Self-assembling swarmbots are amazing, and look creepily alive
Researchers at MIT have created cube-shaped modular robots that can flip, jump, and assemble themselves into any number of configurations. And remarkably, they have no external parts. They’re called M-Blocks, and they’re able to move by virtue of an internal flywheel mechanism that can reach speeds of 20,000 revolutions per minute. And when the flywheel…
The first new Godzilla movie footage is monstrously awesome
This first footage from Gareth Edwards’s upcoming American Godzilla movie — which unfortunately Warner Bros. has taken off YouTube —is simple, reassuring, and incredibly effective. Here are a few comments on what we saw. The quote playing over the video is from Manhattan Project participant J. Robert Oppenheimer, which is obviously quite appropriate. “Now I…
