Miscellaneous

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https://youtu.be/NU_azR1t92s

Japanese Office Prank: Attacked By Giant Gundam Robot

Published on Feb 11, 2015

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https://youtu.be/PaNSCvM6O20

Giant Robot Slippers with Sound from ThinkGeek

Published on Apr 25, 2014

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https://youtu.be/r56uvT34qeI

Giant Robot Spider Attacks Dogs - Prank

Published on Sep 19, 2015


NEW Giant Robotic Spider Dog Attack Prank, from Reality Pranks, back by popular demand, our robotic remote controlled spider is back.
here we take the giant spider and prank dogs on the street and in the dog park,some got scared and others not like the poodle.
we also had a german shepherd attack the spider as well as a Boxer and a Pit Bull, the pit bull was the sweetest out of all of them and even
tripped over the robotic spider.we used in a previous episode and we used it to
we also scared other pets as well which will be in the behind the scenes footage. enjoy this episode a lot of work went into it,
just remember watch in 4k Ultra HD if possible because the youtube platform supports it, so if you have a 4k tv then fire it up and if not buy one, the prices are down.

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https://youtu.be/Ma3VEcvUY5o

Giant Robot Spider Prank

Published on Oct 6, 2015

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https://youtu.be/ntvRmou9aVM

Crazy Giant Spider Prank!

Published on Oct 19, 2015


https://youtu.be/IrE9K6zMxD4

Crazy Giant Spider Prank Behind The Scenes & Extras!!

Published on Oct 19, 2015

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https://youtu.be/W1flnAKL_gE

Hitchbot (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?7076) prank on the news!!

Published on Aug 4, 2015


Before the death of Hitchbot, I was the last person to experience the hitchhiking experiment. It was handed off to me and Ed in Philly on top of the Rocky Steps at Art Museum. At that point, I did not know much about the Robot except that he had a bucket list to visit famous landmarks around the United States. I later learned that his next destination was to travel to Washington D.C., so I reached out to my twitter and snapchat followers for someone come meet me to pick up the robot and bring him along his journey. I sat him on a bench in the historically known oldest residential street of Philadelphia, Elfreth's Alley. I waited there for awhile, but no one had come for Hitchbot, so I left him to continue his hitchhiking journey on his own.

The next day, the terrible news was reported that Hitchbot had been vandalized and completely destroyed. News reporters and Anchors from various news stations were reaching out to me to hear about his last moments alive, so Ed and I decided to do an interview, but to prank the news during the interview as Ed's character "Always Teste."

We were upset about the vandalism of Hitchbot and went in search to find any Surveillance footage of the area that may have existed, so we could find out who the killer was! We had no luck, and then the idea sparked for us to create fake surveillance footage of "Always Teste," Ed's character and PRANK THE NEWS!! We bought similar parts and rebuilt the arms of the robot to utilize in the surveillance video. We placed a camera at the scene where Hitchbot was last seen and where his remains were found.

I edited the video to look like a true "surveillance video" and I sent it off to the news because they had all been asking me for interviews and information. The reporters began reporting, showing the footage, and the alleged killer of this so called famous robot! It actually unexpectedly became trending World-Wide top story news! So I gathered some of the news stories and revealed the prank of the REAL FULL VERSION of the Surveillence Footage, showing that indeed, it was just a joke and that "Teste" was not the killer, nor was the robot even real.

I guess this just goes to show that not everything that you hear on the news is real, or for that matter, what you hear from anybody. WE PRANKED THE NEWS, WORLDWIDE!!!

We wanted to raise awareness of the situation and all of the negativity that was now being associated with Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love, and for people to realize that all Philadelphians are not bad people. I reached out to the creator of Hitchbot, David Harris Smith, to see if he had or would like to setup a gofund me account, or kickstarter to rebuild a newer, better Hitchbot himself, with HIS TRUE creators. (There was a person who had created an account which got cancelled because he was not the true creator). David is currently doing the research and may have something set up in a few days. In the meantime, if you would like to help the Hitchbot movement, please show them support by following their social media.

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https://youtu.be/UPXUG8q4jKU

New York City rat taking pizza home on the subway (Pizza Rat)

Published on Sep 21, 2015


A rat tries to bring slice of pizza down subway station stairs.

OR

Master Splinter bringing food home to feed the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?


https://youtu.be/qxRdilc6_A4

Pizza Rat prank!

