8 of the weirdest robots in the world right now [Video]

Robots were once consigned mainly to routine tasks in manufacturing and logistics, but now they are slowly spreading their mechanical limbs and stretching into many other areas of life and science.

While many of these recent robots are useful, some are just plain weird. Some use advanced algorithms to render them unsettlingly human-like, while others have bizarre designs aimed at specific tasks.

Read on to meet seven of the weirdest robots you can find in the world right now.

Injectable nanobots

They might sound like something from a cyberpunk movie, but injectable nanobots are already a reality. Researchers from the University of Edinburgh’s School of Engineering have developed tiny magnetic robots formed of blood-clotting drugsthat are designed to melt at a specific temperature, thanks to a special coating. These bots, which are around one-12th the size of a red blood cell, …