4th String Jaegers Pokes Fun at Pacific Rim’s Robot Names: Kaijokes

Pacific Rim director Guillermo del Toro said that he wanted the robots to be unique. Apparently that also applies to their names. How else do you explain monikers like Gipsy Danger and Striker Eureka? And now we have 4th String Jaegers:

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4th String Jaegers is a single purpose blog. Its contributors use the Jaeger Designer web app that Warner Bros. made to promote the movie to create hilarious posters featuring their own ideas for Jaeger names. Some of them bring countries to the mix to make puns, while others go off on another tangent and replace the names with funny captions instead. Sadly some of them use offensive language, so the blog isn’t safe for kids.

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4th String Jaegers accepts contributions from anyone, and the Jaeger Designer is still online. Make your own 4th String Jaeger and cancel the apocalypse! Or just delay its flight! There is a Jaeger named Caramel Fluffybutt, your argument is invalid!

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Watch the Gymnast Bot Land a Quadruple Backflip

We’ve seen this bot before. Just this past March, we witnessed it stick a near impossible landing. And now it’s stuck a quadruple backflip, which by all accounts appears to be it sixteenth feat of heroism. What can’t this little guy do? Nothing.

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e-David Robot Does Art

I am not quite sure about you, but when you have a robot that does what we call as “art”, does it really qualify that way? Art needs to have a purpose and a meaning, it does not just exist […]

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Why Can’t Luggage For Adults Be As Wonderful As This Robo-Bag?

Why Can't Luggage For Adults Be As Wonderful As This Robo-Bag?

There’s an unwritten rule that luggage for adults has to have a fairly mundane and boring design. But when you’re waiting at the luggage carousel and realize that everyone else had the same idea to buy a red suitcase to stand out, you realize there has to be a better way. And there is, it’s just too bad the $40 Luggo here is only big enough to store a child’s wardrobe.

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ERO Robot Could Tear Down and Recycle Buildings

Imagine if we had robots that could not only tear a building down, but also recycle it. Large building projects would go much faster and they would likely be cheaper and safer too. This new concept in robotics may just improve the efficiency of building demolition and recycling. It comes from Swedish student designer Omer Haciomeroglu who says that ERO is a smart recycling robot like Wall-E.

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He states that ERO would “efficiently disassemble concrete structures without any waste, dust or separation and enable reclaimed building materials to be reused for new prefabricated concrete buildings.” In other words it could be a dream come true for the construction sector.

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It uses high-powered water jets to crack the concrete. The cement and water is then sucked up and separated. The water is recycled back into the system, while clean aggregate is packed and sent to concrete precast stations for reuse. The rebar can then be cleaned and cut on the spot for reuse as well.

A fleet of ERO robots working together would be able to scan the area and plan their demolition/recycling. The robots could “literally erase a building”. It is a great idea, and I hope it sees action one day.

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e-David Painting Robot: Etsy Automated

Robots are slowly but surely taking all of our jobs. Even jobs that we thought were safe – like being an artist. e-David is a robotic painter developed by the University of Konstanz in Germany. It takes photographs, then uses its software to develop a unique set of brush strokes to make a one-of-a-kind painting of the subject. There’s another job gone.

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It creates using five different brushes and a palette of 24 paint colors. It can also change its painting style on the fly, making adjustments to future brush strokes by observing the results of those it has already made. e-David even signs its work with a reverse-written signature, which is a nice artistic touch.

The team built the robot painter to learn more about the techniques human artists use. They want to boil painting techniques down to their basics by creating algorithms that can mimic them.

Sure, e-David paints a great painting, but can it cut it’s own ear off like Van Gogh? Nope. No passion. No crazy. No heart. How is that art again?

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DARPA’s Atlas Robot Is Here To Save The Day

DARPA’s Atlas humanoid robot is a disaster response machine.

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DARPA’s Atlas robot will be taught to save you if the sky falls (video)

DARPA's Atlas robot doesn't care if the sky falls, will be taught to save you if it does

DARPA and Boston Dynamics seem bent on engineering the robot revolution, and it’s while wearing a suspicious smile that they introduce us to Atlas, their latest humanoid creation. Inorganically evolved from Petman and an intermediate prototype, Atlas will compete in DARPA’s Robotics Challenge (DRC) Trials in December, where it will be challenged with “tasks similar to what might be required in a disaster response scenario.” The seven teams that made it through the Virtual Robotics Challenge stage, held in a simulated environment, will massage their code into the real 6′ 2″ robot, which sports a host of sensors and 28 “hydraulically actuated joints.” Also competing for a spot in the 2014 DRC finals are six “Track A” teams, including a couple of crews from NASA, which’ve built their own monstrous spawn. Head past the break for Atlas’ video debut, as well as an introduction to the Track A teams and their contributions to Judgement Day.

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ATLAS: Probably the Most Advanced Humanoid Yet, Definitely Terrifying

ATLAS: Probably the Most Advanced Humanoid Yet, Definitely Terrifying

As impressed by we all were by Petman, DARPA and Boston Dynamics’ remarkably agile and nimble humanoid, it’s about to get upstaged by the company’s latest and greatest robot creation: ATLAS. Designed to compete in DARPA’s upcoming Robotics Challenge, we actually already got a glimpse of ATLAS’ impressive skills back when it was just a prototype, but as it nears completion we’re now seeing just how damn impressive it really is.

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Honda Looks To ASIMO As Inspiration For Disaster Response Robot

Honda wants to develop a disaster response robot based on their ASIMO.

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