A stray cat in Izmir, Turkey recently crashed an Imperial Russian Ballet performance of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, curling up to play with the lifeless Romeo’s hair after his tragic death. Admittedly, that’s some luscious looking hair, and I’d have a hard time not playing with it myself. Sometimes I
In news that’s only going to increase exponentially as the robot army grows, a little humanoid robot wearing a blue clown wig recently kicked a child at an amusement park in Xinjiang, China. No word if the kid had called the robot’s mom a bucket of bolts. Thankfully, the child
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 clip from the Indiana Jones Stunt Spectacular show at Disney World where the iconic boulder managed to free itself from its track (“I’m tired of this gig!”) and takes out an employee trying to stop it from bouncing into the crowd. The 400 pound ball launched him
This is a short video of a robot operator taking a swift kick to the nuts by the Unitree G1 robot that’s copying his moves. In the operator’s own translated words while I pretend to tear my own head off just in case any robots are copying me: Before that
This is allegedly a video of a tele-operated Optimus (Prime is insulted) humanoid robot from Tesla serving water bottles at an event when it appears to mimic the movements of the person operating it by taking off its invisible tele-operator headset, collapsing in the process. Whoops! Still, I do find
This is a clip from the Tianmen National Forest Park in Zhangjiajie, China (previously seen with athletes parkouring down) where a publicity stunt involving a Chery SUV attempting to drive up the 999 stairs leading to ‘Heaven’s Gate’ went horribly wrong. The SUV eventually slips backwards and destroys part of
This is a video from appropriately named Youtuber Picard Looking imagining Star Trek’s Captain Picard and crew attempting to hold an agenda-less (my favorite 🙄) Zoom meeting from their own quarters. Despite the dysfunction, that was still 95% more productive than 100% of the Zoom meetings I’ve attended recently, which,