DailyDirt: Cool Robot Videos

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More and more robots are learning new tricks every day. In the not-too-distant future, everyone could be playing and working with robots all the time. Here are some interesting videos of robots demonstrating cool motor skills.

• This throwable robot that magnetically sticks to walls is designed as a recon scout to fight pirates at sea. But if a ship’s hull isn’t magnetic, this little remote-controlled bot just drowns in the ocean… [url]
• If you want to make really small paper airplanes, there’s a bot for that. FYI, these remote-controlled robot hands can also do things besides origami — like heart surgery. [url]
• A robot made from Lego can sort different colored Lego bricks at a rate of about 48 per minute. This looks like an early version of a Lego digestive tract — which may eventually be part of a Lego artificial life form…. [url]
• To discover more interesting robot-related content, check out what’s currently floating around the StumbleUpon universe. [url]  

By the way, StumbleUpon can recommend some good Techdirt articles, too.

Filed Under: motor skills, origami, robots
Companies: lego