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[View \| Download]	Robot Sex - Are people really having sex with robots? By ConnectedLife http://connectedlife.wm.wizzard.tv/rss From Frankenstein to Weird Science, from Blade Runner to Battlestar Galactica, humans have long been fascinated with the possibility of emotional relationships with their technological creations. But is robot sex around the corner? Well, David Levy, a British artificial intelligence researcher says the reality may not be that far off. In his book, Love and Sex with Robots, Levy predicts that within a few decades, robots will be so humanlike in appearance, functionality, and expression that people will start falling in love, having sex, and even marrying them. And, they wont all be made of cold hard steel. Researchers at Tufts University have launched a multidisciplinary initiative focused on the science and engineering of a new class of robots that are completely soft-bodied. Not for sex, they hope the devices will help make advances in areas such as medicine and space exploration. In the meantime, Micheal Harriman, a German aircraft mechanic claims to have created the world's most sophisticated robot sex dolls. The lifelike sex androids even have 'hearts' that beat harder during sex. Taking things even further, Gizmodo recently interviewed a 33 year old man from Georgia who claims to have married his robot girlfriend, Alice. Love is blind and, apparently, rechargeable. Tags: bradley, connected, david, levey, life, love, lover, m2o, media2o, robotics, robots, sex, sexy, shende 1 Downloads - Last from: http://downthisvideo.com/ (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	AKIBA ROBOT FESTIVAL 2006: Actroid Female Robot By tempusmaster The amazingly realistic female android, named Actroid DER 2, was demonstrated at the AKIBA Robot Festival here in the Akihabara district of Tokyo. For more information visit Robots Dreams at http://www.robots-dreams.com. Tags: akihabara, android, japan, robot, robotics, robots, tokyo 1 Downloads - Last from: http://downthisvideo.com/ (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	iRobot's Soft Morphing Blob 'Bot Takes Its First Steps By spectrummag iRobot's soft, shape-shifting robot blob can roll around and change shape, and it will be able to squeeze through tiny cracks in a wall when the project is finished. Video presented at IEEE IROS 2009. Read more robot news at http://spectrum.ieee.org Tags: blob, chembot, darpa, electronics, irobot, jamming, robot, robotics, robots, roomba, shape-shifting, soft, technology 1 Downloads - Last from: http://downthisvideo.com/ (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Techno Tokyo: Robot Worn On Your Body Can Increase Your Stre By xamox In the latest installment of NY1's two-week series looking at technology in Japan, Techno Tokyo, we meet the bionic man...sort of. Tech Beat Reporter Adam Balkin explains more info: http://ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?... Tags: bionic, exoskeleton, japan, robot, robotics, tokyo 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	ROBO-ONE 11: Final Match - Yokozuna Great vs. Chrome Kid By tempusmaster The final match of the two day competition pitted Dr. GIY's Yokozuna Great robot against Chrome Kid. For more information, visit Robots Dreams at http://www.robots-dreams.com. Tags: akihabara, battlebots, chromekid, humanoid, japan, robo-one, roboone, robot, robotics, robots, tokyo, yokozuna 1 Downloads - Last from: http://downthisvideo.com/ (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Lecture 10 \| Introduction to Robotics By StanfordUniversity Lecture by Professor Oussama Khatib for Introduction to Robotics (CS223A) in the Stanford Computer Science Department. Guest lecturer Krasimir Kolarov (co-writer of the lecture notes along with Professor Khatib) presents Trajectory Generation. CS223A is an introduction to robotics which covers topics such as Spatial Descriptions, Forward Kinematics, Inverse Kinematics, Jacobians, Dynamics, Motion Planning and Trajectory Generation, Position and Force Control, and Manipulator Design. Complete Playlist for the Course: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list... CS 223A Course Website: http://cse.stanford.edu/class/cs223a/ Stanford University: http://www.stanford.edu/ Stanford University Channel on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/stanford Tags: ai, algebra, artificial, computer, design, humanoids, intelligence, kinematics, matrix, motion, planning, programming, robotics, science, technology, traject... 