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| Dean Kamen and the Robotic Arm - 176 sec American inventor and entrepreneur Dean Kamen, known best for the Segway Human Transporter, spoke today at Oceanit, a high-tech firm based in Honolulu. As part of his presentation, he talked about a revolutionary robotic arm he is developing in cooperation with the military.
This offered another, and slightly clearer, look at the brief video clips that debuted at TED in March and took the geek press by storm. Tags:kamen arm robotic robotics bionic cyborg  |
| Robotic Liberation by PWP (VIC-20) - 202 sec Are machines going to take over the world? A "music video" completely performed by an unexpanded Commodore VIC-20 and a 1541 disk drive. Note that there are only 5120 bytes and 1024 nybbles of RAM available, and the total disk size of the demo is a mere 16 KB. No one had ever pushed VIC-20 programming this far before the new millennium.
And don't forget: even the original Terminator was based on the 6502 microprocessor!
More: http://www.pelulamu.net/viznut/demos/rli/ Tags:commodore vic 20 vic-20 demoscene 8bit retro realtime hacking pwp robots  |
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| Robotic Fly - 173 sec Small, winged insects have a reputation for accidentally buzzing into closed windows or swooping into your eye during a bike ride. But the research of Robert Wood, assistant professor of engineering and applied sciences, may cause you to look twice at your next fly... Tags: robotic fly robots harvard askstudent  |