Dance coach Poppin John and The Robot Boys (danish dancers Nick Nitro and Jeppe Long) present a robot masterclass.
Arguably as good as anything you’ve seen up to 1.40, then just plain gobsmacking for an extended period after that.
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MIT engineers John Romanishin and Kyle Gilpin have invented a new type of modular cube robot – the M-block – that can propel itself forward with the aid of a spinning internal 20,000rpm flywheel, leap, climb and snap using magnets onto other similar bots to form larger arrays. MIT News sez:
Inside each M-Block is a flywheel that can reach speeds of 20,000 revolutions per minute; when the flywheel is braked, it imparts its angular momentum to the cube. On each edge of an M-Block, and on every face, are cleverly arranged permanent magnets that allow any two cubes to attach to each other.
The most successful performance to date of Boston Dynamics’ Wildcat robot – funded by US military tech developer DARPA’s M3 programme – a wireless, free-roaming version of the headless Cheetah (which can run faster than Usain Bolt).
The prototype, which can bound, gallop, corner and reach a top speed of 16mph (25.7km/h), has a few minor teething troubles to sort out but should be ready to hunt down and kill all humans any day now.
Director Rob McLellan’s unnerving horror short about an android and the unfortunate human object of its desire.
Interview with the director here.
Since its release, MGM has aquired the rights to turn the short into a full length feature film.
(H/T: Niall C)
Meet Rhex
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Rhex is an experimental all terrain hexapod developed as a search and rescue robot by the University of Pennsylvania.
It’s the toy you want but can’t have.
The full version of the recently trailered We Only Attack Ourselves by Dublin band Funeral Suits.
Lovely. Anyone else getting a Shins vibe?
(Thanks Niall @Rubyworks)
https://vimeo.com/67189599
Are you partial to the moodily-lit robots at all?
If so, you may like one or both of these robo-related sci-fi shorts currently on the Vimeo staff picks list:
Tonight I Strike by Dan Gaud in which a big brother desperately tries to find his abducted little sister.
And Dr Easy by Shynola (the prologue of a planned feature film based on the novel ‘The Red Men’ by Matthew De Abaitua) in which a holed-up man with a gun is approached by a medical robot sent in to negotiate with him.
Smoking Robot (graphic design students Lewis Gray & Esra Guldal) say:
Obsolete tells the story of a robot starting work in a decrepit toy factory. Trapped in the factory all its life it is curious about the outside world, watching a bird through the factory wall each day. When it mistakes a toy on the production line for the bird one day it sets the robot’s escape in motion.
The Mantis is a fearsome two-tonne all terrain hexapod robot, built by UK robotics firm Micromagic Systems.
Operated remotely or piloted by a single driver, the hexapod can be hired for corporate events, sponsorships, oppression of a cowed populace and light garden work.