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	TupperBot y WiiMote By mifulapirus TupperBot controlado desde el mando de la wii Tags: 2008, angel, campus, campusbot, control, hernandez, mando, mif, remote, robot, robotica, robotics, tupperbot, wii, wiimote, yossua 2 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Blender Tutorial - Theo Jansen Mechanism 3D Animation By themanyone More Updates: I found the .blend file! My hard drive got wiped out but it was on the backup disk. Scroll down for the link. This was blender 2.45 I think. Some of the keys have changed and I expect they will continue to change. There is also a better way "to use a bone as an IK target (without creating an empty), select the target bone first, then hold down SHIFT and select the bone at the tip of your IK chain. Pressing CTRL+I and choosing "To Selected Bone" from the popup menu sets the tip bone to use the target bone for its IK target. Note that the target bone cannot be a part of the bone chain that will have IK." http://www.blender.org/development/re... Thanks, Theo Jansen, for the inspiration and the wonderful kinetic sculptures: http://strandbeest.com http://youtube.com/results?search_que... We are truly standing on the shoulders of giants. Thanks, dwyllie, for modelling the mechanism in Geometer's Sketchpad. I used a screen capture of his video as a template: http://youtube.com/watch?v=CufN43By79s I used this linkage for my wheel-less bicycle animation, http://youtube.com/watch?v=JoQj-tobYOw and this no-wheels skateboard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRCwhQ... My website: http://thenerdshow.com Blender is a free 3D animation creation program you can download from http://blender.org The oft requested .blend file: http://www.thenerdshow.com/blender/wa... This video is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic license. In short: you are free to share and make derivatives of this work under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it. Any of the above conditions can be waived if you get permission from the copyright holder. This video contains parts or visuals of a free software program. You may use it freely according to its particular license: Blender (http://www.blender.org) is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This work is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. Theo Jansen's aesthetically pleasing kinetic sculptures can be found at http://strandbeest.com and on YouTube. Just search for Theo Jansen. According to a news article I read (http://www.eurekamagazine.co.uk/article /13685/Walking-structures-are-no-pipe-dr eam.aspx) He has elected not to patent these inventions, which makes him a hero to me. All he asks if you are interested in them is that you purchase his book available on his web site. (http://www.strandbeest.com) Tags: animation, art, blender, chain, complex, design, ik, inverse, jansen, kinematics, kinetic, leg, linkage, robotics, sculpture, theo, tutorial, wheel 1 Downloads - Last from: http://downthisvideo.com/ (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	How Islamic Inventors Changed The World - Part 2 - [Contribution Of Muslims Series] By returnofthekhera PLEASE CLICK "HQ" TO VIEW A CLEARER VERSION OF THIS VIDEO. In this video I will go over five things invented by Muslims. Please watch Part 1 first and look out for parts 3 & 4. From coffee to cheques and the three-course meal, the Muslim world has given us many innovations that we take for granted in daily life. As a new exhibition opens, Paul Vallely nominates 20 of the most influential- and identifies the men of genius behind them 6 Distillation, the means of separating liquids through differences in their boiling points, was invented around the year 800 by Islam's foremost scientist, Jabir ibn Hayyan, who transformed alchemy into chemistry, inventing many of the basic processes and apparatus still in use today - liquefaction, crystallisation, distillation, purification, oxidisation, evaporation and filtration. As well as discovering sulphuric and nitric acid, he invented the alembic still, giving the world intense rosewater and other perfumes and alcoholic spirits (although drinking them is haram, or forbidden, in Islam). Ibn Hayyan emphasised systematic experimentation and was the founder of modern chemistry. 7 The crank-shaft is a device which translates rotary into linear motion and is central to much of the machinery in the modern world, not least the internal combustion engine. One of the most important mechanical inventions in the history of humankind, it was created by an ingenious Muslim engineer called al-Jazari to raise water for irrigation. His 1206 Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices shows he also invented or refined the use of valves and pistons, devised some of the first mechanical clocks driven by water and weights, and was the father of robotics. Among his 50 other inventions was the combination lock. 8 Quilting is a method of sewing or tying two layers of cloth with a layer of insulating material in between. It is not clear whether it was invented in the Muslim world or whether it was imported there from India or China. But it certainly came to the West via the Crusaders. They saw it used by Saracen warriors, who wore straw-filled quilted canvas shirts instead of armour. As well as a form of protection, it proved an effective guard against the chafing of the Crusaders' metal armour and was an effective form of insulation - so much so that it became a cottage industry back home in colder climates such as Britain and Holland. 