Extremely impressive single-purpose robots designed by Japanese high school students for RoboCon 2018.
Their function? To toss water-filled bottles onto platforms at various heights, landing them right-way up with preternatural accuracy.
A thankless, pointless task which will eventually lead them to kill all humans,.
Experiments by Paris-based CGI artist lulu116 using the digital liquid simulator Flip Fluids within the open source 3D creation suite, Blender.
A promo for Unreal Engine 4 – a suite of graphics tools for designers and developers of games, simulations, and visualisations. As one commenter (presumably from a southern US state) observes:
Y’all are gonna be able to cook Thanksgiving Dinner with your graphics card.
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 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
Robotics.ovh by Gerard Ferrandez.
Take control of a roomful of adjustably jointed dancing robots, you say?
If you’re feeling especially frisky, you can even muck about with the underlying code here.
Behold: the Casio AT552 Janus – a touchscreen watch available decades before there was touchscreen anything.
Tiny but perfectly formed and fully functional 1/87th scale remote controlled vehicles in action at last November’s Faszination Modellbau in Friedrichschafen, Germany
Autonomous vehicular grocery stores, anyone?
Oh go on then.
On trial with the US supermarket chain Stop&Shop this year.
Behold: the world’s tallest outdoor lift – the 326m (1,070 feet) Bailong Elevator at Zhangjiajie National Forest Park in China.
Completed in 2002, the lift takes two minutes to convey 50 passengers at a time up a sandstone cliff face to overlook the historic site of Wulingyuan and the rock formations that inspired the Hallelujah Mountains of Pandora in James Cameron’s Avatar.
