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This is Sarcos, a robot Carnegie Mellon grad student Ben Stephens is teaching to emulate human movements using motion capture technology. Check out this unblinking bot mimic human dancing in this clip. More »
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One of the more unexpected - and most welcome - comic stories to come from last weekend's Comic-Con was the announcement that Devil's Due Publishing has partnered with European publisher Humanoids to bring some of their best stories to American audiences, starting with Nazi-science-gone-wrong tale I Am Legion and dark humor book The Zombies Who Ate the World. But what makes Devil's Due's latest attempt different from similar- and failed- ventures by DC Comics and Humanoids themselves? More »
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Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto likes soft, blobby, stretchy membrane-like things. He likes to hang them from walls, slather them across the floors, and wrap human beings in them. He uses materials like nylon and cotton for maximum softness, and sometimes even fills them with aromatic spices. People love going to see his exhibits because they somehow manage to fill observers with the warm fuzzies and creep them out at the same time. More »
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