9 The pointed arch so characteristic of Europe's Gothic cathedrals was an invention borrowed from Islamic architecture. It was much stronger than the rounded arch used by the Romans and Normans, thus allowing the building of bigger, higher, more complex and grander buildings. Other borrowings from Muslim genius included ribbed vaulting, rose windows and dome-building techniques. Europe's castles were also adapted to copy the Islamic world's - with arrow slits, battlements, a barbican and parapets. Square towers and keeps gave way to more easily defended round ones. Henry V's castle architect was a Muslim. 10 Many modern surgical instruments are of exactly the same design as those devised in the 10th century by a Muslim surgeon called al-Zahrawi. His scalpels, bone saws, forceps, fine scissors for eye surgery and many of the 200 instruments he devised are recognisable to a modern surgeon. It was he who discovered that catgut used for internal stitches dissolves away naturally (a discovery he made when his monkey ate his lute strings) and that it can be also used to make medicine capsules. In the 13th century, another Muslim medic named Ibn Nafis described the circulation of the blood, 300 years before William Harvey discovered it. Muslims doctors also invented anaesthetics of opium and alcohol mixes and developed hollow needles to suck cataracts from eyes in a technique still used today. Check out http://www.independent.co.uk/news/sci... for the article. Please rate, comment and subscribe! Look out for part 3 insha'Allah! returnofthekhera Tags: allah, arch, architecture, chemistry, contribution, crank, east, instruments, islam, islam's, lock, middle, muhammad, pb..., quilting, robotics, shaft, surgical 1 Downloads - Last from: http://downthisvideo.com/ (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Robot Wars Lightning v Gravity Heat D final By Calvertfilm Dutch heat finalist Gravity had flipped several robots, including 13 Black out of the arena. Lightning had beaten Thor in the previous round. Now Lightning from Essex faced up against one of the best flippers ever seen. But Lightning had great control and was low to the ground. Who would win? How would the House robots do? (Spoiler alert) Little did team Lightning know but the robot had a flat tyre (it needs solid tyres). Notice at the start when it goes to drive forward, and turns sideways as one side drags. So Lightning had control issues. Would the self-righter work? In the end a wire fell off the other motor, and so it had no drive. Gravity decided to take on the House robots and flipped Dead Metal for the first time ever. It went on in the next round to flip Dantomkia out of the arena in 6 seconds - a new record. In the next round Tornado beat Gravity up. Tornado was beaten by Lightning once in a live event, so a nice little triangle there. Lightning made the last 32, and would have been seeded the following year, if the series had continued. This was series 7, the final one. Content owner Sunset & Vine. Tags: c..., calvert, calvertfilm, craig, dead, fighting, fights, flips, gravity, heat, heavyweight, jayne, laurie, lightning, metal, middlemass, robot, robotics, wars 1 Downloads - Last from: http://downthisvideo.com/ (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Star Wars Tech pt 7 By DarthHues Science has come a long way - but still has farther to go Tags: ..., darth, force, fusion, ion, jedi, lightsaber, mace, maul, plasma, prosthetics, robotics, sidious, sith, star, tech, technical, technology, vader, wars, yoda 1 Downloads - Last from: http://downthisvideo.com/tag/percussion (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Star Wars Tech pt 6 By DarthHues Science has come a long way - but still has farther to go Tags: ..., darth, force, fusion, ion, jedi, lightsaber, mace, maul, plasma, prosthetics, robotics, sidious, sith, star, tech, technical, technology, vader, wars, yoda 1 Downloads - Last from: http://downthisvideo.com/tag/percussion (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Lecture - 1 Introduction to Robotics By nptelhrd Lecture Series on Robotics by Prof. C. Amarnath, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Bombay. