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WATCH: A Self-Folding Origami Robot That Can Walk, Climb, Dig, Carry, Swim and Dissolve into Nothing (video)

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#when the squad shares one (1) brain cell

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A clock that writes the time

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Unfortunately, I do love you now that you can dance

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35 Mechatro WeGo - Mechatro WeGo - 1/35 - 80’s (Sentinel, Union Creative International Ltd)

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Useless box that doesn’t let people flick its switch

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robot character: oh, who could possibly ever love me? me, an ugly, cold, lifeless machine???

me:

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deep dream

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Adam Savage Rides in a Custom Rickshaw Carriage He Built For His Boston Robotics Spot Robot to Pull Along

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This article has so much going on in it:

- the ingrained racism of the tech industry

- the phrase “robot editor”

- jobs being lost to the above robot editor

-  the fact that the robot editor may choose to run this very story about its own actions on msn.com, and workers have no power to stop it

- “Staff have already had to delete coverage criticising MSN for running the story about Little Mix with the wrong image after the AI software decided stories about the incident would interest MSN readers.”

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A controversial young art duo included in the show breaks new ground with Can’t Help Myself (2016), a gigantic robot equipped with a single arm upon whose end a shovel-like object is attached. It is the brainchild of Beijing-based artists Sun Yuan and Peng Yu. Described by the press release as “guard” of sorts, the robot’s duty is to contain a pool of dark liquid resembling blood as it starts to seep away. The more the substance oozes, the more frantic the robot grows, shoveling the liquid in a move that leaves behind smears and traces of red.

Can’t Help Myself, according the curator, “is itself a tale, a story, that we can say comments on our contemporary culture.”

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Linda Adair - Metal Etched Memories

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_8bitwizard

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From the Wikipedia page about the Fermi Paradox: Given the high scientific probability for alien existence, why can we find no evidence of their existence whatsoever?