Video: The Soup Robot

I've seen a couple of Simone Giertz's videos in the past and they're all rather crazy/hilarious. Basically she makes robots that do stuff, and they don't generally do that stuff particularly well. In this video she's made a robot that serves her soup...

Robots for Humanity

This is an amazing TED talk about how science is progressing into the realm of science fiction as an aid for the disabled.  I've embedded the talk, but blogger's been giving me grief lately, so in case it doesn't show up you can find the talk, by Henry Evans here.  You can find out more about their project, Robots for Humanity, here.