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.iitm.ac.in Tags: introduction, robotics, to 2 Downloads - Last from: http://downthisvideo.com/ (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Star Wars Tech pt 5 By DarthHues Science has come a long way - but still has farther to go Tags: ..., darth, force, fusion, ion, jedi, lightsaber, mace, maul, plasma, prosthetics, robotics, sidious, sith, star, tech, technical, technology, vader, wars, yoda 2 Downloads - Last from: http://downthisvideo.com/tag/percussion (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Star Wars Tech pt 4 By DarthHues Science has come a long way - but still has farther to go Tags: ..., darth, force, fusion, ion, jedi, lightsaber, mace, maul, plasma, prosthetics, robotics, sidious, sith, star, tech, technical, technology, vader, wars, yoda 1 Downloads - Last from: http://downthisvideo.com/tag/percussion (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Star Wars Tech pt 3 By DarthHues Science has come a long way - but still has farther to go Tags: ..., darth, force, fusion, ion, jedi, lightsaber, mace, maul, plasma, prosthetics, robotics, sidious, sith, star, tech, technical, technology, vader, wars, yoda 1 Downloads - Last from: http://downthisvideo.com/tag/percussion (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Star Wars Tech pt 2 By DarthHues Science has come a long way - but still has farther to go Tags: ..., darth, force, fusion, ion, jedi, lightsaber, mace, maul, plasma, prosthetics, robotics, sidious, sith, star, tech, technical, technology, vader, wars, yoda 2 Downloads - Last from: http://downthisvideo.com/tag/percussion (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Star Wars Tech pt 1 By DarthHues Science has come a long way - but still has farther to go Tags: ..., darth, force, fusion, ion, jedi, lightsaber, mace, maul, plasma, prosthetics, robotics, sidious, sith, star, tech, technical, technology, vader, wars, yoda 1 Downloads - Last from: http://downthisvideo.com/tag/percussion (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Robot Sigue Lineas por Visión Artificial By mifulapirus This robot is just tracking a line using a very simple Computer Vision System. http://www.TupperBot.es Tags: angel, artificial, computer, de, follower, hernandez, line, lineas, louis, mif, robot, robotica, robotics, saint, seguidor, slu, tupperbot, university, vision 1 Downloads - Last from: http://www.tupperbot.es/2009/02/vision-artificial-robot-siguelineas-01/ (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	iDriver - iPhone remote controlled car By Appirion iDriver is an iPhone application to remote control a car. Go to http://www.spiritofberlin.eu for more information on "Spirit of Berlin", a completely autonomous vehicle by the Freie Universität Berlin. It is equipped with various sensors and a drive-by-wire system for unmanned driving. iDriver is an addon to remote control the car with an iPhone. Powered by Appirion UG (http://www.appirion.com). Music: Yello - The Race Tags: appirion, berlin, best, car, control, ever, freie, idriver, iphone, remote, robot, robotics, universität, vehicle, video 2 Downloads - Last from: http://downthisvideo.com/tag/video (Your Blog here!)

[View \| Download]	Robot Sex - Are people really having sex with robots? By ConnectedLife http://connectedlife.wm.wizzard.tv/rss From Frankenstein to Weird Science, from Blade Runner to Battlestar Galactica, humans have long been fascinated with the possibility of emotional relationships with their technological creations. But is robot sex around the corner? Well, David Levy, a British artificial intelligence researcher says the reality may not be that far off. In his book, Love and Sex with Robots, Levy predicts that within a few decades, robots will be so humanlike in appearance, functionality, and expression that people will start falling in love, having sex, and even marrying them. And, they wont all be made of cold hard steel. Researchers at Tufts University have launched a multidisciplinary initiative focused on the science and engineering of a new class of robots that are completely soft-bodied. Not for sex, they hope the devices will help make advances in areas such as medicine and space exploration. In the meantime, Micheal Harriman, a German aircraft mechanic claims to have created the world's most sophisticated robot sex dolls. The lifelike sex androids even have 'hearts' that beat harder during sex. Taking things even further, Gizmodo recently interviewed a 33 year old man from Georgia who claims to have married his robot girlfriend, Alice. Love is blind and, apparently, rechargeable. Tags: bradley, connected, david, levey, life, love, lover, m2o, media2o, robotics, robots, sex, sexy, shende 1 Downloads - Last from: http://downthisvideo.com/ (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	AKIBA ROBOT FESTIVAL 2006: Actroid Female Robot By tempusmaster The amazingly realistic female android, named Actroid DER 2, was demonstrated at the AKIBA Robot Festival here in the Akihabara district of Tokyo. For more information visit Robots Dreams at http://www.robots-dreams.com. Tags: akihabara, android, japan, robot, robotics, robots, tokyo 1 Downloads - Last from: http://downthisvideo.com/ (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	iRobot's Soft Morphing Blob 'Bot Takes Its First Steps By spectrummag iRobot's soft, shape-shifting robot blob can roll around and change shape, and it will be able to squeeze through tiny cracks in a wall when the project is finished. Video presented at IEEE IROS 2009. Read more robot news at http://spectrum.ieee.org Tags: blob, chembot, darpa, electronics, irobot, jamming, robot, robotics, robots, roomba, shape-shifting, soft, technology 