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Flesh-Eating Robot Hoax Exposed!

Staff / Truthdig Jul 30, 2009 A game of Internet telephone has distorted the story of EATR, or Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot, thus morphing the vegetarian, bio-fueled, DoD-sponsored robot from innocent twig forager into corpse-eating battleground vulture! Long live the Interweb. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

I Am Robama, and I Come in Peace

Staff / Truthdig Jul 4, 2009 Number 44 has been spotted in Orlando, in the form of an animatronic addition to Walt Disney World's Hall of Presidents. And it speaks with the president's actual voice. It's as creepy as it is amazing, and easily worth a quick look. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Robot Insects Spying on Protesters?

Staff / Truthdig Oct 10, 2007 It sounds far-fetched, but a number of protesters swear they've spotted robotic insects hovering around anti-war rallies. The government denies deploying robot spies, but it's known that the U.S. military has had robotic flies, such as the one above, since World War II. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Google Goes to the Moon

Staff / Truthdig Sep 14, 2007 If you can build an intelligent robot that can land safely on the moon and send back HD video by 2012, Google will give you $20 million. The search giant has partnered with the X Prize Foundation, which organizes contests around major technological breakthroughs, for its lunar challenge. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

‘Scanning’ the Darkness of Our War on Drugs

Steven Kotler / Truthdig May 15, 2006 In this summer's most talked-about movie, "A Scanner Darkly," Keanu Reeves stars as an undercover narcotics agent losing his grip on reality in an America that has lost the war on drugs. True, the film is a warning call, but might it also inadvertently channel us toward the very dystopia it is warning against? This article ran in May, but we're trotting it out again because the movie just hit theaters this week. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )