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Like A Cat, New Robot Lands On Its Feet
eckenheimer writes "Students at the Physics Department at Drury University have developed a robot that uses motions and contortions of its body
to orient itself in zero gravity. According to the project site, 'If you've ever seen a cat land on its feet after falling while upside down then you've seen the idea behind our project.' The effort is a proposal for the NASA Reduced Gravity Student Flight Opportunities Program."
thats a pretty fun first post. GJ!
Come on, people! "Untitled Document"? Way to impress. (Oh, and KISS is a guidline, not dogma--the unformatted-long-page-of-stuff design was old in '95.)
Media that can be recorded and distributed can be recorded and distributed.
-kfg
When do they come out with a robot emulating some really interesting and usefull real-life function, like being in heat?
"We are all geniuses when we dream"
- E.M. Cioran
But does it have the strength of 5 gorillas?
Your cat's two and a half to three feet tall...wow...
It must be Thursday. I could never get the hang of Thursdays.
It's been 6 days and this shits still compiling!
On a 2.4ghz celeron with 512megs of ram. In a distcc environment shared with two 3.06ghz P4s, 4 1ghz P3s and a couple more celerons, no less!
Holee shit! I typed emerge openoffice last night around 10, the mofo is STILL compiling.
It takes at least a week to build a usable gentoo desktop. What a fucking joke! You people seriously must have no lives, nothing to accomplish all day. Anyone who types "emerge -u world" has nothing constructive to do with his time.
I love obscure sigs that go right over the heads of 95% of the people who read them ;) I still need to finish the rest of the series - I've only watched through the Black Rose saga.
I've actually been pondering on how to produce such rings at home... my ideas thusfar are revolving around this.
Very well; let this abomination unto the Lord begin!