http://www.livescience.com/technology/090402-robot-scientist.html

tl:dr

Robotic Adam & Eve created and have complete control of a cyber-genetic laboratory!
Run meatbags, run!

http://blog.oneriot.com/content/2009/04/gardening-robots-do-it-with-plants/

Watch your backs, they are starting to sneak by now.

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/04/newtonai.html


<.<....mark my words....Doom.....

Does this mean robots will be earning doctorates and teaching at colleges someday?

Ain't that already the case?

You should see some of the professors over at the community college in my hometown. They're like FNC anchors, only liberal.

http://reprap.org/bin/view/Main/WebHome
 
Laugh while you can.

http://www.hansonrobotics.com/robots.html

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRR33WDFi_k" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRR33WDFi_k</a>

At first glance Jules isn’t so bad. Everything about it is carefully designed to minimize the discomfort of interacting with it. It sports a staggering array of servos in his arms and torso, advanced animatronics controls throughout his head and face. Even hi-res cameras in both eyes so that it can see and track people to help it “lock-on to his conversation partners.”
Specifically built to be androgynous, it speaks with a pleasing pseudo-British accent, and the default state of his facial expression reminds one of a happily bewildered, and confused half-wit. 
The creep factor begins when you notice that the back half of his skull has been sheared off, leaving only a mass of twisted wires, whirring motors, and plastic bits. Since it tracks you, one gets the feeling it is actually trying to hide this obvious fact. It seems downright paranoid about it in fact.
However, it’s not until you get into Jules’ personality software that things start to get really, truly creepy and downright frightening. This is because Jules remembers conversations and learns from them.
"So what?" you may ask.
Well, lets think about it for one second.
Hanson Robotics insists that “if you treat Jules poorly, it may not be nice to you.”
If you dis Jules, he’ll note it, remember it and respond in kind at a later time.
There is a word for that in the English language:

Revenge.
 
Long atory short, they have built an android that can almost pass for human, learns from its mistakes, tracks people and actively seeks revenge.

It also recently wants to know more about sexuality. Jules wants you to explain it in detail. It actually wants to explore sexual nature.
With you. Or anyone that happens past.

Just remember: “If you treat Jules poorly, it may not be nice to you.”

 

''... another was a story by Lester del Rey, entitled 'Helen O'Loy that touched me with its portralay of a robot what was everything a loyal wife should be.''

That is Asimov and it is also one of the phantasmagorias that haunt those laboratories; 'we can build you a loving wife' 'we also know that you will have difficulties to adapt and engage with a formless frigid cube and since we want you to engage, we will draw a face on the cube so you don't feel frightened anymore, we will make sure it keeps eye contact as to be a credible partner, eyes that aknowledge you will assure you that the formless cube is still one, your wife and two, loving.
We will conceal the line that separates the happy face from the cube with a realistic wig ('Betty, I want you to be a redhead tonight') so no angle will betray the deception; you can approach your wife from behind, and with a little training from your part you will be oblivious to the irregularities in skin texture the little slower than human reaction time.
And it will astonish you with an almost untarishable eagerness to learn from you, sure it will require maintenance where you strip the happy face and for half an hour becomes a frigid cube again but, most of the time it will flex tiny devices which produce a smile,  'speak with that old-fashioned pseudo-British accent' and maybe a pout.
And when I switch my wife off as to escape the non-stop questioning, I will notice that it feels somewhat wrong and that feel bad so I will tell her goodbye 'goodbye Betty, goodbye'  exactly what you tell a friend when a moment before they roll him to the OP block you want him to know that you are counting on seeing him again (that is the strongest scene in the documentary, the transition between happy face and the rigid cube with a rubber mask)

'Anton, I'd rather not wear my mask today, would you remove it for me please?'
'That is your skin  Betty, remember?'
'But don't you love me for what I am?'

Then on the other end, we get these cute little buggers. So innocent, aren't they?

http://gajitz.com/tiny-swarming-robots-coming-soon-to-eat-your-data/