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Spanish YouTuber Ivan Miranda created a robot that can draw out messages in the sand like an old dot matrix printer.

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Self Driving AI Learns in 20 minutes

Two PhD students at Cambridge University have kitted out a Renault Twizzy with a front facing camera and used it to teach reinforment algorithm in 20 minutes to drive along a path without veering off.

AI & ML

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Itty Bitty

Web Dev

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First 3D Colour X-Ray Using CERN Tech

Technology developed at CERN by New Zealand father and son scientists Professors Phil and Anthony butler called the Medipix3 has been used to produce the world's first 3D colour X-Ray. The Medipix is a chip used in the Large Hadron Collider for particle imaging and detection and has been refined by the scientists over the past 20 years. Their company MARS Bioimaging Ltd is now commercialising a 3D scanner using the technology.

Science

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MIT Cheetah 3

MIT have released another video of humans being mean to robots their Cheetah 3 quadruped robot navigating a range of obstacles blind (without image sensors), including running up debris filled stairs (haha, take that Daleks!) and enduring being poked with a big stick while running and minding it's own business!

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Disney Stunt Robots

Disney is working on stunt robots (aka Stuntronics) for its theme parks that can perform aerial acrobotic moves while being launched into the air. Check out the video to see their progress.

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Flying Transformer Drone

Researchers at the University of Tokyo have demonstrated a modular drone that can transform itself while flying to navigate around and through obstacles in its environment.

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Blink-182 Vs Saddam Hussein

Apparently, Mark Hoppus of Blink 182 came up with a plan to triangulate Saddam Hussein's hiding position in Iraq in the early 2000s, by broadcasting an inaudible timecode from trucks driving around Iraq in the hope the codes would make it into one of Saddam's video messages. Somehow, Mark managed to brief a U.S. Navy admiral on the plan, while aboard an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf!

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Spectral Invisibility Cloak

Researchers have demonstrated a new cloaking technique that is effective within broadband light illumination. The technique selectively transfers energy from certain colours of the light wave to other colours. In the example image above, green light energy reflected when light passes through the object is redirected to other parts of the spectrum, effectively cancelling out the colours reflected from an object, making it invisible to the observer.

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Thermal Camouflage

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Researchers at the University of Manchester have created a 3 layer material that can camoflauge thermal heat when an electric current is applied to it. It sounds much better than Arnie's mud version!