imagine what good - and bad - things you can do with these.
found by @BLugger
A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors
AlphaDog Prototyp - another frightening robot by Boston Dynamics
via youtube.com
Remember BigDog (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNZPRsrwumQ&feature=relmfu)? Here's the update...
Bird flight deciphered by Festo SmartBird - genius and beautiful.
via youtube.com
I've watched the videos of SmartBird some time ago and simply loved it - but seeing it flying over my head yesterday in Edinburgh at TEDGlobal is something different. I admire the team and Festo for making this happen.
DIY robot is the brooding teenager you've always wanted to slap / Engadget
via engadget.com
found via Joshua Davis
NXT-606 LEGO Drum Machine by Peter Cocteau #DIY
via youtube.com
cool project, cool video, and coolest voice since Stephen Fry...
Craig Venter creates synthetic life form - Boing Boing
via boingboing.net
"We've briefed the White House..."
Another proof of "the future is now"...
read it here: http://www.jcvi.org/cms/research/projects/first-self-replicating-synthetic-ba...
A robot showing off: High Speed Adept Quattro Robot handling steel balls on conveyor
via youtube.com
watch at least until 1:07 - lol - what a poser...
OK Go's Rube Goldberg Machine
via syynlabs.com
great one!
Reminds me of the fun we had with IDEO’s Global Chain Reaction two years ago. Eight worldwide locations, six time zones, and roughly fifty people involved. It looked more like a blueprint for possible points of failure than a functioning Rube Goldberg machine designed to run sequentially across three continents:
http://labs.ideo.com/2008/10/28/the-incredible-ideo-global-chain-reaction-exp...
Gimbaled Air Jet – Video of a machine that can levitate objects in the air in three dimensions.
Thanks Adam Glazier for sharing this. And hey it even peels your onions!
