While I’ve always been a little scared of spiders, watching student Matt Bunting’s hexapod robot dancing has all but cured me. Maybe it’s the combination of the folk guitar and little leg sways in the below video, but all of a sudden, spiders (at least the robotic kind) look so damn cute.

A humanoid robot has been deployed to a supermarket in Japan to help senior shoppers with their grocery purchases. The modified version of the Robovie II robot developed by Japan’s Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International, or ATR, is working as a temporary shopping assistant at Apita-Seikadai supermarket in Kyoto until March. It’s another experiment to [...]