Comments on: The Amorphous Menace Creeps Forward

By: Mandeep

Mandeep — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 13:03:08 +0000

Quite cool — robots continue to advance in locomotive abilities. Of course, the key on one like this is when they’ll be able to unattach the air hoses, power, computer cables etc. that i assume all go through the connection. Tiny invertebrates can do all this already — with of course, a several billion year headstart, via evolution. But when will humans fully catch up to even them..?! Could be a while, yet. But i still take nothing away from what these researchers have achieved so far – very cool.

By: David McMillan

David McMillan — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 23:19:47 +0000

I concur with the earlier comment about squid! It looks incredibly like a cephalopod – at least the end result of one when its ready for the plate!
Absolutely incredible. Looking at the video it almost appears like it is thinking or deliberating in its movements or struggle to get to its destination.

By: Rolf

Rolf — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:14:17 +0000

My wife can do that.

By: cantordust

cantordust — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:43:15 +0000

Clever! but I so want to see what that wire is connected to..what a tease!

By: sievemaria

sievemaria — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 01:30:36 +0000

nice moves

By: Gizelle Janine

Gizelle Janine — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:02:04 +0000

Harvard is weird, I’ll say that. Robot guards? Even weirder.

By: Chris Winter

Chris Winter — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:14:30 +0000

About those South Korean prison guard robots: I doubt they’ll last two weeks — unless the inmates they’ll be guarding are highly untypical.

Two things right off the bat: Fragile radio antenna, and nothing to protect the camera lenses. Just pull a sock over the lenses and they’re useless.

By: Low Math, Meekly Interacting

Low Math, Meekly Interacting — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:46:26 +0000

What’s not to love about squid?

By: Trevor

Trevor — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:14:19 +0000

A shape with… / A gaze blank and pitiless as the Sun / Is moving its slow thighs… / And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, / Slouches… to be born?

By: looks like

looks like — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 23:52:36 +0000

looks like a dildo but a flat one that can move xD

By: World’s Strangest | The Amorphous Creeping Menace

World’s Strangest | The Amorphous Creeping Menace — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 23:16:43 +0000

[...] It may look like a simple piece of plastic, but this robot has the moves! In fact, that’s what it is for -to test out news ways for a robot to move. Developed by researchers at Harvard University, this soft robot was inspired by the movements of squid and worms. Link -via Cosmic Variance [...]

By: Naked Bunny with a Whip

Naked Bunny with a Whip — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:21:30 +0000

I’d scream, if I had a mouth.

By: bigjohn756

bigjohn756 — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:04:39 +0000

When I first saw it I thought — squid. It looks like it is connected by air hoses only
making me wonder what kind of feedback is available for learning?

By: Justin Loe

Justin Loe — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 20:53:51 +0000

Another development in robotics in South Korea: robots as prison guards:
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-11/robotic-guards-will-soon-patrol-south-korean-prison

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 19:39:02 +0000

http://www.ted.com/talks/a_robot_that_flies_like_a_bird.html