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Faces and spaceships in Space
NASA wants to put a picture of you on one of the two remaining space shuttle missions and launch it into orbit. Launch your face into space and become a part of history. Here’s my receipt.
Continuing the space theme, some people go to the ocean and see ships. Bernard Gigounon goes to the ocean and sees hidden starships everywhere. The video is quite slow paced, but check out especially the night shots towards the end of the video.
High-speed robot hand
Ishikawa Komuro Lab’s high-speed robot hand performing impressive acts of dexterity and skillful manipulation. This video presentation at ICRA 2009 (which took place in May in Kobe, Japan) has an informative narration and demonstrates dribbling a ping-pong ball, spinning a pen, throwing a ball, tying knots, grasping a grain of rice with tweezers, and tossing / re-grasping a cellphone.
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