Because Flock cameras are all the Big Brother rage these days, the folks at Youtube channel Donut (misnomer, no jelly-filled to be seen) went and wrapped a Toyota Yaris with an “adversarial noise” pattern in an attempt to make the vehicle undetectable by the AI-powered surveillance cameras (previously: doing the

Designed by digital artist Simon Weckert, Digital Camouflage is a shirt collection (designed as an art project, not a security product, but are available for $75 – $100) with patterns that confuse AI-powered human detection and tracking systems, helping the wearer go unnoticed. Art project or not, call the crew,

Crazy, I was just complaining about how much I hate folding laundry in the last post, and what should appear but a laundry-folding robot! I’m going to buy a lotto ticket. Or, more accurately, $80 in losing scratch-offs. This is a video demonstration of Isaac 1, a housekeeping robot developed

The Argus omnidirectional robot developed by General Robotics Lab is a spherical robot with 20 spherical legs and 20 eyes (technically optical sensors). The robot demonstrates dynamics symmetry, meaning it can generate force/acceleration almost equally in all directions. It reminds me of a land octopus. What’s the 20 equivalent of

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 Sony AI’s Project Ace ping-pong playing robot. Sure ping-pong is officially known as table tennis, but I feel like nobody who doesn’t own their own paddle calls it that. Admittedly, this robot looks like a pretty fierce competitor. The way it moves — way faster

This is a video demonstration of the Roadrunner bipedal robot developed by the Robotics and AI Institute. The 33-pound robot looks like a pair of dismembered robotic legs with wheels for feet, presumably because that’s exactly what it is. It can roll around with its wheels oriented straight ahead or

Inspired by AI slop images, engineer Allen Pan (previously) decided to try building an aquarium toilet in real life. The result? A surprisingly functional aquarium toilet. If I’d tried building it? An unsurprisingly unfunctional aquarium toilet and $18K of water damage in the basement. BONUS AI slop beer boots made