Want your very own robot to learn to do your job? Sylvain Calinon and Aude Billard from the Autonomous Systems Lab, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne have made great strides to make that dream happen. Additional information. Read a paper on their research. (PDF) “This video shows how a humanoid robot can learn incrementally new skills by interacting with a human instructor. By using active teaching methods that
When it comes to USB devices I think missile launchers have to be one of the best additions to the group! Have a look at these great missile hacks. Did your favorite hack not make the list? Leave a comment to let us know. “The following video illustrates how a to translate values from your PC Joystick to control a USB Missile Launcher and fire at objects that you
Our friend Alessandro Valli from Natural Interaction has been working on some new creations. The video above demonstrates the SensitiveAdv device which is a hand that is projected onto the floor and reacts in real time to a foot stepping on it. The hand then proceeds to move away from the foot and starts to write on the floor. Since the hand looks very real the effect is quite
You read the title right, you can make thermal grease using diamonds. Have a look at this Diamond Thermal Grease article that demonstrates how to do it. I would have thought the diamonds would have been very expensive but apparently you can buy 25 Carats of diamond dust for about $30.00 on Ebay. Of course if money is no object you can make your own diamond dust. Destroying a diamond
The RoBoat team from Austria won the 2007 Microtransat. The France IBoat was a strong contender but had some technical difficulties. “The Microtransat is a transatlantic race of fully autonomous sailing boats. The race aims to stimulate the development of autonomous sailing boats through friendly competition. The Transatlantic race is currently planned for late 2008 with several smaller races taking place before then.”
Max Cornelisse from the Netherlands has done some incredible hacks. He is a 24 year old science grad who likes to poke fun at how insecure some systems are. I guess they could be staged but most of them look very real. Let me know what you think… Anyone able to translate what is going on in the train video? Thanks to Rutger B. for sending in this translation.
James Brown, Shawn Ironmonger, Michael Moninski and Dan Moore from Purdue University put together quite the gambling machine. They made a Smart RFID Poker Table that could keep track of where chips where placed on the table. After watching a few of the gambling cheat shows on TV where people use misdirection and slight of hand to increase their bets when it is in their favor would be shot down
