Self-cloning robots are a chip off the old block

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May 11, 2005 - 23:04

Z Cheema

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BIRDS and bees do it - now machines can reproduce too. The first scalable robot to have built an exact copy of itself could herald a fundamental rethink of how robots may be used to explore other planets.

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18624997.100

See video of it here, makes a nice toy...
http://www.mae.cornell.edu/ccsl/research/selfrep/video/4x4ht4a.wmv

Regards Z Cheema
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May 11, 2005 - 23:23

Alan Roberts

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Now, that would make a fun Christmas present.

Get my test cards document, and cards for 625, 525, 720 and 1080. Thanks to Gavin Gration for hosting them.

Camera settings documents are held by Daniel Browning and at the EBU

My book, 'Circles of Confusion' is available here.

Also EBU Tech.3335 tells how to test cameras, and R.118 tells how to use the results.

May 12, 2005 - 09:30

H and M Video

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Pity they can't mutate my computer into a dual processor, etc.

Harry

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Now with a PC Specialist Quad Core i7-3770, 16GB RAM, 180GB SSD, GeForce GTX560 Ti Graphics Card, Blu-Ray & DVD R/W Burners and can't wait to set it up. Now up and running. What a difference in Blu-Ray footage.