The Future Of Robots

Watch this video featuring Hod Lipson as he discusses the future of robots. Hod Lipson shows some of his robots, which have the ability to learn, understand themselves and even self-replicate. Learn...

The Future of Robots

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Lunar Robots May Jump Instead Of Moonwalk

Legged robots offer a lot more flexibility than wheeled robots do when it comes to moving over uneven terrain, like the types of surfaces you might expect to find on the moon. As the Apollo astronauts discovered, however, walking on the moon is much easier said than done, and the most effective bipedal gait turned out to be a sort of robot-unfriendly bouncy trotting run.

Lunar Robots May Jump Instead Of Moonwalk

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Great robots of antiquity

Dark Roasted Blend does a roundup of wonderful, ingenious automata of ages past -- the early clockwork robots that boggled crowds with their ticktock liveliness: "As watch making developed in the Age of Enlightenment in the eighteenth century, so did the art of creating mechanical people and animals. Jacques Vaucason created numerous working figures, including a flute player, which actually played the instrument, in 1738, plus this duck from 1739. The gilded copper bird could sit, stand, splash around in water, quack and even give the impression of eating food and digesting it:"

Great robots of antiquity

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Juggling Robots: Now With Two Balls

Paul posted a comment on that single ball juggling quadrotor video from yesterday to tip us off to a robot from his lab at the University of Washington that can juggle two balls. It’s not juggling while flying, but arguably that takes even more skill, since a stationary platform (especially one that doesn’t tilt) is less tolerant of variation. And managing to juggle two ping pong balls using a platform that size is damn impressive.

Juggling Robots: Now With Two Balls

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