Until drones start vaping, you're unlikely to see anything more high-tech millennial than a recent contest in Japan in which robots built by high-schoolers competed to pull off some seriously ...

In this year's RoboCon in Japan, teams of high school students built a bunch of bottle-flipping robots that can nail the internet challenge better than most of us. Read more ...

Somers High School Technology Education students designed, constructed, and programmed a robot that successfully flipped a water bottle.

Ever since that infamous bottle flipping video earlier this year, it seems flipping bottles around is all the kids are doing now. Year 5 teacher Lauren Hinton admitted annoying at first, when ...

Unitree, a Chinese robotics company that developed a backflipping robot, has now introduced a humanoid robot capable of doing a side flip.

Technology has never been more advanced, yet children across the United States are entertaining themselves with something very old-school: partially-filled plastic water bottles.

PASADENA, Calif. — Flippy, the burger-flipping robot that threatens to supplant short-order cooks, has taken its first extended break. But the burger maker isn't blaming balky robotics for the ...

I briefly mentioned my son’s love affair with flipping water bottles in my last column. The reader response to that part was staggering.

Arts & Entertainment How bottle flipping became more addictive than Pokemon Go It's all the rage with middle-school kids -- and the thump-thump is driving parents and teachers nuts.

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — An online trend popular with students around the world has prompted an Orange County middle school to ask students to stop bringing disposable plastic water bottles on campus.

Bottle flips will never get old in the eyes of those most important to popular culture — teenagers. Somers High School Technology Education students designed, constructed and programmed a robot ...