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Chiba University's One-armed Robot Juggles Balls, Is Not A Juggalo
engadget.com 1 week, 1 day agoTwo balls, one hand? In this case, that's a definite yes, although the end result is much more appropriate for all ages. Furthering our slow creep towards engineering's Uncanny Valley , comes a cybernetic effort out of Japan's Chiba University that's made to mock our most precious clown-past time: juggling . The one-armed, three-fingered robot, shown off at the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation , utilizes a high-speed camera to track a ball's flight at 500fps and help coordinate
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Meet Shiri, The Freakishly Realistic Robotic Buttocks
forbes.com 1 week, 4 days agoIn the future, when our kids? kids are studying the origins of cybernetic humans, they will learn that one of the first pieces of the anatomy to be invented was the butt. ??And they will learn that the first robot butt was named Shiri, and its creators wanted it to be happy. Inventors at the??University ...
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