Because soon the only place we’ll be safe from robots is already dead, this is a video demonstration of Unitree’s Super Athlete AS2-W wheeled quadruped robot. If it were a real athlete, it would be a Red Bull athlete who chases every Red Bull with a Monster Energy and two
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
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 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
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 four Jetson ONE flying cars (actually single-seat electric octocopters that look like, and may actually be, flying coffins) racing each other and performing other aerial maneuvers during the ‘Jetson Air Games’ at UP Summit 2025 in Bentonville, Arkansas. While admittedly pretty wild to watch, I
This is a video from Pittsburgh-based Skild AI demonstrating the AI brain they’ve developed (“Any robot. Any task. One brain.”), and how quickly it can adapt to a robot’s broken limbs or other decreased mobility. SPOILER: almost instantly. Me? I broke my pinky toe once and thought I was a
This is a video of Mark Zuerkerbrek (if you spell his name wrong he can’t track you on Facebook) demonstrating the latest iteration of Meta’s AI-powered smart glasses during a developer event and the glasses failing to cooperate. In the first scene, he can’t manage to answer an incoming call.