This video isn't thaaaat new, but I came across it today while looking for videos relevant to this article that has to do with Phoenix lander's mission to land on Mars. It's a simulation that was created last year, but I hadn't seen it before and I fell in love with it instantly. Good music for the purpose too by the way. And if you don't understand Spanish don't worry, just wait for the actual video to start.
Earlier I had posted a few lines in regards to ASIMO's conduction of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra performing "Impossible Dream". Today I received an email from a good friend of mine notifying me that the video for the performance has just been released and it's currently available on blip.tv. So, here it is, and it's profoundly cute. =D Enjoy!
Well apparently his majesty the royal cuteness Honda's ASIMO robot is planning on mesmerizing the audience by conducting the Detroit Symphony Orchestra performing "Impossible Dream". This is going to be the opening for cellist Yo-Yo Ma's performance. Read the whole story here. Cool ha? =) I have been tracking the improvements and basically the process of "growing up" of this little creature from the start, as he's pretty much the "Dream Come True" of Robotics enthusiasts such as myself. And I even had him as the topic for the papers for a couple of my engineering design related courses. Now I wonder if the videos for this performance are going to show up on YouTube, cause I have to say, I so badly want to see this! =D
Also, look what I just dugg up! The article just amazes me, check it out! :)
"It's a bird. It's a plane. Or it might turn out to be a little like both. Researchers are aiming to find ways to enable aircraft to change shape during flight to improve performance or efficiency. The University of Dayton project is funded by a $580,000 defense contract to further the development of "morphing" aircraft..."
The IEEE website has a new design. I don't know how long it's been there, less than a week probably, but I noticed it last night. The significance of this? Well....just that I really "disliked" the old one. It was quite disorganized, the design of each part of the website sang a different song and certain parts of it were quite ugly! Altogether I thought that for an organization of such size they could probably do better, and since this thought kept coming to my mind every time I visited that site, it was nice to see they actually did something about it. The new design is nice and well organized, so....good job to whoever took care of it! Now was that "significance" enough? Or is it that there's about 15 minutes left to my next class and I'm just incredibly bored?? And yes, I'm posting this from ENG406, on the 4th floor of Ryerson Engineering Building. :P
OH....MY...GOODNESS....Just have a look @ this! The cutest little Robot ever! Pretty natural moves too. Very impressive indeed! "We've all been waiting to finally own a True Walking Humanoid Robot, Kyosho of Japan will release MANOI, the "Ready-Made" Robot (that's right; no assembly required) for about $1600. Wait til you see him Stand on One Leg and Do the "Wing Wave".....you'll want one too!!" And yeah, I DO want one too! :P read more | digg story
Look what I just found on digg [again!] If u're an engineer, studying engineering [like me! :S], are interested in engineering, don't like engineering and don't want to have anything to do with engineers, read this....it's pretty kool! "The Engineer of 2020 Project byt the National Academy of Engineering centers on an effort to envision the future and to use that knowledge to attempt to predict the roles that engineers will play in the future. Very interesting read." read more | digg story
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