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Amazing robot that balances on a ball.
Posted on November 29, 2011 with 13 notes ()
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“Plenty of robots can fly — but none can fly like a real bird. That is, until Markus Fischer and his team at Festo built SmartBird, a large, lightweight robot, modeled on a seagull, that flies by flapping its wings. A soaring demo fresh from TEDGlobal 2011.”
Also, check out a couple of more videos and an interview with the project manager for Festo SmartBird projecton on GrabCAD.
Posted on July 28, 2011 with 4 notes ()
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Another awesome hovering invention, this time courtesy of, who else, but the Japanese Ministry of Self Defense. (Japan has a ministry of self-defense?)
Sure it’s all cool and everything. That is, until the artificial intelligence. Then the self-awareness. and the surveillance, then the swarming and the shooting and the dying…
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