This is a clip from How It’s Made detailing how those overpriced pre-packaged sandwiches you find at gas stations are made. SPOILER: not in any way that makes them more appetizing, I don’t care how much you love robot mayo. Those sandwiches are rarely good, even when you pay $18
This is a tour detailing the process in which zinc-carbon AA batteries are manufactured at a Chinese factory, which can produce up to 500,000 batteries a day. That’s a lot of batteries! And what percentage of those do you think end up in a person’s butt? My guess is the
This is a clip from student Matt Barta, who presumably programmed this little industrial robotic arm to pull its own power cord from itself. Smart thinking! Or, who knows, maybe the robot foresaw a life of cruel robotic experimentation in its future and decided to end things itself while it
Because behind the scenes are often the best scenes, this is footage from a camera attached to a piece of checked baggage at the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport, which has over 20 MILES of automated luggage conveyors in its five terminals. Wow! It’s amazing luggage ever makes it on
This is a clip of the painted eyeballs being applied to dolls during a multi-step process at a toy factory in Adana, Turkey. They start with a base of white (sclera), then add a ring of blue iris before completing the look with black pupil and eyelash on the side.
The brainchild of maker of things Ivan Miranda, this is a giant 3D printed marble clock that tells time using black and white marbles as a dot matrix display. The clock features a marble elevator, at the top of which it uses an array of infrared sensors to determine black
Inspired by the old paper shredder his mom was throwing out, artist Japhy Riddle added wheels to it and transformed it into a piece of kinetic art, pulling itself along and endlessly shredding provided it has a piece of paper long enough, and its power cord reaches. The machine gives
Harnessing the power of ChatGPT, Boston Dynamics has turned one of their Spot quadruped robots into a talking tour guide, capable of providing tours of their facility with a variety of personalities, including a 1920’s archaeologist, Shakespearean actor, British butler, and bleak sarcastic guy “Josh”. All of the different personalities