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Thursday, November 17, 2005

Dirty Dancing

A NASA scientist developed a "skin" for robots that allows them to move away from collisions with humans in space. To demonstrate it, he attached it to a robot and hired a ballerina to dance with it. The shape of the robot is, ah... unfortunate. But very funny.

Click here for the video. Here for the PopSci article.

(Hat-tip to Keith V.)

posted by Jar(egg)head at 15:48

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