documentaries
A Crowdfunded UAV Is Helping Ukraine’s Bootstrapped Army
The People’s Project are a volunteer group crowdfunding everything from tanks, uniforms and drones for Ukraine’s Army.
Meet John Romero, One of the Godfathers of the First-Person Shooter
The designer of DOOM and Quake takes us behind the scenes.
Watch Drone Pilots Navigate One of the First-Ever Drone Racetracks
Naturally, it's in a horse pavilion somewhere in Canada.
Meet Dona Bailey, the Unsung Programmer Behind 'Centipede'
“I guess I was a pioneer,” Dona Bailey says while shrugging.
The Most Important Models in the World
They require massive supercomputers, they simulate the Earth's future, they're poorly understood—and they're analyzed above the Seinfeld diner in New York.
Morgue Instagram: Meet the Pathologist Assistant Who Posts Autopsy Photos
Nicole Angemi, aka @mrs_angemi, is a pathologist’s assistant in real life. But online she owns one of Instagram's most controversial accounts.
Defusing Roadside Bombs with Robots
Brian Castner, a former US military bomb tech, said "The Hurt Locker" got it only partly right.
The Researcher Who Chases Drunk Fish with Robots
Maurizio Porfiri is engineering a better robot fish.
The Dawn of Killer Robots
Watch Motherboard's film on the evolving relationship between humans and robots, and what intelligent machines bode for the future of warfare and humanity.
The Mission to Clone the Woolly Mammoth
Whether or not we can clone a mammoth is the simpler question. The big one is: should we?
