Robots are taking over.

Those first 10 seconds or so are pretty boring huh? Yeah, until you realize that thing is not human and that is is a robot. The android was made by Geminoid, a research lab located at Aalbord University in Denmark. Their website says that it is the first of its kind outside of Japan.

Geminoid's first android was built in 2005. Imagine what they are whipping up in that lab right now. Six years is a long time. Apparently six years from now, we're going to have Wooly Mammoths roaming the earth again.

Between this robot and the ping pong juggling ones I posted two weeks ago, I think it is time we bring back one of my childhood TV shows, Robot Wars.  Now that's a good idea.

Someone is bound to win the nobel peace prize sometime soon for some ridiculous robot invention. This android is incredibly impressive. The lab is still working to expand its research and improve on the its next project. They released another android in spring of 2010. At this rate, in the near future no one will have jobs and we will all bow to them.

The Juggling Robot Race

There must be an underground race going on to see who can come up with the best ball juggling robot. The competition is stiff as today I present to you two videos of robots that have impressive juggling talents. I can't say for sure which on is better. At first glance I want to say the airborne robot, but the fact that the stationary one can juggle two balls at once, settles it at a tie in my mind. See for yourself. Which is the more impressive juggler?



In the red corner we have the Quadrotor ball juggler. Here you can see something that looks like it belongs in the movie Wall-E.  Every day we are getting one step closer to a robot apocalypse. This machine can be credited to Mark Muller and Sergei Lupashin. This is not the only machine they work on as you can see at their website.



In the blue corner a robot worked on by Paul Kulchenko and Emo Todorov out of the Movement Control Lab at University of Washington. This machine successfully juggles one ball at a lower distance than the video shown above, but.... skip to 50 seconds in to see its real power. The power to juggle two balls at once.

Both of these machine run on sensors that people way smarter than me have helped build. Win or lose they are both pretty impressive, especially if you were in a robot ping pong ball juggling contest. So I ask again, which is more impressive?