In bad news, this is a video of Engineering Arts’ humanoid robot Ameca (previously) attempting to grab the arm of an actual person who boops its nose. Granted,you shouldn’t just go around booping noses all willy-nilly, but you also shouldn’t teach robots to aggressively respond to human interaction. This will

Seen here being powered by what appears to be a Bose brand arc reactor, this is a video of Engineered Arts’ Ameca humanoid robot demonstrating its eerie ability to make realistic human facial expressions. Ameca was “designed to improve human-robot interaction, and as a vehicle for AI technology,” which I

Like I needed a reminder that robots can and will hunt me down given the opportunity, this is the latest video from harbingers of the robot apocalypse Boston Dynamics starring their Atlas humanoid robot performing a little parkour. So, if you were wondering if you could out-parkour a killer robot

This is a video of Cassie, a pair of robotic legs (and nothing else) developed by Agility Robotics, successfully running 5K in just over 53 minutes (running at around ~5.7km/h or 3.5MPH) and on a single battery charge. Not bad. For reference, the only way I’m finishing a 5K is

Because the endtimes are upon us, this is a video from the Kamchatka Peninsula in eastern Russia of millions of male mosquitos swarming in a ‘tornado’ in an attempt to mate with females, and darkening the sky in the process. Some more info while I phantom itch just thinking about

This is a rather fascinating video of explainer of things Tom Scott visiting a grocery packing warehouse in the southeast of London, where 2,300 robots are constantly on the move gathering and packing bags of groceries for delivery to customers. The facility, the size of seven football (soccer?) fields, contains

The Hyundai Motor Group just acquired a controlling 80% stake in Boston Dynamics to the tune of around $900-million. And to celebrate that acquisition, this is a video of seven Boston Dynamics Spot quadruped robots dancing to ‘IONIC: I’m On It’, a music collaboration between the South Korean auto manufacturer

This is a video of Tom Cruise lookalike/impersonator Miles Fisher going the extra mile with the help of video effects specialist Chris Ume and being deepfaked into a version of the actor discussing industrial cleaning. I think the reason the result is so uncanny is because Miles already looks so