Behold Clothbot, a small machine that climbs clothing: The inventors presented technical details: “System and Design of Clothbot: a Robot for Flexible Clothes Climbing,” Yuanyuan Liu, Xinyu Wu, Huihuan Qian, Duan Zheng, Jianquan Sun and Yangsheng Xu [Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese University of Hong Kong], paper presented at 2012 IEEE International Conference on […]
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Further Info for Skyscraper Stairway Climbers
Upper floor residents of skyscrapers, at least those upper floor residents who habitually climb stairs rather than ride elevators to their homes, can find useful information in this new study: “The Energy Expenditure of Stair Climbing One Step and Two Steps at a Time: Estimations from Measures of Heart,” Lewis G. Halsey, David A. R. […]
He climbed a chimney to see an asteroid
The strange story (stranger still as told here, machine-translated into English by the Chrome browser) of a strange man with a strangely strong desire to see an asteroid, reported (in French) in Est Republicain: He Wanted to See The Asteroid: A Madman Stuck on a Chimney A madman who wanted to see the passage of […]