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Ars Electronica Futurelab fitted 49 quadrotors with LED lights and programmed them for an extraordinary nighttime display
Music: Y by Monophobe
Boston Dynamics has improved the performance of its DARPA-funded quadruped robot over the last year.
It can run at 28.3mph now – 0.5mph faster than Usain Bolt.
An appropriate welcoming ceremony will be organised for our new Cheetahbot overlord once it leaves the treadmill and acquires a head.
Though it’s not entirely clear what beef they have with each another in the first place, a crew of lovable droids solve their differences ‘the only way dubstep robots know how’.
Made by Fluxel Media and set to music by Nostalgia.
(Hat tip: Paul Quigley)
Now, before you rush to welcome our prescient new robo-overlords, a boffin at Ishikawa Oku Laboratory sez:
Recognition of human hand can be performed at 1ms with a high-speed vision, and the position and the shape of the human hand are recognized. The wrist joint angle of the robot hand is controlled based on the position of the human hand. The vision recognizes one of rock, paper and scissors based on the shape of the human hand. After that, the robot hand plays one of rock, paper and scissors so as to beat the human being in 1ms.
This technology is one example that show a possibility of cooperation control within a few miliseconds. And this technology can be applied to motion support of human beings and cooperation work between human beings and robots etc. without time delay.
http://vimeo.com/43455552
http://vimeo.com/33408157
A promo for The Marmalade – specialists in slow motion photography – who employ a proprietary high-speed motion robotic arm control system called ‘Spike’ to capture otherwise impossibly precise tracking shots.
A giant marionette robot, a woodpecker and the power of the heart.
Directed by Yves Geleyn at Hornet Inc.
Two minutes of sweetness.
Mmf.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlKaao8gdX8&feature=youtu.be
They’re calling him Squee-3pio.
Shaun O’Boyle writes:
Science Gallery [Pearse Street, Trinity College, Dublin 2] has a visitor I wanted to tell you about. This break-dancing robot by Intel can also do Tai Chi (top), be existential (above), and provide beaucoup de squee (see video). You can visit him (/her?) at Science Gallery on Tuesday or Wednesday this week as part of Intel’s Today is so Tomorrow exhibition (admission is free!)
Stroke victim Cathy Hutchinson paralysed for 15 years uses a brain implant to control a robotic arm. Cathy is only one of two people with the implant and this is the first public demonstration of the technology.
Reach and grasp by people with tetraplegia using a neurally controlled robotic arm (nature)
A collaboration between the nice people at Epipheo and Doctor of Robotics Daniel H. Wilson, the author of How To Survive A Robot Uprising and Robopocalypse yields this handy survival guide.
Listen up. Some day soon, this could save your life.