Here we evolve the bodies of soft robots made of multiple materials (muscle, bone, & support tissue) to move quickly. Evolution produces a diverse array of fun, wacky, interesting, but ultimately functional soft robots. Enjoy!
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WARNING: This is a non-conventional view of our solar system. If you can't handle that, please try to remain calm. It is OK for people to have different view... 
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Subscribe to MinutePhysics - it's FREE! http://dft.ba/-minutephysics_sub MinutePhysics is on Google+ - http://bit.ly/qzEwc6 And facebook...
Lindsay Pacheco's curator insight,
April 10, 2013 10:16 PM
For such a short amount of time, this video really left my wowed. I love illustrations to go with explanations during the process of teaching something new and foreign, so you can only imagine how crazy I went for this video. I even watched the other videos on their channel for MinutePhysics and even though the topics may seem "boring" or "too hard," I had no trouble keeping up with the pace of the videos and I have such a miniscule knowledge of physics. I'm not really sure how else to explain how much I enjoyed watching this video, it was extremely fun and creative and I wish I could learn everything this way, because it feels like I'm making it happen in a way and we're learning together, if that makes any sense. This was a pretty tricky subject and I loved how at the end he threw in a little bit about parallell universes and my brain just tipped over the edge to explosion. These spurts of information are definitely slightly overwhelming, but it makes you feel like you learned a lot in only two or three minutes, and I recommend anyone to watch them if they're feeling a little existential or just curious about the universe!
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The Solar Dynamics Observatory has completed the third year of its mission to provide scientists not only with stunningly detailed images of our sun, but a wealth of data that will help further our understanding of the sun-Earth system.
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I've been developing ways to use 3d powder printing to make air powered robots that have no hard moving parts. Using procedural modeling I can create rapid iterations, incremental designs, and inexpensive prototypes with a simple set of tools. Find more details at - http://har.ms/category/blog/soft-robots/
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Allan Jones joined the Allen Institute in 2003 to help start up the organization as one of its first employees. Bringing extensive expertise in project leade...
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Visit http://science.nasa.gov/ for breaking science news. The planet Mercury is about to make its best apparition of the year for backyard sky watchers.
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November 11, 2013 10:10 PM
The first part of this video already happened, but the second part is very interesting. CB
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Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is the only moon or planet in our Solar System other than Earth with stable liquid on its surface. The Cassini spacecraft recently…
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A short film about human emotion and the many forms that it takes with examples taken from the movies.
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The colors in our environment make a major impact on how our food tastes! And it doesn't end there. Trace shows how a bit of color can influence our lives.
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Watch a time-lapse video showing the Museum's smallest workers, flesh-eating beetles, preparing the skeletons of a great green macaw, tawny owl and mountain peacock-pheasant for our collections. Chemical preparation of skeletons can cause damage to the bones so a special beetle species, Dermestes haemarrhoidalis, is used to strip off the flesh while leaving the bones and collagen untouched.
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Solar flares are classified by letters B, C, M and X. Similar to the earthquake scale, the power unleashed is measured exponentially. Find out what it can da...
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Political scientist James Fowler makes the connection between smiling profile pictures on Facebook and human evolution.
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Featured on http://www.robots-dreams.com. Some people compete in ROBO-ONE to win and become the champion. Other people join in to improve their skill level.
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February 14, 2013 3:11 PM
Valentinliebers!! En que se parece la cocaína al amor?? Hoy en Ciencia Mística <3
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A small, two-wheeled robot has been driven by a male silkmoth to track down the sex pheromone usually given off by a female.
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That's the promise of robotic refueling on orbit: aging satellites can get a new lease on life from a robotic machine making a service call. Or, at least, the dream of such a system got dramatically closer after NASA's robotic mission success. NASA had an idea, and in a series of extraordinary tests, decided to demonstrate that technologies for servicing satellites in space had evolved to levels of material value. Extending the lifespans of satellites already at work hundreds, even thousands of miles above the Earth, could soon be a reality. In a six-day test at the International Space Station called the Robotic Refueling Mission, they tried out tools and techniques for repairing and refueling satellites without a single astronaut in sight. It's a story with historical roots dating back to the 1980's, and with RRM's twenty-first century on-orbit success, it shines a light on bold imaginings for a space-faring future that suddenly doesn't seem so far ahead. In this documentary we look at the lifecycle of this extraordinary initiative.
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How can you create a universe from nothing? Well if you calculate the total matter of the universe it is positive. If you calculate the total energy of the universe it is negative because of gravity. Gravity has negative energy. When you add the two together what do you get? Zero, so it takes no energy to create a universe. Universes are for free. A universe is a free lunch.
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This eight second video is extracted from a set of test recordings that have been collected within the Auroral Acoustics project (2000-2012). During this time period high-quality audio recordings were made during approximately 100 geomagnetically opportune nights at different locations in Finland. These recordings form a database that is half a terabyte in size. This short clip has been selected from some video recording experiments that were performed during some nights simultaneously and independently of the main activities
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Three days prior to its impact into a mountain on the moon, one of the twin spacecraft (named Ebb) from NASA's GRAIL mission took some photos from orbit. The spacecraft was about 6 miles above the lunar surface when the photos were take.
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"Diego-san was developed to approximate the complexity of a human body, including the use of actuators that have similar dynamics to that of human muscles,"
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Unbelievable these tiny little devils. Whatever we forget on the kitchen table, these guys take it. Now we tried it with a dead gecko we found in garden and an observation camera. Looks like time is money for this little workers and Geico needs a new mascot to tell you how much money you can save with their insurance. With this spirit, we would get rich in no time. This is really crazy.
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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-we-see-color-colm-kelleher There are three types of color receptors in your eye: red, green and blue. But how...
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