This is a video of Unitree’s $650,000 GD01, a giant 1/2 ton humanoid mecha a person can ride inside. It can either walk upright bipedal human style, or transform and walk on all fours like a terrifying robotic animal. The sound of it clanking down the street — that was

Using “historical studies, youth polls, cultural trends, and modern surveys,” this is a visualization of what kids want to be when they grow up, detailing the changing dream jobs of children aged 8 – 12 from 1920 to 2026. In 1983 children stopped wanting to be president, and ninja took

Recently a number of driverless Waymo Jaguar I-PACE taxis have been swarming an Atlanta suburb due to a misrouting issue. Then, when residents put up a ‘SLOW, CHILDREN PLAYING’ sign to prevent more from entering, all the Waymos panicked and created a traffic jam. Waymo claims they’ve seen fixed the

This is a video of two Figure humanoid F.03 robots (who look suspiciously like people wearing robot costumes) tidying a bedroom and making the bed. And all in under two minutes! Granted, the tidying consists entirely of closing a laptop and hanging a pair of headphones on a stand, so

The delectable brainchild of Florida-based poke bowl, hot dog, and sweet treat purveyor Pacific Counter as an April Fools joke, the aloha whipdog is a wiener standing in a cone swirled with pineapple soft serve. I can only assume so many people demanded it be real that it’s on the

This is some drone footage from filmmaker Devon Massyn of the underwater volcano Kavachi in the Solomon Islands erupting. It’s pretty wild. And the sound! The volcanic activity heats and expands nearby water so quickly it’s the equivalent of a hot tub full of water instantly expanding to the size

This is a video of RC fanatics Aircraft Model Art of China putting their RC plane knowledge to the ultimate test: building an actual manned airplane. And they succeed, building a 12.45 foot jet that sets the record for world’s smallest. The plane is controlled by (what else?) RC joysticks.

This is a hype reel from AI humanoid robot manufacturer Figure, which, in the last 120 days, has scaled manufacturing of their F.03 humanoid robots from 1 a day to more than 1 every hour. They will produce 55 robots this week, and the scaling continues. Presumably until they have