Robotic band Compressorhead cover Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ at a concert in Moscow back in 2014.
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Bulk Handling Systems’ sorting robot Max-AI AQC-C – designed to operate safely alongside human co-workers on the sorting lines of recycling plants.
Ah yeah.
Plastic packaging today, skulls tomorrow.
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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,.
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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.
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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
Last month, Japanese Space Agency JAXA’s robotic Hyabusa2 spacecraft shot and deliberately bounced off asteroid 162173 Ryugu just to see what would happen. Hardcore. To wit:
Before impact, Hayabusa2 fired a small bullet into 162173 Ryugu to scattered surface material and increase the chance that Hayabusa2 would be able to capture some. Next month, Hayabusa2 will fire a much larger bullet into Ryugu in an effort to capture sub-surface material. Near the end of this year, Hayabusa2 is scheduled to depart Ryugu and begin a looping trip back to Earth, hopefully returning small pieces of this near-Earth asteroid in late 2020. Studying Ryugu could tell humanity not only about the minor planet‘s surface and interior, but about what materials were available in the early Solar System for the development of life.
The latest in Pixar’s Spark Shorts series (you’ll recall ‘Purl’) – Brian Larsen’s tale of two ageing robots attempting to escape before they’re replaced by a new generation.
Freedom, however, does not come easy.
And here’s how they made it.
