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Robot Learns Acrobatics from Cockroach

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UC Berkeley researchers discovered that cockroaches and geckos can flip themselves under a ledge. They reproduced the behavior using a robot. Videos part of the paper “Rapid Inversion: Running Animals and Robots Swing like a Pendulum under Ledges,” PLoS One, Jun 6, 2012

A TurtleBot Easter

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Unknown to the human employees at Clearpath, our robots decided it was high time they partook in the fun of Easter celebrations. Imagine our surprise when we arrived at work to find all available surfaces covered in eggs and an Easter egg hunt in full swing. In a characteristically cheeky move, one of our more personable TurtleBots took it upon itself to play Easter Bunny and hide eggs around the office for the other TurtleBots to find. The TurtleBots were thrilled and spent all morning locating and collecting eggs and only slightly disrupted the productivity of the human employees in their search. When one employee cautiously asked to join the egg hunt, the Easter Bunny TurtleBot made threatening gestures with its robotic arm and responded “bee-boop, bee, bip!” Clearly this event was meant for artificial intelligence only.
After an emergency company-wide meeting, the human employees have agreed to keep a closer eye on our mischievous friends. This is the second time they have monopolized the office (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9yzc8kz9VU) and we have the sneaking suspicion they are planning more adventures in the future.
TECHNICAL INFO:
Each TurtleBot runs the open-source Robot Operating System (http://www.ros.org) and uses a Microsoft Kinect as its only sensor.
All of the source code can be freely downloaded from the clearpath_turtlebot stack
(http://www.ros.org/wiki/clearpath_turtlebot).
Check out http://www.clearpathrobotics.com/turtlebot or http://www.turtlebot.com if you’d like to learn more about TurtleBot! To buy a TurtleBot visit http://store.clearpathrobotics.com

Humans.txt, a Robots.txt for humans

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A quote from the website:

What is it?

An initiative to know the creators of the website.

A TXT file that contains the information about the different people who have contributed to the web building.

 

A sample of a humans.txt file with the fields that you can use:

/* TEAM */
 Chef:Juanjo Bernabeu
 Contact: hello [at] humanstxt.org
 Twitter: @cssbarcelona
 From:Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

 CSS3 and HTML5 Girl: Maria Macias
 Twitter: @lafabricaverde
 From:Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

 One eyed illustrator: Carlos Mañas
 Twitter: @oneeyedman
 From:Madrid, Spain

 Standard Man: Abel Cabans
 Twitter: @abelcabans
 From:Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

 Creative mind: Abel Sutilo
 Twitter: @abelsutilo
 From:Sevilla, Andalucia, Spain

 CA Translator: Eva AC
 Twitter: @evaac
 From:Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

 EN Translator: Jose Flores
 From:Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

 Copy review: Marta Armanda
 Twitter: @martuishere
 From: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

/* SITE */
 Last update:2011/01/23
 Language:English
 Doctype:HTML5 with CSS3
 Tools:PHP
 IDE:Aptana Studio 3 and Notepad++

Robots.txt, Humans.txt, …

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