The unavoidable and inexorable robots from DARPA and Boston Dynamics normally provoke nerdy references to Skynet and the obliteration of humankind. However, two sets of university eggheads — who sensibly are supposed to identify better — are in fact occupied in a rivalry to create the mainly horrific, frightening robots ever to elegance (and ultimately wipe out) the planet.

Engineers from the Georgia Institute of Technology, who are one-upping their disgraceful matching part from Switzerland’s Ecole Polytechnique Federale, have created a bot that not merely dupes its competitors, but also vigorously lies, deceives, conceals and steals . . . → Read More: Georgia Engineers Create Cheating Robots