Mankind’s children of silicon and steel are making it into the news more and more these days, so I figured it’s about time we highlight the interesting news concerning robots on a regular basis. This week: reptile bots, maternity bots, and lunar pioneer bots!

Snake robots could aid in rescues!
In what seems like a bad plot for a sci-fi channel movie, a Pennsylvania professor at Carnegie Mellon is designing first responder “snake bots” that promise to be uniquely suited to searching for disaster victims in large debris fields. Maybe it’s just me, but robots with no arms can move silently. Robots that can move silently can kill silently. And don’t get me started on the possibility of these things getting loose on a plane!

Pregnant Robot Gives Birth!
Once human kind has been killed off by that stealthy army of snake bots, the earth will clearly be repopulated via the new pregnancy simulator droid. Even those this particular model is intended to let doctors and nurses practice their trade on a benign patient, everyone knows it’ll only be a matter time until some l337 basement haxor enhances one of these contraptions with the ability to truly replicate artificial life.

Japan launches effort to colonize moon with robots!
Finally, Japan is planning to launch a series of probes to the moon which will begin a remote process of colonization while we humans down here on earth glare up at them anxiously. Because let’s face it: we’re going to be lying awake at night wondering what the chances are that the future will have us dealing with a moonbase full of pregnancy droids furiously pumping out an unstoppable army of snake bots.