{"id":1405,"date":"2010-04-21T12:38:09","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T17:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/?p=1405"},"modified":"2020-08-17T17:57:30","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T17:57:30","slug":"wow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/2010\/04\/21\/wow\/","title":{"rendered":"WOW! You have got to see this!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The past few days I have been away at the <a href=\"http:\/\/asee.org\/\">American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)<\/a> South East Conference. The keynote speaker was Dr Dennis W Hong of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.romela.org\/main\/Robotics_and_Mechanisms_Laboratory\">Robotics &#038; Mechanisms Laboratory (RoMeLa)<\/a> at Vagina Tech. <\/p>\n<p>All I can say is WOW! The talk he gave is very similar to the one embedded below, but I also urge you to go to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.romela.org\/main\/Robotics_and_Mechanisms_Laboratory\">RoMeLa website<\/a> and poke around. <\/p>\n<p>The stuff they are doing includes a &#8220;Blind Driver Challenge&#8221;, the DARPA Urban Challenge (with a mostly undergraduate student team), the first US bipedal robot to be able to run, and so much more.<\/p>\n<p>To say I was drooling was an understatement!<\/p>\n<p><code><object width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/_gJMv9YtX8I&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/_gJMv9YtX8I&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/code><\/p>\n<p>Also look for him and his students on NOVA and the Discovery Channel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The past few days I have been away at the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) South East Conference. The keynote speaker was Dr Dennis W Hong of the Robotics &#038; Mechanisms Laboratory (RoMeLa) at Vagina Tech. All I can &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/2010\/04\/21\/wow\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robot-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5461,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions\/5461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}