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Peg -- we, or more precisely we with the help/largely by virtue of our machines, are moving quite rapidly, and more and more rapidly with time, toward a complete understanding of (our kind of) life -- Creator or not, Creation or not, Creationism or not, if we don't sooner wipe ourselves out or get wiped out by some extinction-level event, we, or more precisely we with the help/largely by virtue of our machines, will soon have every measure of the power over (our kind of) life itself of a Creator

and then there are our machines -- an entirely new form of life that as far as we know of this universe only such as we could create, an entirely new form of life we've already largely created that will leave us, at least as we are now, behind

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Robot Quadrotors Perform James Bond Theme

Uploaded by UnivPennsylvania on Feb 28, 2012

Flying robot quadrotors perform the James Bond Theme by playing various instruments including the keyboard, drums and maracas, a cymbal, and the debut of an adapted guitar built from a couch frame. The quadrotors play this "couch guitar" by flying over guitar strings stretched across a couch frame; plucking the strings with a stiff wire attached to the base of the quadrotor. A special microphone attached to the frame records the notes made by the "couch guitar".

These flying quadrotors are completely autonomous, meaning humans are not controlling them; rather they are controlled by a computer programed with instructions to play the instruments.

Penn's School of Engineering and Applied Science is home to some of the most innovative robotics research on the planet, much of it coming out of the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Lab.

This video premiered at the TED2012 Conference in Long Beach, California on February 29, 2012. Deputy Dean for Education and GRASP lab member Vijay Kumar presented some of this groundbreaking work at the TED2012 conference, an international gathering of people and ideas from technology, entertainment, and design.

The engineers from Penn, Daniel Mellinger and Alex Kushleyev, have formed a company called KMel Robotics that will design and market these quadrotors.

More information: http://www.upenn.edu/spotlights/penn-quadrotors-ted

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sUeGC-8dyk [with comments]

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