Opening a BBC ‘Towards Tomorrow’ special first shown on December 28, 1967 is a warning that mankind may already be obsolete. Population growth, pollution and a planet slipping out of human control could finish the job even without nuclear war. Intelligent machines might have to take Earth off our hands, the narration says, if only to keep life going after we have made a mess of it.
UBTECH Robotics commissioned its Industrial Humanoid Robot Super Smart Factory in Liuzhou, in China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, on September 12, 2026, with a line timed to finish one industrial humanoid every ten minutes and a planned yearly output above 10,000 machines.
NOT A HOTEL and Pokémon Sleep have set a glossy red and white sphere on a wooded lakeshore in Tomakomai, Hokkaido, about an hour south of Sapporo, and opened it for a short run of overnight stays. The guest room is a three meter sphere, close to ten feet across, formed from two molded acrylic hemispheres so the finished object reads as a life size Poké Ball sitting among trees with lake water just beyond the glass. Promotional nights run in brief windows from October 8 through 18, 2026, timed to the franchise’s 30th year and the third anniversary of the Pokémon Sleep app.
Most compact printers still trap you on receipt rolls or force a desk machine into a suitcase. ETIKEZ sized the D90E, priced at $64.59 (was $80), like a thick ruler that spans a letter page: about 10.4 inches wide, 2.3 inches deep, and 1.3 inches tall, so a sheet of 8.5 by 11 thermal paper feeds straight through a body that slides into a backpack or briefcase. Listings put the printer itself near a pound, and the kit adds a soft travel case plus a short stack of starter sheets. Heat does the work. No cartridges, toner, or ribbons sit in the bag, and the only consumable is coated thermal paper made for this machine. Ordinary copy paper will not print.
QUADMOVR is no stranger to designing, printing, and flying self-built quads, and their latest experiment swaps every propeller for a 3D printed centrifugal wheel that lives inside its own vaned case. Each unit starts as a 60 mm PETG impeller that bolts to a standard T-mount motor with two M2 screws. A matching 90 mm housing, 28 mm tall, sandwiches between the motor and the carbon arm so the spinning wheel sits inside a 0.3 mm gap. Air enters through the open center on top. Curved vanes fling it outward the way a shop blower does. Fixed vanes in the case then turn that radial blast downward, which is how four of these assemblies lift a plain movr200cp2 X frame.