Miscellaneous

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A Celebration of Risk (a.k.a., Robots Take a Spill)

Published on Jun 6, 2015

DARPA is an agency that takes high risks in pursuit of great rewards. This video is a celebration of risk.

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Beautiful aerial wedding photography

Published on Jun 11, 2015

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ZMR250 racing copter - worst possible crash

Published on Jun 15, 2015

A little slapstick lap where I boomerang max speed into my own noggin! Luckily, I did not hurt myself, other than a bump on the head. Be safer than me! I am going to revamp my pilot seating zone once my head feels better

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Robot Suicide

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Article "Paranoid android: Cleaning gadget 'switches itself on' and moves onto kitchen hotplate in 'suicide bid'"
Local media in Austria speculated it was a 'suicide bid' from the robot
Firefighters had to evacuate the building after it started a blaze in kitchen

November 12, 2013

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A self-stopping car accident

Published on May 19, 2015

What the car company says about the incident:
"Volvo says horrible ‘self-parking car accident’ happened because driver didn’t have ‘pedestrian detection’"

by Kashmir Hill
May 26, 2015

Autonomous-braking car accident in Dominican Republic. The people hit by the car "were bruised but are are ok."

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Shitty robot arm trying to cut a hotdog

Published on Oct 15, 2015

So I added a knife to my shitty robot arm. And I added a manual control, using a gyroscope.
None of us (the robot arm and I) are pleased with how this worked out.

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TV drone crashes during ski race - Marcel Hirscher at Madonna di Campiglio

Published on Dec 22, 2015

Marcel Hirscher - Madonna di Campiglio Slalom 2nd run - FIS Alpine 2016