Chemical & Engineering News produced this video of a soft-bodied robot that undulates. The narrator sounds as if she is trying to impersonate the robot: C&EN gives more details in an accompanying article, which says: Led by George M. Whitesides, the scientists have constructed an all-polymer robot that can crawl and undulate backward and forward, even […]
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A Robot plays “Operation” at Johns Hopkins
In this music video, a robot at the Johns Hopkins University Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics (LCSR) plays the game Operation. The video also features Featuring PhD students Carol Reiley, Tom Tantillo and Kel Guerin. (HT Erica Emmons)
The Hooman kiss-transmission robot
Videos don’t lie, it is said (though said seldomly). Here are videos of the kiss-transmission robot and its relatives. The man behind (or between?) the kiss is said to be Hooman Samani [pictured here], Hooman being at the National University of Singapore. He lists among his publications: H. A. Samani, A. D. Cheok, N. Fernando […]
Headline of the Day: Cancer/Crab/Robot/Stomach
Today’s Headline of the Day is from a Reuters report by Tan Ee Lyn. The headline manages to implicitly make both the mythic, astrological connection between cancer and crabs and the dietary connection between crabs and the stomach, and to include a trendy mention of robots (which are in fact the focus of the story): […]