The dilemma of artificial intelligence "Now it's like getting on a plane, 50% of the engineers who designed it think there's a 10% chance it will disintegrate, would you get on that plane?"
A robot that doesn't like having its nose touched Someone attempts to interact with British company Engineered Arts' humanoid robot Ameca. He tries to touch his nose, but the robot doesn't like that and pushes the human hand away.
Prefabricated folding houses The British company Ten Fold Engineering, designed some prefabricated houses which can be folded and carried in a truck.
Mechanical Elephant This incredible piece of engineering and art is situated in Nantes, France. Do you remember the Giant Spider build by the same two engineers/artists?
The Elephant is 12 metres high, 8 metres wide and 21 metres long; 48.4 tons of steel and wood (tulip. 450 horsepower motor. Spped 1 - 3 kmph. 60 cylinders (44 hydraulic, 6 pneumatic and 10 gas)
Located in the Warehouses of the shipyards that closed in 1987, Les Machines de L'ile is part of the Ile de Nantes urban renewal project.
Together with many other mechanical giant insects and many other touristic interests including watching the workers build for their next projects. You will see the Great Elephant in action, the Machine Gallery, Marine World Carousel, Workshop, Cafe, restaurant and gift shop.
The Great Elephant
Indian students have created a functional Iron Man suit This exoskeleton is the brainchild of final-year student, Vimal Govind Manikandan from the MES College of Engineering.
He says he was inspired by Hollywood movies, especially Avatar’s fictional AMP (Amplified Mobility Platform) suit.
Ditching expensive and complex software programs and sensors, Manikandan says his G2 prototype uses battery-powered pressurized air-chambers that help the giant robot move about and lift up to 150 kilograms. Developed with help from college authorities and students, the G2 uses a pneumatic compressor unit - or pressurized-air chamber system - and a control unit which combine to make the prototype workable.
The team of students designed and built the frame with local support.
Manikandan believes his robot can potentially be used in the military and industrial sectors which require the lifting and moving of heavy materials.
Though not as sleek as similar products on the market, like the recently unveiled range of exoskeleton suits by Panasonic, the G2 has one big advantage.
It cost just US$750 to build the prototype.
In Tune with Time – Watchmaker Masahiro Kikuno Masahiro Kikuno is a master craftsman who belongs to an exclusive international group of independent watchmakers. These consummate artists create timepieces that reflect their deepest ideals, with no connection to commercial watch manufacturers. Kikuno's creations are deeply influenced by traditional Japanese culture. He's fascinated by a masterpiece called the Myriad Year Clock, which was built by a 19th-century Japanese mechanical genius. Containing over a thousand hand-made parts, the clock is a marvel of complex and precise engineering. Kikuno seeks to transcend that old master's achievement by giving the clock a modern rebirth in the form of an elegant wristwatch. This program documents Kikuno's exacting methods of designing and hand-machining all of the delicate parts needed to create a modern masterpiece.
The world’s ugliest music | Scott Rickard | TEDxMIA Scott Rickard has degrees in Mathematics, Computer Science, and Electrical Engineering from M.I.T. and MA and PhD degrees in Applied and Computational Mathematics from Princeton University. At University College Dublin, he founded the Complex & Adaptive Systems Laboratory, where biologists, geologists, mathematicians, computer scientists, social scientists and economists work on problems which matter to people. He is passionate about mathematics, music and educating the next generation of scientists and mathematicians.
Automatic and manual transmission. What are the differences; What is best: Manual or automatic transmission; This disagreement has existed for decades. Manual and automatic transmissions are completely different technologies, which use different principles. One is based on a simple pair of gears, While the other in a set of Planetary gears. One uses a torque converter, while another clutch. This video from the Learn Engineering channel makes a comparison of technologies.
Meet the Greek software engineer behind Twitter! Argyris Zymnis is the creator of AdGrok, an online advertising start-up, recently bought by Twitter, and a specialist in data analysis. Born in Athens, Argyris began his academic studies at Cambridge University in 2004 and later received a master's degree (MS) and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. His research focuses on developing optimization algorithms for various applications in science and engineering. He began his professional career in Adchemy as a research engineer prior to founding AdGrok in 2010. As of 2011, he works for Twitter as a software engineer.
How Stealth technology works on planes The goal of stealth technology is to make an aircraft invisible to radar. But how feasible such a thing when we're talking about a huge metal object; This video from the channel Real Engineering explains.