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ICYMI: AI bots, the wall-climbing drone and more
#fivemin-widget-blogsmith-image-676426{display:none;} .cke_show_borders #fivemin-widget-blogsmith-image-676426, #postcontentcontainer #fivemin-widget-blogsmith-image-676426{width:570px;display:block;} try{document.getElementById("fivemin-widget-blogsmith-image-676426").style.display="none";}catch(e){}Today on In Case You Missed It: Microsoft debuted a teenaged AI bot on Twitter to study human interactions and USC researchers are testing out bots with realistic faces for video chat support. Stanford's SCAMP is a UAV that can land and climb the sides of buildings. And the AxiDraw is a personal writing and drawing machine that will not screw up the decorative calligraphy on anything. We also enjoyed this survival video showing how to start a fire with a lemon. As always, please share any great tech or science videos you find by using the #ICYMI hashtag on Twitter for @mskerryd.
Stanford's SCAMP robot can fly, climb and perch on walls
Stanford's SCAMP looks like a quadcopter at first glance, but it can do much more than fly and hover in the air. Just like what its full name -- Stanford Climbing and Aerial Maneuvering Platform -- says, it can perch on and climb walls, much like an insect. A team from the university's Biomimetics and Dexterous Manipulation Lab took what they learned from previous projects to create the machine. One of those projects is Stickybot, a robotic, wall-climbing gecko.
