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I Love NY – And Robots!

April 12th, 2009

An NYU student, Kacie Kinzer, creates cardboard robots, called Tweenbots, that try to navigate the streets of the big city.  They can only go straight so to get to their destination they depend upon the kindness of strangers.  Their goals are announced on flags they carry.

The results were unexpected. Over the course of the following months, throughout numerous missions, the Tweenbots were successful in rolling from their start point to their far-away destination assisted only by strangers. Every time the robot got caught under a park bench, ground futilely against a curb, or became trapped in a pothole, some passerby would always rescue it and send it toward its goal. Never once was a Tweenbot lost or damaged.

I wonder, will this:

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Grow up to become:

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Let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late!

Update: BTW, is it me, or does it look like that Cylon is giving someone the finger?

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Darth Vader Recites The Alphabet

April 11th, 2009
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Relax!!!

April 11th, 2009
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I Love NY!

April 4th, 2009
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