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Big Dog - Amazing Robot

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

Watched this tonight and it blew me away. I can’t believe I haven’t seen it before. BigDog is a quadruped robot created in 2005 by a firm called Boston Dynamics and JPL and funded, of course, by DARPA. Bloody amazing balance this thing has. Mind bending the computations required to get this to work under [...]

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Toyota Mobiro plays violin

Sunday, December 9th, 2007

I don’t believe this Mobiro is really playing the violin. It’s fingers do seem to be moving but can you hear the vibrato?? I don’t see the fingers making that happen. I suspect Mobiro was following the Spice Girls’ lead and just miming. Still - pretty impressive. Good to see Toyota stepping up to Honda’s [...]

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