science in popular culture
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Watching a Robot Slip and Fall Is Way More Entertaining Than the Milk Crate Challenge
If you wake up every morning stressed about whether or not this is the day robots will decide to overthrow humanity, Boston Dynamics has shared a video that should provide some peace of mind: a highlight reel of its multi-million dollar Atlas robot hilariously failing and falling at parkour, which, it turns out, happens far more…
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Warehouse Robots That Deliberately Crash to Unload Packages Explains What Happened to My Fancy Vase
Modern warehouses are a hive of frenetic activity as robots and humans move boxes around as quickly as possible. To shave a few precious seconds off a delivery, researchers in Germany have developed a high-speed robotic drone that unloads packages by deliberately crashing into a platform and letting inertia take care of the rest.
