This is a video of several crash tests being conducted, pitting older model cars versus newer ones. Some more info while I remember to tape my bumper back on before my next state inspection. It’s all a racket! Unfortunately, as a vehicle ages, a number of factors come into play
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
Developed by artist and speaker Dries Depoorter, The Flemish Scrollers is a machine learning system that watches live-streams of the Flemish government at work, detecting and identifying officials distracted by their phones (or scrolling on their phones — hence The Flemish Scrollers), and automatically uploads the footage to Twitter with
In bad news, this is a video of Engineering Arts’ humanoid robot Ameca (previously) attempting to grab the arm of an actual person who boops its nose. Granted,you shouldn’t just go around booping noses all willy-nilly, but you also shouldn’t teach robots to aggressively respond to human interaction. This will
This is a sizzle reel (think fajitas at Chili’s) for Hyundai Motor Group’s new Mobile Eccentric Droid (MobED), a flat robotic platform on wheels that uses smart suspension and “eccentric wheel drive” powered by three motors in each wheel to keep its payload stabilized no matter the terrain. Some more
In I don’t ever want to get old news, these are two videos of grandmas attempting to use the smartphone picture on the signs in front of the Mobile Order Curbside Pickup parking spots at McDonald’s to contact the restaurant. These, uh, these have to be fake, right? Is this
This is a beautiful and well-edited timelapse video captured by amateur astronomer and Youtuber k2qogir featuring the James Webb Space Telescope passing in front of Alnilam, the middle and brightest star in Orion’s Belt, part of a nebula some 2,000 light years away. In k2gogir’s own words while I pound
Seen here being powered by what appears to be a Bose brand arc reactor, this is a video of Engineered Arts’ Ameca humanoid robot demonstrating its eerie ability to make realistic human facial expressions. Ameca was “designed to improve human-robot interaction, and as a vehicle for AI technology,” which I