We have no idea why, but since we featured Botiful, the Android-powered telepresence robot a few days ago, the tip line has been awash in robot/Android mashups. Here’s a few of the cool ones.

Internals of 3D printed “print and fold” robot. [Image source: MIT CSAIL] Robot design traditionally separates the body geometry from the mechanics of the gait, but they both have a profound ...

he delivered a rapid fire ­presentation on art, engineering and the future of robotics.

Perhaps most strikingly, the bot can change course as it paints to mimic the iterative nature of making art. Frida, the artistic robot, blurs the boundaries between machines and creativity.