This weekend, the fastest sprinters on the planet came together at the Tokyo Olympics to compete for the gold in the 100-meter dash. Lamont Marcell Jacobs crossed the finish line in 9.80 seconds to bring Italy its first gold in the event. In the women's race, Jamaica won the gold, silver, and bronze--a clean sweep led by Elaine Thompson-Herah, who smashed through a 33-year-old Olympic women's record with a time of 10.61 seconds. But neither of them could touch the legacy of Jamaica's eight-time Olympic gold medalist Usain Bolt, who retired in 2017 but still boasts the title of fastest human alive. Bolt ran the 100 meters in 9.58 seconds.

This blog post begins with a joke about two people in a forest and a bear. A bear appears out of nowhere and starts to chase these two guys during their walk in the forest. Surprised, they both start running for their lives, but then one of them stops to put on his running shoes. His buddy says, "What are you doing? You can't outrun a bear!" His buddy replies, "I don't have to outrun the bear; I only have to outrun you!"

If the only thing more terrifying to you than a spider is a spider chasing you, you're not going to want to watch this video of Festo's latest creation. Using eight reconfigurable legs, the BionicWheelBot can creepily crawl along the ground, but then transform into a wheel and roll at an alarming speed. Someone find me a gigantic rolled up newspaper. Unlike Boston Dynamic's creations, such as SpotMini and ATLAS--robots that seem specifically engineered to supplant humanity--Festo's machines are typically far less intimidating; Robotic flying butterflies and hopping kangaroos are more fascinating than fearsome. But the BionicWheelBot, inspired by the real-life flic-flac spider that's known for doing cartwheels to quickly escape a predator, is equal parts technical marvel and terror for anyone who's uneasy around creepy-crawlies. From a functional point of view, the robot's ability to transform makes it ideal for tackling various types of terrain.

Small businesses cannot afford to wait or ignore artificial intelligence and leave it to big companies and universities. Here are cost effective strategies to save money, build experience and gain advantages over the competition. When you hear artificial intelligence (AI), you may think of things like "The Terminator," top research universities or huge tech companies like Google, Amazon and Microsoft. For small businesses, the topic may seem too complicated and or too expensive to deal with, and the natural reaction may be to ignore it and go back to work. But you can't afford to ignore AI.