This is some Ring doorbell cam footage of a recycling truck eating a family’s recycling bin, presumably after deeming the bin itself suitable for recycling. Me? I’m never sure if I’m supposed to put my yogurt cups in the recycling or not. It looks like the truck actually malfunctioned based
This is a video of Mark Rober discussing and demonstrating the five-years-in-the-making robot he and his team built that’s capable of setting up a record-breaking 100,000 dominos in 24 hours. For reference, it takes an experienced team of seven a full week to set up the same number of dominos,
Because soon the Olympics won’t even have any human competitors, only robots, these are a couple clips of Toyota’s CUE 4 basketball shooting robot at the Olympics sinking a free throw, three-pointer, and half-court shot like shooting fish in a barrel, which is probably a simile it wouldn’t understand unless
This is the music video for Paul McCartney’s new collaboration with Beck ‘Find My Way’, featuring Beck deepfaked as a dancing “de-aged” McCartney throughout the video. It’s all fine enough. Would I write home about it? Who writes home anymore? What is this, the 1800’s? I just text my parents
This is a curved digital billboard above Tokyo’s Shinjuku Station that will display a giant cat optical illusion through the day, because that’s exactly what the world needs more of. I swear, Japan is always ahead of the curve. Some more info: According to TimeOut, “the cat will have its
These are a couple beautiful timelapse videos released by the European Space Agency (ESA) of astronauts Thomas Pesquet and Shane Kimbrough spacewalking while installing new solar arrays on the International Space Station. Thank goodness neither one of them got hit by one of those rotating arrays and got booted out
This is a rather fascinating video of explainer of things Tom Scott visiting a grocery packing warehouse in the southeast of London, where 2,300 robots are constantly on the move gathering and packing bags of groceries for delivery to customers. The facility, the size of seven football (soccer?) fields, contains
The Hyundai Motor Group just acquired a controlling 80% stake in Boston Dynamics to the tune of around $900-million. And to celebrate that acquisition, this is a video of seven Boston Dynamics Spot quadruped robots dancing to ‘IONIC: I’m On It’, a music collaboration between the South Korean auto manufacturer