Robotic cucumber hand freaks out party goers

We've got all ideas that whipping up an edible Wii (and a few controllers while you're at it) would make for a fantastic (albeit overtly geeky) shindig, but there's just something satisfying about a robotic cucumber hand that freaks out attendees that visit the snack table a tad too frequently. The creature, which was reportedly, um, prepared for an event hosted by a CMU computer scientist, primarily consisted of a number of edible parts, a servo, control arm, and a CMU Canary sensing / control platform. Truth be told, however, pictures can only explain so much, so feel free to click on through for a glimpse at this thing in action (and the entire recipe, too).

[Via CNET]

[Matt @ Aug 16th 2007 3:58AM]

At first glance I thought that was the other kind of green plant.

[Mike Nicholson @ Aug 16th 2007 5:11AM]

Looks weird, i wonder what's the usability of such techniques.

[Morgan Percy @ Aug 16th 2007 6:14AM]

-2 points for not hiding the servo and rubber bands but neat idea none the less.

[wilkmd @ Aug 16th 2007 6:19AM]

Developers developers developers developers.
Developers developers developers developers.
Developers developers developers developers.
Developers developers developers developers.
Developers developers developers developers.
(repeat)

[MikeG @ Aug 16th 2007 8:47AM]

Such cool parties

[Tyler @ Aug 16th 2007 9:48AM]

holy crap salad fingers is back ahhh!!!

[Tom @ Aug 16th 2007 11:25AM]

NERD ALERT!

[Tom @ Aug 16th 2007 11:26AM]

/austin powers voice

[NovaLand @ Aug 16th 2007 12:12PM]

This was as interesting as the five finger filet machine just the other day...

[ponchato @ Aug 17th 2007 12:36AM]

This, my friends, is why it's good to have a girlfriend.

[Mark 2000 @ Aug 18th 2007 10:56PM]

Obviously they do have girlfriends. Check out the indian girl in red. humma humma

[PK @ Aug 17th 2007 1:18AM]

Wow - that's 5 minutes of my life I'll never get back again.

The worst thing was when my wife in the next room over overheard the music and was curious as to what I was watching online - though it was porn. And what did I answer? "No, honey - just a bunch of guys at Carnegie Mellon fashioning a cucumber into a robot hand on a veggie platter." I don't if that was a better answer than just saying, "Yup - it's porn."