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Marc Thorpe, Father of Robot Wars, Passes Away
Marc Thorpe, the original creator of the famed remote-controlled bot battling competition Robot Wars and godfather of today’s bot deathmatch scene, died this past Friday, Nov. 24, at the age of 77 due to complications from his long fight against Parkinson’s disease. His death was officially confirmed by his daughter Megan Feffer and on Thorpe’s…
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Adam Savage Built an Absolutely Maniacal Dart-Blasting Helmet With a Laser Sight
We’ve all been there. A dart blaster battle erupts in the office and you’re too busy with emails or spreadsheets to reach for a weapon to return fire. The solution, as Adam Savage demonstrates in the latest Tested video, is to build yourself a dart-blasting helmet that unleashes a torrent of foam projectiles wherever you…
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Self-Driving Cars? Naw, Sign Me up for a Future Where We All Ride Intelligent Robotic Unicorns
It seems inevitable that one day most vehicles won’t come with steering wheels, but who says an autonomous vehicle has to look like a traditional car? XPeng, a Chinese maker of electric vehicles, has proposed an alternate mode of autonomous transportation: a rideable robotic unicorn that provides not only transportation but companionship too.
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Grant Imahara, Mythbusters Host and Star Wars Roboticist, Dies at 49
Grant Imahara, cohost of the wildly popular TV show Mythbusters, died on Monday at the age of 49, according to a report from the Hollywood Reporter. The cause of death was reportedly a sudden brain aneurysm.