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One problem with shooting virtual reality video: There’s nowhere for the crew doing the shooting to hide from a camera that sees around a full 360-degree circle. Startup Double Robotics on Wednesday announced a product it thinks will help. The company already sells telepresence robots in the form of a $3,000 iPad on a stalk …

Some fun movies are headed to Amazon’s video streaming service. “Wayne’s World,” starring Michael Myers and Dana Carvey, arrives on Amazon in June. It’s one of the few examples of a “Saturday Night Live” sketch successfully translated for the big screen. It’s right up there with “It’s Pat!” (I’m kidding; “It’s Pat” is a terrible, terrible movie.) The sixth season …

Standing at 20 cm (7.8 inches) tall, the Plen2 is a cute robot from Japan that can do a variety of things, such as pick up a rubber ball or kick it. It’s also capable of mirroring your actions through an Xbox Kinect camera, which is even cooler. You control the Plen2 from your iOS or Android device via Bluetooth, …

Now playing: Watch this: The Cowa Robot is a smart suitcase that follows you 1:06 It doesn’t have multiple tiny feet or lots of big square teeth, nor is it made out of sapient pearwood, but Shanghai-based Cowa’s walking suitcase has already got lazy me falling in love with it. And you would too, once you realised you would almost …

A light switch that you can talk to and that responds to your questions. A robot that shows emotions. A home security system that tells the difference between people and animals. Sounds pretty cool, right? Too bad those smart devices aren’t hitting store shelves anytime soon. The three products are so-called reference designs that Samsung created to show what kind …

Voltron, a super robot from the hit ’80s animated series, might get a Lego set worthy of its giant fan base if Lego Ideas sees the buzz it’s generating. Created by talented fan len_d69, this impressive set was submitted as a proposal on the Lego Ideas site and could hit store shelves if it gets enough votes. All it needs …

Autonomous underwater vehicles are opening up the aquatic domains in more detail than ever before. However, current drone technology is still limited in a few ways, one of which is size, shape and flexibility. With a swimming snake robot, Norwegian engineering company Kongsberg Maritime believes, we could access, survey and monitor hard-to-reach areas. Together with Norwegian University of Science and …

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Sony wants to put a stop to antisocial screen time. The Japanese electronics company showed off two concept projects at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Monday that are designed to bring families together around interactive touchscreens, but minus the actual screens. Sony unveiled a single Xperia smartphone at the world’s biggest mobile trade show this year, but hinted that …

Now playing: Watch this: LG G5 smartphone: CNET Editors react 3:09 We’ve long expected LG’s latest flagship phone would be making the rounds in Barcelona at Mobile World Congress. But here’s something we didn’t expect: The G5 modular, so you can pop the battery out of a compartment on the bottom end and slot in accessories. LG’s G5 goes modular …