Giant Robot, Electronic Skin and more -- Mind Blow #117

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Microbe Building Blocks (0:00)
Study: http://rdcu.be/Evcy
Summary: http://www.anu.edu.au/news/all-news/buckingham-palace-built-with-mineralised-microbes-from-the-jurassic

Smell Accuracy (0:13)
Study: http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(17)31616-0
Summary: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2158891-some-people-identify-smells-as-easily-as-if-they-were-colours/

Planes Wake Surfing (0:39)
Research paper: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20170005247.pdf
Video: https://youtu.be/bKWMXTo7Td0

Babbling Babies (1:20)
Study: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/desc.12641/full
Summary: http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2018/01/researchers-learn-social-function-babies-babbling
BABY Lab: http://babylab.cornell.edu/

Dolphin Self-Awareness (1:52)
Journal article: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0189813


Electronic VR Skin (2:21)
Research paper: https://www.hzdr.de/db/Cms?pNid=3595
Videos: http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/suppl/2018/01/12/4.1.eaao2623.DC1

ANSCO Slide Projector Commercial (2:46)
Video: https://youtu.be/inxuN18t8yY, via Vintage Fanatic

Pyramid-Scanning Robots (3:41)
ScanPyramids: http://www.scanpyramids.org/
HIP Institute: http://www.hip.institute/#videos
Video: https://vimeo.com/243085434

Dinosaur Tail Weapons (4:33)
Research paper: http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/285/1871/20172299
Smaug image: Cymothoa exigua, Creative Commons 3.0

Coyote III: Search and Rescue Robot (5:08)
Fact sheet: https://robotik.dfki-bremen.de/uploads/tx_dfkiprojects/Systemblatt_CoyoteIII_en_01.pdf
Video: https://youtu.be/c8lJg9pOcVc

Rooster Hearing Protection (5:39)
Study: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0944200617301976

Pianos: Musicians’ Brains (6:09)
Summary: http://www.cbs.mpg.de/brains-of-jazz-and-classical-pianists-work-differently
Study: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811917310820?via%3Dihub

ARMAR-6/SecondHands: Robot Helper (6:40)
SecondHands: https://secondhands.eu/
Videos: https://youtu.be/b9ZI6NX7fCk
https://youtu.be/cSRu14MR5mE
https://youtu.be/7BjHhV-BkwE

Guardian GT: Force-Multiplying Robot (8:00)
Sarcos Robotics: https://www.sarcos.com/
Video: https://youtu.be/we18ahVF07E

Homes of the Future, via 16mm Educational Films (8:25)
Video: https://youtu.be/vEtIfoS-toU?t=12m10s


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Written by Matthew Tabor
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Edited by Jack Merline

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