CyberMotion Simulator, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, 2010 (via BLDGBLOG)
‘The Simulator, Wired writes, is “a RoboCoaster industrial robotic arm adapted and programmed to simulate an F1 Ferrari F2007.” I’m curious what everyday architectural uses such a robo-arm might have. An office full of moving cubicles held aloft by black robotic arms that lift, turn, and rotate each desk based on who the worker wants to talk to; mobile bedroom furniture for a depressed ex-astronaut; avant-garde set design for a new play in East London; a vertigo-treatment facility designed by Aristide Antonas; surveillance towers for traffic police in outer Tokyo; a hawk-watching platform in Fort Washington State Park. You show up for your first day of high school somewhere in a Chinese colonial city in central Africa and find that everyone—in room after room, holding hundreds of people—is sitting ten feet off the ground in these weird and wormy chairs, dipping and weaving and reading Shakespeare.’
the hello-bot! - sketchbook page
old art.
HELLO.
WELCOME TO AKIHABARA.
the designed pavement at Akihabara.
it’s about the size of both of your feet.
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Noisia consists of three talented guys from Groningen. the Netherlands, and are established producers of electronic music. Alpha Centauri is the third single taken from their debut album Split the Atom.
Robot - by Tim Burton
via: Ken Turner | Superpunch
“Two Faced Robot” shirts from Studio Yeaney’s Zazzle store are now available: http://bit.ly/hjSUhk
Of course, you can also submit anytime you want!!
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