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This fascinating training exercise is used by Toyota to evaluate hand-eye coordination, precision, speed…

Explosive hydroforming is a metal-forming technique in which a controlled detonation underwater generates a…

This video shows a highly skilled electrician transforming a chaotic mess of electrical wires in a…

Every drop was scheduled by a computer. 🤖 🌧 For Gatorade's Water Made Active campaign, engineers built a…

Pop-up selfie cameras briefly gave smartphones truly uninterrupted displays, with Vivo’s 2018 NEX using a…

Nature has inspired some of humanity’s greatest technological innovations, and even NASA continues studying…

Researchers have digitized just 1 cubic millimeter of the human brain. The resulting file took up 1.4…

What if you could literally fly through a software codebase? Developer Rik Arends has built a 3D source-code…

Shield AI’s X-BAT is an AI piloted VTOL fighter aircraft designed to operate without relying on traditional…

The line between humans and machines is becoming harder to recognize. This behind-the-scenes footage shows…

Your AI agent doesn’t need your laptop running 24/7. 👀🤖 Meet Lapis One — a tiny Linux computer designed by…

Those small dumbbell-shaped devices attached to high-voltage power lines aren't decorative—they're called…

A teacher at Zhejiang University showed up to an Open Day event wearing a jet suit, fired up the engines…

None of these environments were filmed, as NVIDIA’s Zorah technology demo showcases an extraordinarily…

Yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) are built like hydrodynamic torpedoes, reaching explosive swimming speeds…

This Chinese electric vehicle demonstrates advanced suspension technology designed for real-time…

Most people see a small metal square. Engineers see one of the most complex machines ever created. Beneath…

In October 2023, a reactor near Oxford called JET set a world record 69 megajoules of energy in 5 seconds…

Sea Wave Energy’s Waveline Magnet takes a completely different approach to generating renewable energy.…

Xynova’s Prima1 is an 850g robotic hand with 22 active degrees of freedom, designed to reproduce fast…

Every time you learn something new, your brain begins processing, connecting, and storing information. New…

The real story behind this frantic camera movement captures the genuine global terror of the Y2K bug. In the…

Osaka is home to one of the world’s most remarkable defenses against natural disasters. These massive…

This sleeve goes in soft as fabric and cures into solid pipe 🧵 💧 The method is called cured-in-place pipe…