This is a video from Beijing of a little humanoid robot practicing for the upcoming World Humanoid Robot Games (aka robot Olympics, starting August 22nd) when it crashes hard into a padded wall, falls, doubles over backwards, and shoots sparks from the abdomen. And not in a sexy way like

Because how else are you going to prove you deserve that degree, film student Keith David Brown edited Monty Python And The Holy Grail into And Grail Holy Monty Python The, a version of the movie where every spoken (or spelled) word is now in alphabetical order. Like, for the

Using over 2,000 drones, Seoul My Soul orchestrated a Star Wars light show above Seoul, South Korea. Highlights include the Star Wars logo, Millennium Falcon, TIE Fighter cockpit with animated flight, R2-D2 and BB-8, Luke Skywalker and his dad, and the Mandalorian and Grogu. Perhaps the most impressive display though

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

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

This is a video of an AgiBot Expedition A3 humanoid robot packing itself in its travel case. Does it look like a pleasure model while it’s folding itself up? Of course it does, this thing had pleasure-bot written all over it even before it was grabbing its buttcheeks with its

This is a video of Tomatonium and ElijahTS performing a perfect co-op performance to the 157 BPM song ‘Sarabande’ in arcade dancing game Pump It Up Prime 2, which may or may not also be the name of a male enhancement pump. “I believe that’s actually Pump It Up 2

This is a clip from BBC Studios of a beaver in Yellowstone National Park felling a cottonwood tree and building a dam with it. Apparently beavers can take down a tree like this in a few hours, and a single beaver can fell several hundred trees a year. It’s amazing