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The Believers
19:05

Finding Salvation with an Online Cult

Vice's Charlet Duboc goes to LA to meet Unicole Unicron, a self-described pop-spiritual cult leader and founder of the religion Unicult
VICE News Tonight on HBO
4:01

Robotic Pets Are Helping Dementia Patients

VICE News goes and finds out what that looks like.
VICE News Tonight on HBO
5:03

This bricklaying robot can build walls faster than humans

Are robots going to steal our jobs? Meet SAM, a brick-laying bot that's boosting productivity and reducing costs, and judge for yourself.
Transmissions
5:25

Battle of the Snow Bots

The ION Autonomous Snowplow Competition in St Paul, Minnesota is a yearly gathering of top engineers, who face off to see whose unmanned snowplowing robots can clear the most snow without any human intervention.
Humans+
10:38

Living With Future Prosthetics

In this episode of Humans+, we meet Nicky Ashwell to learn about the technology behind her bionic hand and what the prosthetics of the future could look like.
The VICE Guide to Comics
4:58

An Irrefutable List of the Five Best Manga Comics of All Time

VICE's art editor Nick Gazin dives into the storied Japanese art form of manga to guide people past some common misconceptions and toward a completely objective list of the top manga comics.
Humans+
8:19

Do Nootropics Give eSports Gamers an Edge?

Ben Watley and Alex Novosad are two members of an esports team paving the way for Nootropics in professional esports.
Humans+
11:28

This Mind-Controlled Bionic Arm Can Touch and Feel

Motherboard visits Melissa Loomis, an amputee visiting Johns Hopkins University to try the Modular Prosthetic Limb, a bionic arm developed by DARPA controlled by thought.
Humans+
11:03

The Man Biohacking Encryption

Motherboard gets an early look at UKI, a prototype implant coming out in 2017 focused on encryption, built in the garage headquarters of Dangerous Things.
Motherboard Pilot Week
3:17

Whiz Kidz: The Internet

We often talk about science and the future, but what do kids actually think about the future?
Transmissions
7:29

The Robot World Championship

Go behind the scenes at the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals where teams behind the world's most advanced search and rescue robots compete.
Voyager
14:47

Inside the Japanese Hotel Staffed by Robots

Motherboard goes to Japan to visit the Henn-na Hotel, which is staffed almost entirely by robots.
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