Because the future looks bleak, this is a video of a Xiaomi Cyberdog with a loudspeaker mounted on (read: taped to) its back patrolling the streets of Shanghai and broadcasting a COVID lockdown announcement. The Cyberdog, not to be confused with Boston Dynamics’ Spot, is able to navigate the city

This is a video of a boat built by Hard Drive Marine with its custom MaxGate that uses two robotic feet to pull itself ashore. It can also be used in reverse to return the boat to the water. Pretty cool. Probably also pretty expensive. Still, now you won’t have

Using AI learning, scientists at the University of Tokyo’s ISI Laboratory have successfully taught a pair of robotic arms to peel a banana without tearing your penis off with one hand and vaporizing it with the laser blaster in its other. Congratulations? Handling soft fruit is tricky for robots, but

This is a timelapse video documenting the manufacture of a Porsche 911 GT3 from Porsche’s Exclusive Manufaktur division. The car takes two days to build, with more than 1,500 employees involved with fitting the vehicle with all its components. The Porsche GT3 starts at $161,100, although a custom paint color

You’re all familiar with the useless machine, right? It’s a box with a switch and every time you press the switch a hand comes out of the box and turns the switch back off. And that’s all it does. Pretty useless. “Look who’s talking.” Hey! Your insolence aside, this is

This is a video of and from a robotic spy hippopotamus baby built by John Downer Productions (previous spy animals) to infiltrate and film a bloat/pod/herd of wild hippopotamuses, including some exciting underwater action. Fascinating! Did you know hippos don’t swim but actually walk/run along the bottom of the water?

This is a brief video of an automated lemon-stickering machine (I know it was on my Christmas list) doing its thing. Its thing being applying the stickers to lemons so both you and the cashier can identify them at the supermarket. Oh is that a lemon? Shoot, I meant to

This is a video of and from a robotic spy crab built by the nature photographers at John Downer Productions in order to infiltrate the annual red crab migration on Christmas Island in order to capture some up-close and personal footage. Highlights include a crab trying to cannibalize the robot