Behold: Handle, a highly manoeuvrable logistics robot from Boston Dynamics for pallet building, conveyor loading, killing all humans and so forth. To wit:
When Handle places a boxes onto a pallet, it uses force control to nestle each box up against its neighbours. The boxes used in the video weigh about 5kg, but the robot is designed to handle boxes up to 15kg. This version of Handle works with pallets that are 1.2 m deep and 1.7 m tall.
A ten minute time-lapse of the entire 13.8 billion year history of the Universe, visualised by remixer John ‘Melodysheep’ Boswell.
Narration by Brian Cox, Carl Sagan, and David Attenborough.Each second is 22 million years. We all appear right at the end.
Want to see what happens next? Check his time-lapse of the future, right up to the heat death of the Universe, many trillions of years from now.
The logo-heavy, subverted creations of Nicole McLaughlin – Reebok graphic designer by day, Frankenstein of footwear by night.
More of her unholy yokes here.
German educational design studio Kurzgesagt ponders the following extremely important scientific problems:
What happens if we make a huge pile from all 15,000 nuclear bombs and pull the trigger? And what happens if we make an even bigger pile?
Previously: Self Aware?
‘The Secret Of the Great Pyramid’ by French artist JR – thousands of strips of paper pasted to the courtyard outsde the Louvre by 400 volunteers to create a massive ephemeral anamorphic illusion celebrating the 30th anniversary of the now iconic but once reviled Louvre Pyramid. To wit:
The sun dries the light glue and with every step, people tear pieces of the fragile paper. The process is all about participation of volunteers, visitors, and souvenir catchers. This project is also about presence and absence, about reality and memories, about impermanence.
A fully autonomous parking valet robot designed by Stanley Robotics – leave your car in its care and it’ll park it for you, then retrieve it when you return.
And then kill all humans, obviously
Behold: the Wagon Queen Family Truckster – a modified 1979 Ford Ltd Country Squire based on the four-wheeled star of ‘National Lampoon’s Vacation’ (1981) – correct in every detail from the vomit green Metallic Pea paint to faux wood panelling and missing hubcap.
Fitted with a 5.0l V8 engine and automatic transmission it is – unlike the original Griswoldmobile – reliable and ready to drive.
Up for auction (at Barrett-Jackson Palm Beach) next month.
Spotted today in the foyer of Bewleys, Grafton Street, Dublin.
Other cakeshops are available.
(Thanks Will O’Connell)
