Archive for April, 2002

Computerized Android Robot Head

Thursday, April 25th, 2002

How to Build a Computerized Android Robot Head for $600.00.

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Pirate Riddles for Sophisticates

Wednesday, April 24th, 2002

McSweeney’s offers Pirate Riddles for Sophisticates.

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IHTFP Hack Gallery: Great Droid

Tuesday, April 23rd, 2002

IHTFP Hack Gallery: Great Droid | On the first day of spring finals and two days before the release of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, students arrived on campus to find the Great Dome transformed into a likeness of R2-D2, the famous droid from the Star Wars saga.

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Monkeys destroy library

Monday, April 15th, 2002

Monkeys destroy library, stall classes in girls’ college | Scores of monkeys have swamped a girls’ college in the hill resort of Darjeeling in eastern India, destroying thousands of books, stalling classes, clawing and slapping the students.

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‘Flesh and Machines’

Monday, April 15th, 2002

‘Flesh and Machines’: The Future of Robotics | …Rodney A. Brooks, director of the M.I.T. Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, tells me that in 20 more years we will have robots with feelings and consciousness…

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