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anybots has designed the this awesome dynamically balancing walking humanoid robot. The video is spectacular! I love the way the other robot is poking it to try to make it fall down.
- Motion Planning for Humaniod Robots
- BDI - Big Dog
- Robots playing soccer video
- RobotSavvy website
- Space Robot Bonanza! < this is hilarious!!
Popsci has an article about growing your own home, as does Physorg.
I have been talking about this for years. I always liked the idea of growing it from one seed or spore, similar to the way that a mushroom sprouts overnight from a spore to the top heavy structure that it is.
In my vision I see it growing very quickly and then hardening or petrifying to a usable structure.
You would have to feed it some sort of material perhaps some type of organic waste. (maybe soylent green)
Their process is probably closer to happening then my crazy idea. I think it would be a combination of bio-engineering and nanotech.
This is a different type of growing but in the same vein.
Contour Crafting will print one for you layer by layer.
squidoo post on Arborsculpture
Growing Home
The Chair that grew
Plantware
The man that grew his own chairs
Treedome
DNA Rainbow took the genetic code from huge data files and assigned a color to every one of the four bases. Rendering human genetic code in color. Interesting and strange patterns emerge. I was kind of hoping to get a 3d image by crossing my eyes like those 3d noise images (SIRDS) I used to create with KPT 3D Stereo Noise.
But alas, it was not to be.
Single Image Random Dot Stereograms software:
SIRDS
Techmind owns the algorithm used to make these.
Fast Company has a new video of that cool multi touch display developed by Jeff Han / Perceptive Pixel
I can't wait to get my hands on one. I got a chance to play with one for a few minutes at GEOINT and it was awesome!
The full article is here.
This suit was developed by Matsushita to help partial paralysis patients rehabilitate the rest of their bodies.
it weighs only 4 lbs and will only put you out a mere 17,000 dollars.
I keep saying that robotics are going to be the next big DIY hobby like: Metafilter has a great post on a bunch of robot stuff here are some highlights.
Video of Korea's Android woman.
LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT!
Press Release
Video of LAYERED-X
It's only the beginning people.
Plasma Pong is an awesome reworking of Pong, with real time fluid dynamics!
You can inject plasma fluid into the game environment, create a vacuum from your paddle, and plast shockwaves in the play area.
It is a free download.
This game freakin' rocks!
I recommend you download it now.
