Catching Planes
Thursday, July 19th, 2007My friend Bjarke De Koning is starring in this cool short film by Jonas Drotner Mouritsen, very nice effects and concept.
Object Catching Robot
Monday, August 8th, 2005Pretty cool video clips of a robotic hand grabbing balls shot directly towards it.
shpoffo writes “Engineers at the University of Tokyo in Japan have created a robot that can catch a ball moving faster than 186 miles per hour (300 kph) - more than 270 feet per second. It uses an array of photodetectors to directly control the three finger actuators - which can rotate 180 degrees in 0.1 seconds. It’s only catching softballs at the moment, but operators are optimistic for it to soon catch other objects and grasp moving things. A video with odd sci-fi TV-series (coral cache) accents is available.”
