Useless robots (or useless machines) are devices that, when switched on, exist only to turn themselves back off. They are fun and fairly simple builds that are easy to personify, and really invite ...

You remember The Most Useless machine, right? The one that encapsulates our entire interaction with technology by boiling it down to a zero-sum back and forth that ends in a meltdown? Well here ...

"Useless machines" have been around since the 1950s. Now they're making a comeback on the Internet. Invented in the 1950s by an artificial-intelligence expert, the device is known as the "useless ...

When Wired posted its list of “The World’s Most Annoying Technologies” a few weeks back, “The Most Useless Machine” (a box with a toggle switch, which, when flipped, causes a mechanical ...

My own favourite personal example, though - and I'm probably bending the theory a little to reach this point - is the 'useless machine': a great name for a great invention. A great invention that ...

The useless machine is nothing but a simple box which runs a few electrical motors to a few mechanical arms. The box features nothing but a simple toggle switch on the top. When you toggle the ...