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Battle of the robot dance moves
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The Ponginator – A Robotic Combination of King Kong and Ping Pong
As featured on http://www.geeksaresexy.net Ponginator is a robot, and as far as robots go, this one is fairly simple. It plays music, says a few words cribbed from audio files, and shoots ping-pong balls from pressurized air guns. Weve been doing a series on crazy inventors with crazy inventions. Vernon Graner and the creation he…
Official MDS Robot Video – First Test of Expressive Ability
This video shows an initial test of the MDS (Mobile Dexterous Social) Robot designed and built in collaboration with the MIT Media Lab’s Personal Robots Group, UMASS Amherst’s Laboratory for Perceptual Robotics, Xitome Design, and Meka Robotics. It illustrates the robot’s expressive range of movement using scripted animations and pre-recorded speech. For more information see…