Royal Marines board a ship using a jet pack
The Royal Marines recently ran an exercise testing the $440,000 Gravity Jet Suit to aid in boarding operations and it looks like something out of a James...
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A guy was spotted on a hoverboard in Los Angeles
A guy was spotted riding a hoverboard down a Los Angeles street. The hoverboard is made by Omni Hoverboards and it's basically a giant quadcopter drone you...
Adidas is creating robot-woven sneakers with 3D-printed soles
Adidas has developed a technique of merging robot-woven sneakers with 3D-printed soles to create automated custom footwear in a project they're calling STRUNG. This is why we...
Researchers convert a 3D printer into a sandwich making machine
Mechanical engineer Yuto Kuroki of Meiji University and colleagues hacked a 3D printer head to use as a 3-axis robotic manipulator to enable more advanced fabrication techniques...
Teaching a Boston Dynamics Spot robot to pee beer
Michael Reeves took one of the most advanced robots ever designed and taught it to pee beer. Or, more specifically, he programmed it to locate cups and...
Monkey plays 'MindPong' with his Neuralink.
Elon Musk's Neuralink startup has released this video of a nine year old macaque playing "MindPong" with his Neuralink. Today we are pleased to reveal the Link's...
This autonomous tracking drone is frighteningly capable
This is a video putting Skydio's Skydio 2 autonomous tracking drone to the test and it works frighteningly well. First they track a person running through the...
Boston Dynamics has a new robot named Stretch
Boston Dynamics has introduced a new robot named Stretch designed for automating box moving tasks in warehouses and distribution centers. Stretch's mobile base allows it to go...
Drone footage of a guy testing out Tesla's "Full Self Driving" Autopilot on uprotected left turns
This is a video of Chuck Cook repeatedly testing Tesla's "Full Self Driving" Autopilot on unprotected left turns. He uses a drone to capture footage from above...
Epic's MetaHuman Creator, a tool to create realistic real-time digital humans
MetaHuman Creator is a cloud-streamed tool for creating realistic real-time digital humans that can be animated in Unreal Engine. MetaHuman Creator is a cloud-streamed app that takes...
This guy made a bot that turns Reddit arguments into Ace Attorney
User micah made a bot that turns Reddit comments into scenes from the video game Ace Attorney. You can add !objection-bot to any Reddit comment thread and...
DALL-E is a neural network that generates images from text captions
Researchers at OpenAI have created a neural network called DALL-E (named after Pixar's WALL-E and artist Salvadore Dali) that creates images from text captions. As long as...
Tesla Autopilot drives from Los Angeles to San Francisco with no human intervention
This is a video of Tesla's Full Self-Driving Autopilot driving from the SpaceX headquarters in Los Angeles to San Francisco with zero human intervention. Tesla Autopilot FSD...
The Boston Dynamics robots can dance now
To celebrate the upcoming New Year, the folks at Boston Dynamics released this video of all of their robots dancing to "Do You Love Me". I'm sure...
A swarm of drones flying through heavy forest while staying in formation
Researchers have figured out a way to navigate a swarm of drones through randomly spaced trees while maintaining formation: The approach builds on a single-drone navigation technique,...
SpaceX Starship explodes during attempted landing after successful test flight
The SpaceX Starship SN8 prototype had its first successful high-altitude test flight yesterday, though it came in a little too hot during the landing and ended up...
Somebody built an actual functional flying car
Klein Vision completed the maiden voyage of it's flying AirCar prototype last week, finally making a reality what no actual person wants to be a reality. The...
Using AI to remove objects from photos and video
Researchers have figured out a way to use AI to fill in gaps in images, essentially automating the ability to seamlessly erase objects from photos or video....