Guinness

In the long list of tasks we'd like humanoid robots to perform for us, shooting hoops is probably close to the bottom. But the CUE6 bot from Toyota recently set its second Guinness World Record, for the farthest basketball shot by a humanoid robot.

Whitelock's eye-popping 48-cylinder "Tinker Toy" was built to put a full stop on an escalating arms race in the UK custom motorcycle scene – and it certainly did, becoming one of the world's most outrageous and iconic motorcycles in the process.

Venkata Karthik Tupili recently broke the Guinness World Record for the longest journey by motorcycle in a single country, covering a total of 140,094.1 km across India. His journey spanned more than 450 days, where he averaged around 350 km per day.

Aided by titanium shoes and a slightly modified Kawasaki Ninja H2 SX, motorcycle stunt rider Jonny Davies has added another Guinness World Record to his accomplishments for what's got to be one of the more thrilling events included in the compendium.

A Mitsubishi Electric robot that normally positions wires in motors for appliances like air conditioners has solved the Rubik’s Cube puzzle at a blistering speed, setting a new Guinness World Record in the process.

Last year, a mechanical engineer set a Guinness World Record for the fastest battery-powered RC quadcopter, which was clocked at 224 mph. Now that record has been smashed by a custom-made drone that clocked nearly 300 mph.

A four-legged robotic dog called HOUND has demonstrated an unprecedented level of agility and speed, clocking the fastest 100-meter dash ever achieved by a quadruped robot and setting a new Guinness World Record in the process.

A team of students from Technical University of Munich has set a new official bar for the longest-range electric vehicle. The team's aero-sculpted single-seat Muc022 was able to travel over 2,573 km on just one charge of its 15.5-kWh battery.

As Season 9 of the ABB Formula E World Championships comes to a close in London, a modified Gen3 electric race car has smashed a two-year-old indoor speed record set by Porsche with a top speed of 218.71 km/h.

Last year, Italian multinational transport company Iveco launched an electric version of its "iconic" Daily workhorse diesel van. Now the eDaily has gone way beyond its towing capacity to drive into the Guinness World Record books.

A student team from TU Delft presented the latest Eco-Runner in May, a hydrogen-powered city car concept designed to be more than a hundred times more fuel-efficient than modern fossil-fuel vehicles. Now the car has set a Guinness distance record.

In 2016, the Swiss Grimsel hyper-mini set the Guinness World Record for fastest 0-100 km/h electric car acceleration at 1.513 seconds. Now, GreenTeam from the University of Stuttgart brings the record back to Germany by breaking the 1.5-sec mark.