah’s makers promise that it will have the agility to make tight turns so that it can “zigzag to chase and evade” and be able to stop on a dime. Aside from its unspecified military applications, Cheetah’s makers see it galloping to the rescue and building a brave new future in the fields of “emergency response, firefighting, advanced agriculture and vehicular travel.” So — is anybody here still convinced the robot apocalypse is just a make-believe story I tell my dogs before bed so they don’t get off the couch in the middle of the night? If so, raise your hand. Skynet — please take all these @$$holes first and give the rest of us a fighting chance. Now — who knows the best way to kill a robotic cheetah? *pointing* You, with the glasses. “With kindness?” Yeaaaaaaaah, you try that. Then, while it’s busy tearing all your limbs off, I’ll shoot it with a rocket launcher. ROCKET LAUNCHER, MORON, ROCKET LAUNCHER WAS THE ANSWER. Darpa’s Cheetah-Bot Designed to Chase Human Prey [wired] Thanks to Kristen and jdivo, who want to know if you throw a robotic cheetah if it always lands on its feet. SPOILER : No. It lands on your face. With its claws out. Then your face disappears.

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BigDog’s Creators Get DARPA Grant To Build A Faster, Human-Hunting Robotic Cheetah

What’s the RDA for glitter? This is a picture of a cake that has all the elements of the most beautiful daydream ( unicorns , rainbows , lollipops ) and most terrifying nightmare ( zombies , piranha plants , robots) at the same time. I call it the WTF Cake, although you can call it delicious. Shit, you can even call its mother a whore, although that’d be rude because you don’t even know her. SHE’S A NICE LADY! (But will start randomly grabbing balls if you get a drink in her) Hit the jump for a bunch of closeups, along with a shot of the makers (and bonus nipple cupcakes!), at least one of which (and possibly both) you’ll leave comments about wanting to bang. God, do I know you guys or what? I do, and I’m even more embarrassed than your parents.

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Like Heaven & Hell Exploded Simultaneously

In the spirit of Halloween I’ll forgive the father responsible for dressing his young, impressionable child up like Robocop and taking pictures of him patrolling around Detroit. But just for the weekend. Come Monday this sort of thing isn’t cool anymore. And speaking of not cool anymore — I’m pretty sure the air conditioner in my bedroom broke back in June. I still turn it on though because I like the rattling sound it makes. Helps me sleep at night. Also, drinking a lot right before bed. Sorry if I’m not making any sense right now I drank a fat man’s weight in booze last night and I’m hair of the dogging it this morning to make my head stop pounding. I might have already had too much. Just kidding, there’s no such thing. You know how much Halloween candy I’m gonna eat this weekend? All of it. Hit the jump for several more, and a link to even more of the candy magnet in action.

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The Cutest Lil Robocop You Ever Did See

You may have heard of the Da Vinci robot before (mentioned HERE and HERE on Geekologie in the past). But for those of you that haven’t, basically it’s a robot that allows a doctor to control an ultra-small set of robotic pincers and make movements on a scale human hands are incapable of. I’m particularly familiar because I had to trust my dad to the thing earlier this year. And I wasn’t happy about it. In a world first medics at Montreal General Hospital used an anesthesia robot, nicknamed McSleepy, to put the patient under. They then employed the DaVinci surgical robot to remotely perform the delicate operation. The hospital have been using McSleepy since 2008, and were the first in the world to perform surgery using a totally automated system to knock out patients. DaVinci is a far newer addition and was only put to work this summer but this was the first time the two were combined. Dr Aprikian said McSleepy helped to create the perfect conditions needed for robotic surgery. He said: ‘Automated anesthesia delivery via McSleepy guarantees the same high quality of care every time it is used, independent from the subjective level of expertise.’ Now I hate robots as much as the next human concerned with the survival of our species, but the da Vinci did perform well when I needed it to. Granted I would have been rushing my dad out of the hospital on a gurney had there been any mention of a “McSleepy” robot, but there was not. So, yeah, I guess what I’m trying to get at is this: thanks — thank you, Da Vinci robot. (You have no idea how hard that was for me) Patient has prostate removed in world’s first all-robotic surgery [dailymail] Thanks to dsm00th, Jose, mark and Jenn, who have all performed surgeries on themselves without anesthetic or proper medical equipment. You all got shot robbing a bank, didn’t you? That’s what veterinarians are for, haven’t you seen any movies?!

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The First ENTIRELY Robotic Prostate Surgery

This is a short video demonstrating Vecna Robotics’ B.E.A.R. (Battlefield Extraction-Assist Robot). It was allegedly designed to help carry wounded soldiers off the battlefield , but the video also shows its adeptness at smashing through doors , breaking car windows , lifting weights, picking up missiles and transforming/rolling out. Truly frightening. Reminds me of that scene in Forrest Gump where Lieutenant Dan gets his legs shot off in Vietnam and tells Forrest to leave him but Forrest won’t because he’s a stupid jerk and can’t even respect a man’s dying wishes. THANK A LOT, MORON. Ooooh, is that shrimp cocktail? Hit the jump for a video of operation Shock ‘n Awe Dismember in action (also available in HD!).

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Not Cool: Frightening Robot Demonstration

The BeerBot Bottle Opening Shirt from ThinkGeek is a $20 tee with incorporated bottle opener . I assume BeerBot is supposed to be a copyright-free version of Bender , but I could be wrong. But you’re so handsome. Am I STILL wrong? Never been wronger, butterface! ThinkGeek Product Site via BeerBot Shirt Gets Your Bottles Open [uberreview] Thanks to sara, who knows the best way to drink beer is straight from the barley’s boobie. Wheat’s teat?

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I’ll Stab You: BeerBot Bottle Opening Shirt