Mansun, who blogs at Omocoro.jp, constructed an "auto licking machine" to lick cartoon girls. [via]
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Apr 26, 2016
Gentleman builds tongue robot to lick cartoon girls
Robot assemblers build structures out of identical modular pieces
Pushing forward on the vision of “programmable matter,” MIT researchers demonstrated a new kind of assembly system based on robots that can collaboratively build complicated structures from small identical pieces. Professor Neil Gershenfeld, graduate student Benjamin Jenett, and their colleagues present their research in a scientific paper titled “Material–Robot System for Assembly of Discrete Cellular […]
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Watch: OpenAI enabled a one-handed robot to solve a Rubik's Cube
OpenAI Inc. demonstrated a one-handed robot solving a Rubik’s Cube. Apparently the real breakthrough in this milestone was teaching the system to do the task in simulation. “While the video makes it easy to focus on the physical robot, the magic is mostly happening in simulation, and transferring things learned in simulation to the real […]
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This bot automatically entered Twitter giveaways, won four times a day
Hunter Scott decided to design a bot to enter Twitter giveaways that asked for follow/like/retweets. He wrote a Python script that searched for and retweeted giveaways, and manually followed accounts when needed. Soon, the problem was not getting banned by Twitter: They have rate limits which prevent you from tweeting too often, retweeting too aggressively, […]
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Ace Marks is making high-end dress shoes affordable
We can’t all go through life with just a pair of sneakers and flip-flops. Sometimes, you have to invest in a pair of high-quality dress shoes. However, you’ve probably discovered that high-end footwear almost always comes with eye-popping price tags. You’ve got to compromise on second-hand or just suck it up and take out a […]
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Save over 70% on what may be the biggest blanket ever made
We have a theory about those throw blankets that are barely big enough to cover your legs. The only people who seem to make them or use them are grandmothers, and the blankets are only that small because Nana got bored halfway through the sewing job. Look, we’re sure she means well. But if you […]
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3 VPN options that will help you stay protected in 2019 and beyond
Remember when the default state of your online presence was anonymity? That’s not so clear-cut anymore, and the worst part is you may not even know who is using your data or what they’re using it for. Small wonder that so many people are choosing to surf through virtual private networks. VPNs filter web access […]
