Subjects: General

Soth Korea’s Future Robot Lab hopes personal robots will soon be as common as smartphones.

Korean engineer Soon-Geul Lee’s robotic mannequin takes window displays to a whole new level.

Getting around Tokyo’s sidewalks just got easier for the elderly and disabled with Hitachi’s self-driven single-passenger vehicle.

Inventor Lucien Gambarota is obsessed with finding simple ways to harness energy.

Inventor and Artist Viktor Jan plays with his food to create music.

The world’s only elephant hospital in Thailand fits prosthetic legs to elephants who lost their limbs to land mines.

Yoshiro Nakamatsu claims to be the world’s most prolific inventor, with more than 3,000 inventions under his belt.

We visit the Hong Kong Jockey Club at the Happy Valley Race Course to test a high-tech betting system that uses the world’s largest multi-touchscreen table.

Kenji Ishida built the world’s first miniature transforming robot that actually works.

Ziya wonders if animals like bat-eating spiders, praying mantises, and Burmese pythons bite off more than they can chew.