Based Mechanics

Engineering, science, and technology.

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NASA has released new images from the Perseverance mission on Mars. Caught in a dust storm. Hopefully doesn’t clog up the sensors too much.

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A Chinese military robot dog. Cute or terrifying?

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The robot fish with potential military use was co-developed by American scientists with the Chinese military.

It’s the Chinese dragonfish robot Robolab-GL.

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Man's best friend is a robot dog armed with a heavy machine gun.

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Underpaid laborers at a Temu sorting center. Machine automation fixes this.

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In 2020, a Japanese store tested out VR-enabled telepresence by allowing a robot to be controlled remotely by a guy in a headset. Not sure this went anywhere, but it's a cool concept.

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Watermelon seed extraction machines are designed to efficiently extract oil from watermelon seeds. No, you won't get seedless watermelons from these.

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This tool lets you form waffle cones. Pretty easy!

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An Airbus Beluga, or A300-600ST is a super wide-body airliner used to transport aircraft parts and outsized cargo.

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Mmm, delicious taffy.

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They stack shipping containers really high, so the equipment you need to get them down from there needs to be just as long.

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Have you ever wondered how silicone is molded into shape? There's a press for that.

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This is a shoemaker's awl. In layman's terms, it's used to poke holes in the leather so you can handstitch the shoe together.

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There's a ton of ways you can shape rolls. Here's a few.

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This is a shaker. It suspends a vehicle and applies vertical loads at high frequencies to analyze vehicle response across specific road profiles.

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This is a router duplicator, also known by a host of other names, that uses a woodworking router to carve 3D wooden items.

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This machine is called a rotary car dumper, also known as the wagon tipper. It's designed to unload certain kinds of rail cars by holding it to a section of track and then rotating the track and car together to dump out the contents.