JayByrd Films is known for his one-take drone videos that take you deep inside various locations with an FPV camera. In his latest video, Jay Christensen takes us on a flythrough of Texas Tech University’s football facilities, also known as the heart of Red Raider nation.
A humanoid robot steps up to a table tennis table, paddle in hand, and whacks a forehand that sends the ball flying across the net. This is UC Berkeley’s latest creation, the HumanoId Table TEnnis Robot, or HiTTER. This thing can play over 100 shots against a human and is precise, agile and a little bit human-like.
Photo credit: Heritage-Auctions
One basketball card changed the course of sports collectibles history today. Heritage Auctions sold the world’s only 2007-08 Upper Deck Exquisite Collection Michael Jordan-Kobe Bryant Dual Logoman Autographs card for $12.932 million, the highest price ever paid for a trading card at auction.
Brage Vestavik, a Red Bull sponsored Norwegian mountain biker, has made a name for himself by riding terrain that most would avoid. His latest project, Trolldom, shot in the dense forests of British Columbia, is a POV ride that feels like a high stakes dance with gravity. Shot with an action cam, this is a raw display of skill, planning and fearlessness in freeride mountain biking.
The World Humanoid Robot Games, a first time event hosted by the Beijing government, kicked off with a tech presentation that left everyone speechless. Unitree Robotics, a Chinese startup that is leading the charge in humanoid and quadruped robot research, stole the show with their 100-meter dash entry.
Allen Pan, a YouTube engineer with a love for retro projects, built an auto-trick skateboard for Activision’s Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 promotion. This clever board automates tricks like kickflips so beginners can feel like pros.
Two tennis players, Jamie Murray and Laura Robson, strapped to the roofs of SUVs tearing down a runway, hitting a tennis ball back and forth isn’t something you ever expect to see, but this was the stunt Lexus pulled off to get two Guinness World Records. They called it “Served at Speed,” and turned Duxford Airfield, a place usually home to old planes, into a wild tennis court for a day.
In Beijing’s Yizhuang Development Zone, four teams of humanoid robots duked it out in the world’s first fully autonomous 3-on-3 soccer (football) showdown, hosted by the ROBO League. Tsinghua University’s THU Robotics squad stole the show, outscoring China Agricultural University’s Mountain Sea team 5-3 in a final that was nothing short of a tech breakthrough.
Arcade games have a habit for whisking us back to carefree days. For anyone who remembers pounding away at boxer machines, testing their punch on a cushioned target, a fresh challenger has stepped up to test a different kind of might: the Decopin Buster. This bizarre Japanese invention trades fists for fingertips, daring players to flick a target with enough zing to score big.
