The Best Robots of 2008

Lots of video; these are mostly consumer robots and research projects, i.e., no industial robots.

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Cubism for wartime
The Rhode Island School of Design has a set of beautiful designs for dazzle ship camouflage. Dazzle Camouflage was a way to confuse submarine operators as to the heading and speed of warships, so that they could not effectively fire torpedoes to sink them. Certainly a lot more colorful than today's camo! (previously) […]
Hoppiness
Compare and Contrast: Dougal Wilson's video for Goldfrapp's "Happiness" vs. Norman McLaren's "Neighbours." (previously) Despite the several previous posts that reference McLaren, I think the connections (and divergences) between what may be the greatest work of pixilation of all time* and Wilson's video for "Happ […]
Colonel John Patrick "Jack" Murtha, Jr. (D) June 17, 1932 – February 8, 2010
Earlier today, the first Viet Nam veteran ever elected to congress, died. John Murtha (as of this past Saturday, Pennsylvania's longest serving congressman) was the 19 term representative of Pennsylvania's 12th district, most notably the home of Johnstown, and which for most of his service included Shanksville. He was a hawkish, conservative Democ […]