Jin Yan

A water droplet on a fresh polymer film behaves like a guest on new furniture: sometimes it spreads out, sometimes it beads up. This behavior tells you how ready the surface is to repel dirt or, conversely, to hold paint. Previously, such tests were done by hand, one film at a time. Now there's a robot called PANDA-film.

A translator in a conference hall tries to convey the speaker's words, but the hall is noisy: someone coughs, chairs creak, and the street outside is loud. If the speaker lowers their voice, the translator still keeps translating, but their voice drowns in the noise.