Chinese robotics manufacturer UBTECH Robotics has developed the Walker S2, the first humanoid robot capable of replacing its own battery when it senses its low or overheating, allowing for continuous 24-hour operation. I assume the Walker S1 didn’t have that capability. Obviously, we should start hoping and praying now that

Because this is the world we live in now (it’s not a good one), former AI skeptic Chris Smith started using ChatGPT to program an AI companion bot named Sol and fell so in love with her that he proposed marriage, despite having Sasha, an actual human girlfriend (who he

Because soft fabrics and washing machines are so 20th century, this is a video of 3D designer Minouei Mohsen producing his Akhera sculptural fashion collection. He starts by 3D body scanning the human models, then uses the data to produce perfectly fitting bras and tops digitally before 3D printing them.

This is a video demonstration of a Tamagotchi inspired virtual pet “torture chamber” created by Cornell University design students Rhea Goswami, Caroline Hohner, and Amanda Huang. It’s like a regular Tamagotchi but with physics added, so tilting the case causes your blob pet to move around and smush into the

Using nanolithography, Dr. Kelly Morrison and her team at Loughborough University in Leicestershire, England have created the world’s smallest violin, measuring only 35 microns long and 13 microns wide. For reference, the average width of a human hair is about 50 microns. Damn, that’s one small violin! Unfortunately it’s not

This is a video from Hyundai Motor Group demonstrating a pair of robots that can scoot under cars to lift them and move them around at will (and, eventually, hacked to steal supercars). I like how the robots showboat for a while after parking the first car before moving on

This is a video created by filmmaker Travis Bible using Google’s AI video generator VEO 3 to demonstrate just how convincing AI-generated video is now, and how it can be used to create deceiving news, or scam people out of their money. These are terrifying times we live in. I

This is a video of firearms expert and the UK’s Royal Armouries museum curator Jonathan Ferguson (complete with an “I’m Your Huckleberry” t-shirt under his blazer) reacting to and seriously discussing a variety of the outlandish weapons seen in the video game DOOM: The Dark Ages. That look on his