Bonobo - ‘Cirrus’ (Official Video) (by Ninja Tune)
This is a trip-happy video with a backward glace toward mid-century advertising. It includes robots too.
A department store in Japan used Kinect technology to create a new kind of marionette: one directed not (just) by strings and human will, but by strings and human will and interactive technology.
Robotic window display. Cool.
(thanks/via: theatlanticvideo)
(via theatlantic)
‘Penguin-cam’ gets up close and personal, A Sneak Peak Of The ‘Penguin Cam’ (by 13jaipals13)
Wildlife producer John Downer demonstrates how he and his team went about making a documentary about penguins.
In order to get close to them he deployed 50 special cameras disguised as rocks, eggs and penguins.
Pretty cool robotics including penguins capable of swimming with penguins for up close and personal shots.
A humanoid, robotic companion for an astronaut on the International Space Station. (article here)
(thanks/via: TheAtlantic)
Eric Smalls: Dear Mr. President video from Obama for America
Robotics can motivate! Forward to the polls.
(thanks/via BarackObama.com and YouTube)
DARPA’s goal is to build a robot capable of completing an obstacle course that would challenge an able-bodied human, says Will Oremus at Slate. Although Pet-Proto completes the tasks successfully, he ambles over impediments kind of like “a drunken sailor.”
Meet the Pet-Proto: The U.S. military’s clumsy humanoid rescue robot
(thanks/via: theweekmagazine)
![The Curiosity Rover Spins Its Wheel
[Image: NASA]
NASA and JPL are so good for a robotics fix!
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The Curiosity Rover Spins Its Wheel
[Image: NASA]
NASA and JPL are so good for a robotics fix!
(thanks/via: theatlantic)
NASA’s *Other* Rover Captures A Gorgeous Panoramic View of the Martian Landscape
Wow! Look at that. More detail here.
(thanks/via: theatlantic)
Robotic dinosaur from: In Focus - Robots at Work and Play at The Atlantic. Another bundle of large format photos of wondrous robots.
(thanks/via: The Altlantic)
Movement synchronization of a group of Nao’s (by AldebaranRobotics)
MIT Researchers programmed a group of humanoid robots from Aldebaran Robotics to dance in unison to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” by sensing their environment and coordinating their movements through a central server — rather than trying to awkwardly follow one another directly. This way, even if a robot gets out of step, it can catch up with its peers by communicating with the hub. Bacteria and some insects employ a similar technique called quorum sensing. (source)
(thanks/via: The Week
Passive Walking Robot Propelled By Its Own Weight (by Diginfonews)
(thanks/via: CubeMe)
This is so cool! PriNXT is a working printer made from Lego parts and designed by 14-year old Leon Overweel who also created a Skype controlled Lego car.
(thanks/via Lego World of MindStorms and Geek.com)