Published on Nov 8, 2015


https://youtu.be/HLcSDFtHOGA

Pizza Rat RC car prank featuring PrankvsPrank - How to prank

Published on Nov 8, 2015

Article "Two Pranksters Built a Pizza Rat Robot to Terrify New Yorkers (https://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/11/someone-built-a-pizza-rat-robot.html)"

by Elaine Godfrey
November 9, 2015

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https://youtu.be/6nzqwUSe-0s

Robot Voice Prank

Uploaded on Aug 29, 2011


Jared and Kristin prank calls a mom who's bank account was hacked recently. Kristin explains that it has happened again and transfers her. Jared pretends to be an automated voice who does not understand her.

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https://youtu.be/KaehKhrw2KE

Impractical Jokers - Q's Sex Robot

Published on Mar 4, 2016

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https://youtu.be/yGPyHbLO9K0

Epic robot prank in Tokyo and New York

Published on Feb 29, 2016


What happens when a family of interactive robots takes to the streets of Tokyo and New York? Sparks fly, of course! ooVoo's robot family reminds us that technology can connect people in a huge variety of ways!


https://youtu.be/EvlUd-jTIO8

Behind the scenes

Published on Feb 29, 2016

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https://youtu.be/eaa21dMb3Nc

Ford driverless car surprises the public on city streets

Published on Sep 13, 2017


Today, a simple head nod or hand wave from a driver is usually enough to indicate it’s okay for a pedestrian to cross the street, but in an autonomous vehicle future, how will a self-driving car with no human driver communicate with pedestrians, cyclists or humans operating other cars on the road?

Looking to prepare for this eventual reality, Ford Motor Company partnered with Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, to conduct a user experience study to test out a method for communicating a vehicle’s intent by soliciting real-world reactions to a self-driving car on public roads.

“Understanding how self-driving vehicles impact the world as we know it today is critical to ensuring we’re creating the right experience for tomorrow,” said John Shutko, Ford’s human factors technical specialist. “We need to solve for the challenges presented by not having a human driver, so designing a way to replace the head nod or hand wave is fundamental to ensuring safe and efficient operation of self-driving vehicles in our communities.”

As part of Ford’s efforts to ensure autonomous vehicles can safely share the road with humans, the joint research project set out to investigate the most effective means for the vehicle to communicate. The team considered using displayed text, but that would require people all understand the same language. The use of symbols was rejected because symbols historically have low recognition among consumers.

In the end, the researchers decided lighting signals are the most effective means for creating a visual communications protocol for self-driving vehicles. As light signals for turning and braking indication are already standardized and widely understood, they determined the use of lighting signals is best to communicate whether the vehicle is in autonomous drive mode, beginning to yield, or about to accelerate from a stop.

So Ford outfitted a Transit Connect van with a light bar placed on the windshield. To simulate a fully self-driving experience without using an actual autonomous vehicle, the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute team developed a way to conceal the driver with a “seat suit.”

The suit creates the illusion of a fully autonomous vehicle, which is necessary to test and evaluate real-world encounters and behaviors. The researchers then went to work experimenting with three light signals to test the communication of the vehicle’s intent:

Yield: Two white lights that move side to side, indicating vehicle is about to yield to a full stop

Active autonomous driving mode: Solid white light to indicate vehicle is driving autonomously

Start to go: Rapidly blinking white light to indicate vehicle is beginning to accelerate from a stop

The simulated autonomous Transit Connect was driven on public roads in northern Virginia – home to a density of traffic and pedestrians – throughout August, with researchers capturing video and logs of pedestrian reactions. More than 150 hours of data over approximately 1,800 miles of driving was collected in an urban environment, including encounters with pedestrians, bicyclists and other drivers. External signals were activated more than 1,650 times at various locations around Arlington, Va., including at intersections, parking lots, garages, airport roadways, and various other locations.

Numerous high-definition cameras mounted in the study vehicle provided a 360-degree view of surrounding areas and captured the behavior of other road users. This data will be valuable to understanding if other road users change their behaviors in response to self-driving vehicles and the signals they employ.

"This work is of value not only to vehicle users and manufacturers, but also to anyone who walks, rides or drives alongside autonomous vehicles in the future,” said Andy Schaudt, project director, Center for Automated Vehicle Systems, Virginia Tech Transportation Institute. “We are proud to support Ford in developing this important research.”

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