This week, three close encounters of the third kind…

At the Flanders’ Mechatronics Technology Centre in Belgium, researchers have built a robot which can play badminton:

Researchers presenting at 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), showed what happened when they taught their RHex legged robot to jump:

Ross Knepper of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology devised a system with two cooperating robots which can assemble an Ikea coffee table: