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The Descriptive Camera works a lot like a regular camera—point it at subject and press the shutter button to capture the scene. However, instead of producing an image, this prototype outputs a text description of the scene. via @Chris Delbuck
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World's first 3D Chocolate Printer, on presale for $3300
by Choc Edge
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Kelley Davis When I become a billionaire...
Larry Ledbetter Dark Chocolate Only I suppose ...
Mohit Garg Wow. The possibilities!!! Would I pick this over handmade- naah! :-)
ascaso Me want.
lisa lee now that would be cool
The dolphin jetpack that lets you swim like one
by itnnews
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Tami Borger @Karen Hopewell you need to do this!!!!!!!!!!
Ryan Davis DO WANT!!
The iPhone is placed between two people having a conversation and learns to separate the two voices. At intervals of 1, 2 or 5 minutes you see different lengths of red and blue bars that show what percentage of time each speaker was talking. Nobody has to be unpleasantly exhorted - from time to time everyone will have a cursory glance at the Talk-o-Meter and adapt if he is talking too much.
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someone else Wow! That's crazy awesome
Ben Golder I could use one of those now, for 3-4 people.
Lydia Waldrop Thats funny...now computers are teaching us how much to talk..lol
Jenny M Dang. Too late.
A tiny and adorable little printer for personal use. Print out notes, reminders and updates!
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The miniature ships built by Liquid Robotics are powered by the sun and the very waves they ride on. They’re going on a trans-Pacific voyage to explore parts of the ocean never before seen, and sending data back the whole time.
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Dave Fowler @Ben Silbermann yeah saw that yesterday. They look super awesome! @Zain Asgar and I have been plotting a robotic sailboat that would pretty much do the same thing. Using the waves is probably smarter and more robust... but not quite as cool.
In an experiment that opens a new chapter in human-machine interaction, a French research team has demonstrated how a robot can control both its own arm and a person’s arm to manipulate objects in a collaborative manner. The robot controls the human limb by sending small electrical currents to electrodes taped to the person's forearm and biceps, which allows it to command the elbow and hand to move. In the experiment, the person holds a ball, and the robot a hoop; the robot, a small humanoid, has to coordinate the movement of both arms to successfully drop the ball through the hoop. / cc @Ben Golder @Evan Sharp
by spectrummag
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Ben Golder "Robot, make my arms make me a sandwich!"
Spiders are very agile, and some can even jump. They owe this capability to their hydraulically operated limbs. Researchers have now designed a mobile robot modeled on the same principle that moves spider legs. Created using a 3-D printing process, this lightweight can explore terrain that is beyond human reach.
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Emily Bachinsky I got goosebumps just looking at this picture!! Don't let it explore near me!
Ginger Brown-Young @Jason Young here's something you'll like!
Michal Migurski Hope they can make it bark.
Joshua Walker Didn't they have something like this in Tom Cruise's Minority Report...?
The Petman is buff by robot standards. The Terminator-like robot, made by Boston Dynamics, is the first to walk like a human. But it doesn’t stop there - Petman can walk, kneel, do push-ups, and even break a sweat.
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Matthew Carlson Has no one there seen terminator or the matrix, don't they know where this thing ends?
The robots beneath stuffed animals
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Ryan Alexander oh wow this is gold.
Michal Migurski Oh yeah: http://s3.amazonaws.co...
Sha Hwang @Michal Migurski i wanted to pin that one but it kind of freaks me out
Hello, I am Origo. I am a 3D printer for ten year olds.
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Australian scientists have invented a new breed of robots called Lingodroids, programmed to make, use, and share language. The bots can coin words to describe places they have been, places they want to go, and plans for getting there. “When they need a new word, they invent one,” says Janet Wiles, a cognitive scientist at the University of Queensland who leads an interdisciplinary team on the project.
by ruthjschulz
Fictitious heavy equipment / Lego
by kwi-chang
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Leigh White Looks like a badass Transformer to me..cool!
Dr Dario and Dr Stefanini have built a device called Lampetra, which is made of circular segments modelled on the lamprey’s cartilaginous vertebrae. Each segment has an electromagnet attached to it, and these are activated by a current that flows from head to tail in more or less the way that a nerve signal flows in a real animal. A segment therefore first attracts and then releases the next, creating a wavelike movement that propels the robot forward.
