Improbable’s final (previous here) look at the RO-MAN Workshop 2012. – the 21st IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, which was held September 9-13, Paris, France. Part 3 : Floating-in-the-air ‘bot ‘Humanoid’ robots go back a long way, and nowadays there are numerous flying robots in the skies, but there are very […]
Tag: flight
Pyramids can fly, under certain circumstances
Pyramids can fly, under certain circumstances. This new study explains: “Intrinsic Stability of a Body Hovering in an Oscillating Airflow,” Bin Liu, Leif Ristroph, Annie Weathers, Stephen Childress, and Jun Zhang, Physical Review Letters, 108, 068103 (2012). The authors, at New York University, explain that in their experimental setup [pictured below]: “weight support and orientational […]
Dog-flighting: Bulldog on a zipline
The maker of this brief video says: I filmed this in June 2010 during our honeymoon stay at Finca Bellavista; a tree-house community located in the southern zone of Costa Rica. Kimbo Slice is the resident bulldog and loves to zipline around the skytrail, a network of zipline trails around the property. [via Jerry James […]
Man-bearing squirtgun
Behold a device called the JetLev flyer (thanks to Wendell Maradonna for bringing it to our attention). The manufacturer opines: “A flexible water supply hose delivers power to the jetpack with pressurized water. It also serves as the tether, enforces a flight ceiling, discourages the pilot from flying over land, acts as a stabilizer, dampens […]