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Can one video convince you that robots will take over?

Eric Skiff says:

I’ve seen some pretty crazy hexapod robot demos, but there’s something so creepily organic and amazing about this one that while watching it I simply said “That’s it. Robots are going to kill us all.”

I mean, how do you fight something like this on a bigger scale? It’s precise, fast, smooth and handles that soda like a pro while doing all sorts of other maneuvers.

So, maybe it’s a pretty big leap from fetching a drink to world domination, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen a video that evoked such a clear sense of what robots of the future will be able to do. Put some heftier servos in this guy and make it out of metal, and you’ve got yourself one terrifying all-terrain machine.

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Dude.

I mean, wow.

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Posted by Eric Skiff  9 months ago

This little robot needs help…

Eric Skiff says:

Okay, this is adorably geeky. Kacie Kinzer at ITP put this little robot that only drives straight in Washington Square Park, with a note attached to it asking people to help it get to it’s destination. I wish I’d seen this little guy puttering along through there!

I love the blend of science and sociology that this represents. It gives me some ideas, and the happy outcome speaks well of humanity in general… :)

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[Kacie Kinzer] put together an interesting social experiment: Could a robot navigate purely by the help of strangers?
on the first run it was able to traverse through Washington Square Park in just 42 minutes with the help of 29 people
This is part of [Kacie]’s thesis work at ITP and she has many other bots planned.Read more at hackaday.com
 
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Posted by Eric Skiff  10 months ago

Quadcopters + WiFi = Disaster Communications

Nick Farr says:

Ok, this is truly regeekulous.  Using quadcopters, those flying robots popularized at the Chaos Communications Congresses as a means of setting up WiFi in disaster areas to enable communication.  (Apologies for the multiple postings, I guess I’m still learning how to clip properly…)

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Flying robots to provide Wi-Fi in disaster zones
A group of academics is attempting to use flying “quadcopter” robots as a means of deploying self-assembling ad-hoc wireless networks.

The group, led by Professor Andreas Mitschele of the Ilmenau University of Technology, claims that they could be used in the event of disasters, when standard infrastructure is destroyed.

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Posted by Nick Farr  11 months ago

R2D2 Chorus Line

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What’s better than a chorus line of voice activated dancing R2-D2 droids?

Want your own dancing R2-D2? These are the Star Wars Interactive Electronic R2-D2 Astromech Droid which is available on Amazon or you can build your own.

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Eric Skiff says:

This is an amazing find by Scott Beale!

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Posted by Eric Skiff  1 year ago

Now that’s some halloween dedication!

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Aliens Powerloader Halloween CostumeRead more at blog.makezine.com
 

Eric Skiff says:

Wow, I can only imagine how long this took to put together. Amazing work.

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Posted by Eric Skiff  1 year ago

Flute playing humanoid robot

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Classical musicians could have good reason to be worried as scientists have developed a musical robot that makes no mistakes.

And the robot has been designed with a human-like quality that allows it to engage with the audience, making in a contender for concert performances.

Musical robot

High-speed: All of the robots fingers can open and close the flute keys in 8 Hz

It even has an in-built mechanism to create vibrato, which can take human players years to master, that changes the amplitude and frequency of the robot’s airflow.

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Eric Skiff says:

This is really amazing. Taking such a humanoid approach to this machine has allowed them to get an extremely organic sound of a very non-organic system. Outstanding.

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Posted by Eric Skiff  1 year ago