14 Google Tools you didn’t know about

Posted on July 7, 2013 by dkohn96

http://mashable.com/2013/07/05/google-tools/

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Posted on July 7, 2013 by dkohn96

Robotics lessons in new curriculum http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/10164225/Robotics-lessons-in-new-curriculum.html

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RedShark News – Amazing CGI shot… that’s not CGI!

Posted on July 6, 2013 by dkohn96

http://www.redsharknews.com/production/item/871-amazing-cgi-shot-that-s-not-cgi

When we saw this shot we thought it must be CGI. The thing is, how do you get a high quality camera 500 m above a rocket launch pad, and keep it there throughout the launch. This is the sort of thing you’d normally have to do, painstakingly, with animation and compositing

But this is real. We don’t have any real details except that this is was taken by a Hexacopter at the recent launch of the SpaceX Grashopper spacecraft, which is designed to take off and land at exactly the same spot – something of a remarkable achievement in itself.

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Posted on July 5, 2013 by dkohn96

Robugtix T8 Spider Robot Kit http://news360.com/article/191295525

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Actual movie of flying through Saturn’s rings

Posted on July 4, 2013 by dkohn96

This is the teaser for the IMAX film “In Saturn’s Rings”. The group that is doing the movie took over one million photographs taken by the Cassini Probe and painstakingly pieced them together with NO CGI or effects! If the movie is impressive as the trailer, this will be a don’t miss when it comes to town! Unfortunately it is not due out until 2014.

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Robot Teams Compete to Handle Future Disasters | World | RIA Novosti

Posted on July 4, 2013 by dkohn96

From: RIA NOVOSTI

WASHINGTON, July 3 (RIA Novosti) – They have walked – virtually – over uneven terrain, waded through a soggy pit of mud and maneuvered past cinder blocks designed to stop them in their tracks, all part of a kind of ironman competition for robots that organizers say could someday make the world a safer place for people.

Now, seven robot design teams will craft their software creations into electronic reality for the next phase of a robot building competition known as the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC), developed by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA), which promotes technological research for the US military.
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Watch “RoboCup 2013 Teen Size FINAL: GERMANY / JAPAN” on YouTube

Posted on July 4, 2013 by dkohn96

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdHOGCh5yYs&feature=youtube_gdata_player

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Watch “RoboCup 2013 Adult Size FINAL: TAIWAN / JAPAN” on YouTube

Posted on July 4, 2013 by dkohn96

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqWELifR2P0&feature=youtube_gdata_player

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Watch “RoboCup 2013 Standard Platform FINAL: GERMANY / GERMANY” on YouTube

Posted on July 4, 2013 by dkohn96

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y2Cf9nRqOw&feature=youtube_gdata_player

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Asimo might get fired from his first job

Posted on July 4, 2013 by dkohn96

World’s best-loved robot flunks its first proper job: Asimo flustered by visitors’ gestures and questions while working as museum guide
News – Gadgets & Tech
The Independent
by David McNeill
July 3, 2003

It must have seemed like a good idea at the time: one of Japan’s top science museums has borrowed Honda Motor’s iconic spaceman robot, Asimo, as a guide. But the confused bot is struggling to distinguish between people raising their hands to ask a question and just taking photos.
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