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Robotic Wellington Boot Thrower

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the too-much-time-on-feet dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A long established "sport" in the UK is that of welly wanging or seeing how far you can throw a wellington boot. Scientists at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth have built a robotic arm to perform this task, using an engine from a concrete mixer, and a gearbox from a Citroen along with several computers."

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  1. Re:got some free time? by Patrik_AKA_RedX · · Score: 2, Insightful

    News of the day: Cure for cancer found after 10 years of focused research. Next: All about the huge comet heading to earth and how earths demise could have been prevented by space research. With special guest Macadamia_Harold explaining why spreading scientific research was seen as a bad thing in 2006.

  2. Re:got some free time? by NetRAVEN5000 · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Because all scientists are chemists and study medicine? I think not. I doubt that these scientists would be working on this if they were chemists.

    I don't know about you, but I'd rather have a physics major working on something related to his major than trying to find a cure for cancer when he probably knows very little about chemistry or the human body.

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