The U.S. military has unveiled the Precision Urban Hopper, a small robot on wheels that can jump over fences more than 25 feet high.

Eight robots that do all of the gross jobs you hate.

Toyota robots can now outrun the elderly. Knife attachment optional. (via Designboom)

Today, robots can smack balls at an impressive rate. What will they do tomorrow? (via Metafilter)

Class of 1999, TC 2000 and Cybertracker are just three of the 10 Most Blatant Terminator ripoffs. (via digg)

The Pentagon is working on robot soldiers that will be programmed to not commit war crimes.

Japan introduces the first house-cleaning robot. Like a robot, robot.

Researchers at the University of Plymouth in the U.K. are working to teach a humanoid baby robot to speak and think for itself.

Check out footage of a shape-shifting robot powered by 10 separate magnets. (via Random Good Stuff)

Keepon – a robot designed to "perform emotional and attention exchanges with humans" – dances to a song by indie rockers Spoon. (via Neatorama)