A different approach to the robotic grip problem
I saw this vid on botjunkie, a site that I (and you) really should visit a lot more often. Have a looksee (you need to watch till the very end):
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I Love botjunkie! Came across this in their feed: Curious teddy… er, I mean polar bears destroy scientific equipment. Silly trusting humans! :o) [updated with BBC’s original vid]:
View ArticlePETMAN: Terminator’s great great grandaddy
So botjunkie have been subsumed by the IEEE and I didn’t know! Shame on me for not visiting them more often. But seriously… do you not quake in your boots when you behold this (even just a little...
View ArticleRobot tentacle learns to reach: “goal babbling”
I guess these are the kinds of problems baby octopii need to deal with… only, erm… eightfold. You can read the paper here and learn all about “joint spaces” or, you can just watch (stay with the vid –...
View ArticleJumping robot modules
They look kind of fun but the implications are kind of eerie/sinister :-)
View ArticleGynnies and Andies – part deux
Blimey… You turn your back for a minute… and the gynnies have whizzed through the evolutionary equivalent of a few millenia! Witness: Then there’s Chi-hira, a “communications” android… channeling a 32...
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Don’t ever Voigt-Kampff me
It’s bad when your niece IMs you to remind you of your own sister’s birthday. Especially when the niece in question is just past tweening* and is therefore old enough to bait you with circular...
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Festival of the Gynnies
I was doing some research on bots (specifically androids/gynoids) to help get me back into this short story I was writing. I love anything to do with bots, even if I have problems with some of the...
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