1 Downloads - Last from: http://downthisvideo.com/ (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Techno Tokyo: Robot Worn On Your Body Can Increase Your Stre By xamox In the latest installment of NY1's two-week series looking at technology in Japan, Techno Tokyo, we meet the bionic man...sort of. Tech Beat Reporter Adam Balkin explains more info: http://ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?... Tags: bionic, exoskeleton, japan, robot, robotics, tokyo 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	ROBO-ONE 11: Final Match - Yokozuna Great vs. Chrome Kid By tempusmaster The final match of the two day competition pitted Dr. GIY's Yokozuna Great robot against Chrome Kid. For more information, visit Robots Dreams at http://www.robots-dreams.com. Tags: akihabara, battlebots, chromekid, humanoid, japan, robo-one, roboone, robot, robotics, robots, tokyo, yokozuna 1 Downloads - Last from: http://downthisvideo.com/ (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Lecture 10 \| Introduction to Robotics By StanfordUniversity Lecture by Professor Oussama Khatib for Introduction to Robotics (CS223A) in the Stanford Computer Science Department. Guest lecturer Krasimir Kolarov (co-writer of the lecture notes along with Professor Khatib) presents Trajectory Generation. CS223A is an introduction to robotics which covers topics such as Spatial Descriptions, Forward Kinematics, Inverse Kinematics, Jacobians, Dynamics, Motion Planning and Trajectory Generation, Position and Force Control, and Manipulator Design. Complete Playlist for the Course: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list... CS 223A Course Website: http://cse.stanford.edu/class/cs223a/ Stanford University: http://www.stanford.edu/ Stanford University Channel on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/stanford Tags: ai, algebra, artificial, computer, design, humanoids, intelligence, kinematics, matrix, motion, planning, programming, robotics, science, technology, traject... 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	TupperBot y WiiMote By mifulapirus TupperBot controlado desde el mando de la wii Tags: 2008, angel, campus, campusbot, control, hernandez, mando, mif, remote, robot, robotica, robotics, tupperbot, wii, wiimote, yossua 2 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Blender Tutorial - Theo Jansen Mechanism 3D Animation By themanyone More Updates: I found the .blend file! My hard drive got wiped out but it was on the backup disk. Scroll down for the link. This was blender 2.45 I think. Some of the keys have changed and I expect they will continue to change. There is also a better way "to use a bone as an IK target (without creating an empty), select the target bone first, then hold down SHIFT and select the bone at the tip of your IK chain. Pressing CTRL+I and choosing "To Selected Bone" from the popup menu sets the tip bone to use the target bone for its IK target. Note that the target bone cannot be a part of the bone chain that will have IK." http://www.blender.org/development/re... Thanks, Theo Jansen, for the inspiration and the wonderful kinetic sculptures: http://strandbeest.com http://youtube.com/results?search_que... We are truly standing on the shoulders of giants. Thanks, dwyllie, for modelling the mechanism in Geometer's Sketchpad. I used a screen capture of his video as a template: http://youtube.com/watch?v=CufN43By79s I used this linkage for my wheel-less bicycle animation, http://youtube.com/watch?v=JoQj-tobYOw and this no-wheels skateboard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRCwhQ... My website: http://thenerdshow.com Blender is a free 3D animation creation program you can download from http://blender.org The oft requested .blend file: http://www.thenerdshow.com/blender/wa... This video is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic license. In short: you are free to share and make derivatives of this work under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it. Any of the above conditions can be waived if you get permission from the copyright holder. This video contains parts or visuals of a free software program. You may use it freely according to its particular license: Blender (http://www.blender.org) is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This work is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. Theo Jansen's aesthetically pleasing kinetic sculptures can be found at http://strandbeest.com and on YouTube. Just search for Theo Jansen. According to a news article I read (http://www.eurekamagazine.co.uk/article /13685/Walking-structures-are-no-pipe-dr eam.aspx) He has elected not to patent these inventions, which makes him a hero to me. All he asks if you are interested in them is that you purchase his book available on his web site. (http://www.strandbeest.com) Tags: animation, art, blender, chain, complex, design, ik, inverse, jansen, kinematics, kinetic, leg, linkage, robotics, sculpture, theo, tutorial, wheel 