Showing posts with label Uncle Sam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Uncle Sam. Show all posts

02 November 2010

Restore Sanity/Fear Circus Clip Two

More 10-30-10 video:


Restoring Sanity Clip Two
0:00:15.37 'Uncle Sam' near Washington Monument
0:01:05.07 'Peace Sign' flag brandisher
0:01:18.10 Lefties can't keep right
0:02:17.57 Porta-Potty lines by Washington Monument
0:02:37.20 Tight costumes are a privilege, not a right, and you have no right
0:04:33.00 Leftists cannot resist walking in front of oncoming cars
0:06:16.00 Bicyclists think they have the right-of-way
0:06:20.00 Leftists cannot keep right
0:09:02.77 Woman into tea bags
0:06:36.00 Bucket drummer


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07 September 2010

Is Zhora Just Around the Corner?

One step closer to "Blade Runner":

Carnegie Mellon’s Incredible Robot Snake Climbs a Real Tree


Carnegie Mellon has taught its robotic snake to climb trees, though one hopes it won’t start offering your spouse apples. “Uncle Sam” (presumably named for its red, white, and blue markings) is a snake robot built from modular pieces. The latest in a line of ‘modsnakes’ from Carnegie Mellon’s Biorobotics Lab, Uncle Sam can move in a variety of different ways including rolling, wiggling, and side-winding. It can also wrap itself around a pole and climb vertically, which comes in handy when scaling a tree. You have to watch this thing in action. There is something incredibly life-like, and eerie, about the way it scales the tree outdoors and then looks around with its camera ‘eye’. Projects like Uncle Sam show how life-mimicking machines could revolutionize robotics in the near future.
I hope there are other efforts underway to make snakes like the one Zhora dances with in Blade Runner.

In the first Suki series, Suki works in robot theory as a consultant to industry.

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