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Festo, the same company that brought us the Air Ray robot last year, has developed yet another graceful robot inspired by a creature of the sea. In fact, they have developed two versions, both based on the common jellyfish: the AquaJelly and the AirJelly. According to Festo, the AquaJelly is “an artificial autonomous jellyfish with [...]

A humanoid robot learning to cook an omelet by whipping eggs, cutting ham and grating cheese. Through the use of a probabilistic model, the robot progressively learns to generalize the skill to various situations.

Robotics are often used in environments which are considered dangerous to humans. Deep sea exploration, nuclear cleanup and volcanism are some of the “higher profile” adverse environments which robots are used. What about other dangerous or hazardous areas?. For example, homeless people live in extremely dangerous environments. Shouldn’t there be automated equipment used by this [...]

Charly, a lonely Banjo player, is stopped at a toll-gate erected in the middle of the desert by an unscrupulous robot…
An animation created by a team of 5 French students from the ESRA.

During her night performance in Orlando, Florida, Beyonce face planted on stage and of course, captured on camera by several fans in attendance.
To her credit, she later joked about the fall, telling the audience that it “hurt so bad” and imploring, “Don’t put it on YouTube.” Of course, those in the audience did the exact [...]