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Hume: the bipedal 'Parkour' robot (video)
A future threatened by wild robotic rottweilers with no humanoid dog-walkers to keep them in check? That must not happen. Fortunately, we'll have a fleet-footed droid named "Hume" to keep us safe: he's the work of engineers at Meka Robotics and the University of Texas at Austin, who want to be the first to build a bipedal robot with Parkour skills, aka rough terrain free-running or "Human-Centered Hyper-Agility". Sure, they still have some way to go, but watch the video after the break, then imagine it without the wobbly coat stand, and then re-imagine it from the POV of an angry pup.
Second Life snowball fight! Lindens versus residents!
Stop the presses! There will be a Lindens vs. residents snowball fight in Second Life in the following regions from 3 - 5 PM, SLT: Eldridge, Hatton, Solomon, Hume, Kariba and Chukchi. This will be counted Round 3 in a series of snowball fights having begun earlier today at 5 AM. Man, 5 AM? I guess being hit by a snowball is one way to wake yourself up that early.It's not made clear in the blogpost how this will happen, but presumably there will be free animations/objects to handle everything. If anyone can make it to these, give 'em hell for Akela! We're proud of you, soldier!
