Superinnovators

Mother earth is so small, yet so big About 1.3 million Earths could fit inside the Sun if the Earths were squishy and packed together with no gaps. However, if you consider that the Earth is a sphere and there would be space between each one, the actual number is closer to 960,000.

Care to dance my dear? ExBody2: Advanced Expressive Humanoid Whole-Body Control project from Xuxin Cheng using Unitree G1.

German man bakes chocolate cake while running a marathon Fatih Karakaya, a comedian, banker, marathon runner and master pastry chef, completed the feat in Nov. Credit: runners_pie

Speed bumps that deploy only when someone drives too fast Actibump by the Sweden's Edeva AB group. Credit: howallthisworks

NVIDIA launches Jetson Orin Nano Super AI chip with 1.7x gain in generative AI performance for $249 This is designed for on-device AI processing in humanoids and other bots. 70 TOPS (trillion operations per second) and 25 w power rating.

Dice art. Wonderful. Credit: diceideas

Pudu unveils first full-size bipedal humanoid D9 Pre-sale coming soon. Founded in 2016, the company says it has shipped nearly 80,000 units of their non-humanoid cleaning, restaurant and factory logistics bots to date. It already has many commercial relationships with likely adopters of humanoids so one to watch for sure!

Some petrol stations in Japan have the pumps hanging from the roof More efficient use of space?

$450 open source humanoid hand control system...impressive Created by NepYope and therobotstudio. Tendon-driven!

High-speed modular bots with electrohydraulic artificial muscles They can be snapped together and rearranged for different capabilities. Developed by team from Max-Planck-Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) and University of Colorado Boulder.