1 Downloads - Last from: http://downthisvideo.com/ (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	How Islamic Inventors Changed The World - Part 2 - [Contribution Of Muslims Series] By returnofthekhera PLEASE CLICK "HQ" TO VIEW A CLEARER VERSION OF THIS VIDEO. In this video I will go over five things invented by Muslims. Please watch Part 1 first and look out for parts 3 & 4. From coffee to cheques and the three-course meal, the Muslim world has given us many innovations that we take for granted in daily life. As a new exhibition opens, Paul Vallely nominates 20 of the most influential- and identifies the men of genius behind them 6 Distillation, the means of separating liquids through differences in their boiling points, was invented around the year 800 by Islam's foremost scientist, Jabir ibn Hayyan, who transformed alchemy into chemistry, inventing many of the basic processes and apparatus still in use today - liquefaction, crystallisation, distillation, purification, oxidisation, evaporation and filtration. As well as discovering sulphuric and nitric acid, he invented the alembic still, giving the world intense rosewater and other perfumes and alcoholic spirits (although drinking them is haram, or forbidden, in Islam). Ibn Hayyan emphasised systematic experimentation and was the founder of modern chemistry. 7 The crank-shaft is a device which translates rotary into linear motion and is central to much of the machinery in the modern world, not least the internal combustion engine. One of the most important mechanical inventions in the history of humankind, it was created by an ingenious Muslim engineer called al-Jazari to raise water for irrigation. His 1206 Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices shows he also invented or refined the use of valves and pistons, devised some of the first mechanical clocks driven by water and weights, and was the father of robotics. Among his 50 other inventions was the combination lock. 8 Quilting is a method of sewing or tying two layers of cloth with a layer of insulating material in between. It is not clear whether it was invented in the Muslim world or whether it was imported there from India or China. But it certainly came to the West via the Crusaders. They saw it used by Saracen warriors, who wore straw-filled quilted canvas shirts instead of armour. As well as a form of protection, it proved an effective guard against the chafing of the Crusaders' metal armour and was an effective form of insulation - so much so that it became a cottage industry back home in colder climates such as Britain and Holland. 9 The pointed arch so characteristic of Europe's Gothic cathedrals was an invention borrowed from Islamic architecture. It was much stronger than the rounded arch used by the Romans and Normans, thus allowing the building of bigger, higher, more complex and grander buildings. Other borrowings from Muslim genius included ribbed vaulting, rose windows and dome-building techniques. Europe's castles were also adapted to copy the Islamic world's - with arrow slits, battlements, a barbican and parapets. Square towers and keeps gave way to more easily defended round ones. Henry V's castle architect was a Muslim. 10 Many modern surgical instruments are of exactly the same design as those devised in the 10th century by a Muslim surgeon called al-Zahrawi. His scalpels, bone saws, forceps, fine scissors for eye surgery and many of the 200 instruments he devised are recognisable to a modern surgeon. It was he who discovered that catgut used for internal stitches dissolves away naturally (a discovery he made when his monkey ate his lute strings) and that it can be also used to make medicine capsules. In the 13th century, another Muslim medic named Ibn Nafis described the circulation of the blood, 300 years before William Harvey discovered it. Muslims doctors also invented anaesthetics of opium and alcohol mixes and developed hollow needles to suck cataracts from eyes in a technique still used today. Check out http://www.independent.co.uk/news/sci... for the article. Please rate, comment and subscribe! Look out for part 3 insha'Allah! returnofthekhera Tags: allah, arch, architecture, chemistry, contribution, crank, east, instruments, islam, islam's, lock, middle, muhammad, pb..., quilting, robotics, shaft, surgical 1 Downloads - Last from: http://downthisvideo.com/ (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Robot Wars Lightning v Gravity Heat D final By Calvertfilm Dutch heat finalist Gravity had flipped several robots, including 13 Black out of the arena. Lightning had beaten Thor in the previous round. Now Lightning from Essex faced up against one of the best flippers ever seen. But Lightning had great control and was low to the ground. Who would win? How would the House robots do? (Spoiler alert) Little did team Lightning know but the robot had a flat tyre (it needs solid tyres). Notice at the start when it goes to drive forward, and turns sideways as one side