Following last week’s robotic crash and burn that made us all feel a little more comfortable with the state of robotics, that comfort was quickly dashed(!) when a competitor in the 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games beat Usain Bolt’s 100m sprint time. Usain set the human world record in 2009
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
Made by the folks at Youtube channel Secondhand Movie Co, this is a ‘If Star Wars had a $10 Budget,’ a 52-minute mostly cardboard recreation/parody of A New Hope. For reference, the original movie was made for around $11-million. Adjusted for inflation that’s roughly $60-million today. This was made for
This is a video of BMX riders attempting a nearly impossible Red Bull obstacle course over water. The course gets progressively harder the further you make it, although the rollers at the very beginning are already enough to take a number of riders out. The course ends with riding across
Is smaller better? Depends on the context. Tax bill, absolutely. Computers? Maybe. But did that stop Youtuber Dr. Kun Dániel from building a functional Windows XP “gaming PC” inside a walnut shell? It did not. The nutputer (he calls it a NutPad) features an ultra-tiny display, 5-button keyboard, and USB-C
In news that’s sure to excite any Transformer out there hoping to start a band (I’m looking at you, Soundwave) Youtuber Mattias Krantz went and built a custom ukulele that can instantly transform into an electric guitar mid-performance. Apparently Mattias built the instrument because he felt ukulele players don’t get
Because all those hours I spent spamming the Youtube comments with my alt accounts demanding it be made have finally paid off, this is a bardcore cover of Wheatus’s ‘Teenage Dirtbag’ as performed by Friar Funk and Hildegard von Blingin. They even altered the lyrics to be more period appropriate
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