Dennis Hong: My 7 species of robot
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http://www.ted.com At TEDxNASA, Dennis Hong introduces seven award-winnning, all-terrain robots -- like the humanoid, soccer-playing DARwIn and the cliff-gripping CLIMBeR -- all built by his team at RoMeLa, Virginia Tech. Watch to the end to hear the five creative secrets to his lab's incredible technical success.
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seeing shapes in his head? is this guy like a rainman?
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Imagine how much more advanced they could've been making those robots if they diverted their acronyms budget into R&D!!!! xD
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in 15 years, Dennis Hong is going to be known as Steve Jobs was to these days.
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It's hard for me to feel comfortable having innovations like this in a world where people haven't learned to reconcile their differences yet.
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A TED talk deserving a standing ovation if I ever saw one. What a retarded audience
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23 people lost their jobs to these robots
7 months ago 5
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in japan, you can buy one of these at toysrus
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dead audience !!
7 months ago 4
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A lot of these robots were very impressive with new and unique takes on mobility. Why wasn't the audience applauding and acknowledging? I give it a thumbs up.
Celdoir 1 year ago 92
sweet
wickedinsight 1 year ago 8