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MachinePix Weekly: Top Posts of 2021

A look back at the Top Ten posts of 2021—some expected, many not 🛀🍁

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Jan 2, 2022
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Now that it’s 2022 for everyone in the world (looking at you, American Samoa (SST) and Niue (NUT) UTC-11:00), it’s time to look back at the most popular @machinepix posts of 2021 based on analytics.twitter.com.

I realize this is unfair to later posts which have had less time to steep in the broth of the Internet, so take the following with a grain of salt.


#10: Bold Bathtub on a Buggy

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Roll-out bathtub at the Auberge aux 4 Vents hotel
8:28 PM ∙ Aug 11, 2021
2,306Likes393Retweets

Absurdity always seems to perform well, and this is no exception. For you superfans, go forth and live your best life.


#9: Soothing Seascape Sculpture by Sylvain

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Wooden Migaloo 06 kinetic sculpture by Sylvain Gautier.
11:41 PM ∙ Jan 14, 2021
22,946Likes5,611Retweets

Sylvain’s seascapes were much appreciated this year. Poor guy makes amazing sculptures only to be out-SEO’d by a Fire Emblem character 🥲


#8: Terrifying Tree-trimming Technology

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Trimming trees near power lines with an aerial saw mounted on a helicopter.
9:37 PM ∙ Oct 13, 2021
3,686Likes547Retweets

I have a confession: every few months I post a version of this when I’m in a pinch for new material. It’s such a wild piece of machinery that people love it every time 😅


#7: Alarming Atlas Android Accidents

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Boston Dynamics Atlas parkour failures.
4:40 PM ∙ Aug 17, 2021
8,733Likes2,282Retweets

Poor Atlas, destined to be scapegoated as a harbinger of a robot uprising when it succeeds, and laughed at when it fails. It’s tough being a robot.


#6: Radical Ring Receptacle

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Ring box with a Möbius kaleidocycle mechanism by enjoydof.com
11:11 PM ∙ Feb 10, 2021
32,369Likes9,518Retweets

I got to interview Brian Ignaut about his creations in 2020!


#5: Adorable Automaton

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Baby Groot robot by Disney Research, designed to be a free-roaming character around Disney theme parks.
11:50 PM ∙ May 6, 2021
10,449Likes1,350Retweets

Disney Research publishes some incredible technical work and has a fascinating YouTube channel.


#4: Humongous Hydraulic Hole

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Open spillway gate at the Funil Hydroelectric Power Plant in Rio de Janeiro.
6:03 PM ∙ Apr 22, 2021
5,516Likes1,416Retweets

Dams are a technology that keeps on giving gifs.


#3: Macaque Masters Mind-over-Matter

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A macaque plays pong with a @neuralink wireless brain-machine interface while drinking a banana smoothie.
5:31 PM ∙ Apr 9, 2021
21,122Likes2,818Retweets

Brain-machine interfaces are fraught with ethical and philosophical considerations (and rightfully so), but damn this is pretty cool.


#2: Robotic Rack Rovers

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SqUID warehouse logistics robot by Bionic Hive.
8:14 PM ∙ Jan 12, 2021
59,125Likes8,775Retweets

I think the reason this made #2 is because Elon Musk commented on it. For the sake of accuracy I should have mentioned the video is sped up.


#1: Mass Manufactured Marijuana

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Cannabis pre-roll joint filler by lbs. Distribution.
8:50 PM ∙ Jun 3, 2021
8,867Likes1,639Retweets

Congrats to drugs for winning the War on Drugs! Honestly didn’t expect this one to be the winner this year but here we are.


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