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

Determined to beat the previous longest drone flight world record of 3 hours 12 minutes, this is a video of Luke Maximo Bell designing, building, and flying a carbon fiber massively propellered quadrocopter for 3 hours and 31 minutes. But did it deliver any drugs? You may previously recall Luke

This is a video of jump roper Cen Xiaolin setting a new world speed record with an astonishing 228 jumps (technically alternate leg skips) in 30 seconds. That’s 7.6 jumps PER SECOND. Cen has been speed jumping for a while, and his record 8 years ago was only 108 jumps,

Because there’s a Guinness World Record for everything (especially when it comes to Rubik’s Cubes), this is a video of Singaporean Daryl Tan Hong An setting the record for most Rubik’s Cubes solved underwater in one breath, with a very respectable 14. For reference about how impressive that is, I

This is a short video of centenarians Bernard Littman (100) and Marjorie Fiterman (102) tying the knot at the Fountain View at Logan Square retirement home (where they met and fell in love) in Philadelphia with a combined age of 202 years and 271 days, setting the Guinness World Record.

This is a video of Rudy Mitchell setting the Guinness World Record for most dogs walked simultaneously by a single person, with a very respectable 38. Rudy walked the 38 rescue dogs for 1km from the Korean K9 Rescue in South Korea in a bid to raise awareness for animal

A drone show in China recently set the Guinness World Record for “largest aerial image formed by drones,” using a staggering 7,598 drones to create massive images in the sky. The show was a joint effort between Zhujian Planning Media and the DAMODA Intelligent Control Technology Company and took place

This is a video of Swedish pole vaulter Armand “Mondo” Duplantis beating his previous world record (the 6.25m vault he made at the 2024 Olympics) by an additional centimeter at the Diamond League Silesia, bringing the record highest vault to 6.26m, or 20.54-feet. This is the tenth time in his