This video shows the manipulator dribbling a ping-pong ball, spinning a pen, throwing a ball, tying knots, grasping a grain of rice with tweezers, and tossing / re-grasping a cellphone! Based on the video, the hand uses high-speed actuators with harmonic drive gears. The hand can close in 1/10th of a second! Personally, I find […]
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High Speed Robot Hand
Posted in robotics, Science
Tagged anthropomorphic, grabbing, high speed, manipulator, robotics, robots, throwing, tossing
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Save Darfur
by Danielle Brouse The Darfur region is a drought-prone area of western Sudan. By area, Darfur is roughly the size of Texas and is divided into three states that had a collective population of approximately 6 million people before the crisis in Darfur began in 2003. The Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) and Justice and Equality […]
Posted in children, Education, Government, Politics, War And Peace
Tagged Africa, aid, children, civil war, Darfur, killing children, malitia, Sudan, war
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2011: The Year Before Heaven
The music project known as The End released a new album 2011: Year Before Heaven.
Revalation Of The Magi
Have you been seeing the articles about the Wisemen translation into English? Good stuff… descendants of Adam’s third son travel back from China following the star. “And when it concentrated itself, it appeared to us in the bodily form of a small and humble human, and he said to us: ‘Peace to you, sons of […]
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen 2010 .MP3 The Dave Version David wrote us and said: Your interpretation of the meaning of “God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman” is incorrect. Merry in the old english of this carol did not mean “Happy” it meant “Mighty” or “Powerful” (Think Robin Hoods Merry Men – They weren’t happy because […]