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Custom 3D Printable Elden Ring Chess Set
Designed by 3D artist Noggi, this chess set features characters from Elden Ring’s Lands Between. I thought I recognized that knight! Granted, I was hoping I wouldn’t run into him again after he repeatedly killed me in the game, but my luck has never been that good. Noggi…
Augmented Reality Vehicle Windows With Eye Tracking Technology
Developed at Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) and set for public unveiling at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2024, the Augmented Reality Interactive…
Test Firing An AI-Generated, 3D Printed Rocket Engine
Developed by Dubai-based engineering firm LEAP71 using their Large Computational Engineering Model, Noyron RP, this rocket engine was designed entirely with artificial intelligence in…
Massive Autonomous Underwater Drone Inspired By Manta Rays
In development for the past four years by Northrup Grumman for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Manta Ray is a long-range…
Flexible Armed Drone Can Squeeze Through Gaps Narrower Than It Is
Developed by researchers at the Autonomous Robots Lab (ART) at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Morphy is a small, autonomous drone…
Woodworker Turns AI Rendered Car Into The Real Thing
After using an artificial intelligence program to render an out-of-this-world car, woodworker Trương Văn Đạo of the YouTube channel ND Woodworking Art got to…
Building A Real Extending Lightsaber
Constructed by Youtuber HeroTech, this lightsaber extends and retracts to look like the ones from the Star Wars movies. Granted, it doesn’t extend and…
HumanPlus Humanoid Robot Learns Tasks Autonomously By Copying Humans
Developed by Stanford University researchers, HumanPlus is a humanoid robot capable of learning to perform tasks by copying human movements. As long as it…