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So far, Dr Laschi’s robot is not so much an octopus as a monopus, but she plans to correct this over the next two years by adding seven more arms and a control system that can co-ordinate them all.
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Josh Draper I, for one, welcome our Octobot overlords
Enid Hwang How The Economist could ignore such a fantastic opportunity to mention Dr. Octopus is beyond me.
Sha Hwang They're waiting for the Seaquel
Enid Hwang I don't know what you're Goblin about.
"Like Microsoft’s Photosynth service, Photofly stitches together images using stereo photogrammetry, using visual cues to reverse-engineer the geometric properties of objects. But Photofly also creates 3-D object files in various formats that can be imported into computer-aided design programs. Thus the images can be printed, reproduced, manipulated and mixed with other 3-D models. In other words, the scene from Mission Impossible 3 where surreptitiously snapped photos of a villain are transformed into a mask of his face seems less remote."
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Dragonfly Insectothopter Developed by CIA’s Office of Research and Development in the 1970s, this micro Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) was the first flight of an insect-sized aerial vehicle (Insectothopter). It was an initiative to explore the concept of intelligence collection by miniaturized platforms.
from Flickr
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Lori Calderone same idea in Brazzaville by William Boyd. Who was first?!
"Made a model of a robot as a birthday card once. Was made of card so it still qualified as a card, Ha! You can download the PDFs here and print them yourself, or send me a small number of quids and I'll send you a pack of parts ready printed onto the proper weight of bonny coloured card."
by Euphy
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Japan Develops Flying Sphere – Quidditch Closer to Reality / made from parts found in Akihabara of course
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Mech Warrior / Specially designed for kids, adults will just have to find their kicks elsewhere. The Kid’s Walker stands proud at 1.6 meters tall, tipping the scales at 340kg and runs on gas. So far, Sakakibara claimed to have sold 8 units at $22,100 a pop – and that, my friends, is before tax.
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wooden flip switch box / when the switch is flipped on, the box flips it off again / video is epic
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Hannah Lawrence i really enjoyed that. thank you.
Sha Hwang @Hannah Lawrence you're welcome, aren't the faces great?
japan makes cat ears that move in response to your emotional state
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Swarms of wifi-enabled flying robots are being tested to establish emergency rescue networks following natural disasters. The swarming behavior of the robots are based on insect movements.
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Squishy design doorknob that doubles as an air hornDesign
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Quadrotors build structures / what the fuck! crazy!
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Sha Hwang @Ben Golder have you seen this?
Ben Golder woah. Can we attach millions of them to a huge building, and then fly around in it?
Ben Golder Or maybe they could combine them with ANTS to create giant swarming autonomous tetrahedron structures. That would be sweet. http://ants.gsfc.nasa....
Ouroborus / infinite falling dominoes / video here: www.youtube.com/w...
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Edouard Martinet makes cool scrap metal sculpture of insects, birds and fish.
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Cutter generates 3-d digital models via crafting polystyrene foam
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Trace Modeler is an application that uses real-time video to create 3d geometry / blows minds, sculpts video
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Robot Beanbag hand creeps me out, sounds awesome, continues freaking me out
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This is a bucket-wheel excavator, one of the largest mobile machines in the world and is used in surface mining. It can dig a hole the length of a football field 25 meters deep in one day. Imagine what it is doing to the surface of Earth.
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Programmable Origami
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Incognita Nom de Plume You should check out Matt Gardiner's Oribots
ETH makes a robot that balances itself screechingly
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Fetching pins…
$3,300.00
$22,100.00
Debi Spear Far out! Very cool :-)
Fingers Delaurus Cept it would be useful if hooked to a speech synthetiser.
Fingers Delaurus Like, if you can read the description, you may as well look at the sight, right ?
Bini Matthews well dis might go far into the field of robotics though, a step up fer sensing abilities maybe? :)
Alex A. Kecskes Not bad. But I wonder how it would describe a beautiful sunrise or child's smile.