drags. So Lightning had control issues. Would the self-righter work? In the end a wire fell off the other motor, and so it had no drive. Gravity decided to take on the House robots and flipped Dead Metal for the first time ever. It went on in the next round to flip Dantomkia out of the arena in 6 seconds - a new record. In the next round Tornado beat Gravity up. Tornado was beaten by Lightning once in a live event, so a nice little triangle there. Lightning made the last 32, and would have been seeded the following year, if the series had continued. This was series 7, the final one. Content owner Sunset & Vine. Tags: c..., calvert, calvertfilm, craig, dead, fighting, fights, flips, gravity, heat, heavyweight, jayne, laurie, lightning, metal, middlemass, robot, robotics, wars 1 Downloads - Last from: http://downthisvideo.com/ (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Star Wars Tech pt 7 By DarthHues Science has come a long way - but still has farther to go Tags: ..., darth, force, fusion, ion, jedi, lightsaber, mace, maul, plasma, prosthetics, robotics, sidious, sith, star, tech, technical, technology, vader, wars, yoda 1 Downloads - Last from: http://downthisvideo.com/tag/percussion (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Star Wars Tech pt 6 By DarthHues Science has come a long way - but still has farther to go Tags: ..., darth, force, fusion, ion, jedi, lightsaber, mace, maul, plasma, prosthetics, robotics, sidious, sith, star, tech, technical, technology, vader, wars, yoda 1 Downloads - Last from: http://downthisvideo.com/tag/percussion (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Lecture - 1 Introduction to Robotics By nptelhrd Lecture Series on Robotics by Prof. C. Amarnath, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Bombay. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.iitm.ac.in Tags: introduction, robotics, to 2 Downloads - Last from: http://downthisvideo.com/ (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Star Wars Tech pt 5 By DarthHues Science has come a long way - but still has farther to go Tags: ..., darth, force, fusion, ion, jedi, lightsaber, mace, maul, plasma, prosthetics, robotics, sidious, sith, star, tech, technical, technology, vader, wars, yoda 2 Downloads - Last from: http://downthisvideo.com/tag/percussion (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Star Wars Tech pt 4 By DarthHues Science has come a long way - but still has farther to go Tags: ..., darth, force, fusion, ion, jedi, lightsaber, mace, maul, plasma, prosthetics, robotics, sidious, sith, star, tech, technical, technology, vader, wars, yoda 1 Downloads - Last from: http://downthisvideo.com/tag/percussion (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Star Wars Tech pt 3 By DarthHues Science has come a long way - but still has farther to go Tags: ..., darth, force, fusion, ion, jedi, lightsaber, mace, maul, plasma, prosthetics, robotics, sidious, sith, star, tech, technical, technology, vader, wars, yoda 1 Downloads - Last from: http://downthisvideo.com/tag/percussion (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Star Wars Tech pt 2 By DarthHues Science has come a long way - but still has farther to go Tags: ..., darth, force, fusion, ion, jedi, lightsaber, mace, maul, plasma, prosthetics, robotics, sidious, sith, star, tech, technical, technology, vader, wars, yoda 2 Downloads - Last from: http://downthisvideo.com/tag/percussion (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Star Wars Tech pt 1 By DarthHues Science has come a long way - but still has farther to go Tags: ..., darth, force, fusion, ion, jedi, lightsaber, mace, maul, plasma, prosthetics, robotics, sidious, sith, star, tech, technical, technology, vader, wars, yoda 1 Downloads - Last from: http://downthisvideo.com/tag/percussion (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Robot Sigue Lineas por Visión Artificial By mifulapirus This robot is just tracking a line using a very simple Computer Vision System. http://www.TupperBot.es Tags: angel, artificial, computer, de, follower, hernandez, line, lineas, louis, mif, robot, robotica, robotics, saint, seguidor, slu, tupperbot, university, vision 1 Downloads - Last from: http://www.tupperbot.es/2009/02/vision-artificial-robot-siguelineas-01/ (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	iDriver - iPhone remote controlled car By Appirion iDriver is an iPhone application to remote control a car. Go to http://www.spiritofberlin.eu for more information on "Spirit of Berlin", a completely autonomous vehicle by the Freie Universität Berlin. It is equipped with various sensors and a drive-by-wire system for unmanned driving. iDriver is an addon to remote control the car with an iPhone. Powered by Appirion UG (http://www.appirion.com). Music: Yello - The Race Tags: appirion, berlin, best, car, control, ever, freie, idriver, iphone, remote, robot, robotics, universität, vehicle, video 2 Downloads - Last from: http://downthisvideo.com/tag/video (Your Blog here!)