Earlier I had posted a few lines in regards to ASIMO’s conduction of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra performing “Impossible Dream”. Today I received an email from a good friend of mine notifying me that the video for the performance has just been released and it’s currently available on blip.tv. So, here it is, and it’s profoundly cute. =D Enjoy!
Well apparently his majesty the royal cuteness Honda’s ASIMO robot is planning on mesmerizing the audience by conducting the Detroit Symphony Orchestra performing “Impossible Dream”. This is going to be the opening for cellist Yo-Yo Ma’s performance. Read the whole story here. Cool ha? =) I have been tracking the improvements and basically the process of “growing up” of this little creature from the start, as he’s pretty much the “Dream Come True” of Robotics enthusiasts such as myself. And I even had him as the topic for the papers for a couple of my engineering design related courses. Now I wonder if the videos for this performance are going to show up on YouTube, cause I have to say, I so badly want to see this! =D
OH….MY…GOODNESS….Just have a look @ this! The cutest little Robot ever! Pretty natural moves too. Very impressive indeed! “We’ve all been waiting to finally own a True Walking Humanoid Robot, Kyosho of Japan will release MANOI, the “Ready-Made” Robot (that’s right; no assembly required) for about $1600. Wait til you see him Stand on One Leg and Do the “Wing Wave”…..you’ll want one too!!” And yeah, I DO want one too! 😛 read more | digg story
I) I got this pretty kool article yesterday in my RSS reader…it’z from Robots.net. Apparently there’z this new robot that can tell the difference between a mirror image of itself, and another robot looking exactly like it. It is said that this breakthrough can lead to creation of robots that are capable of emotion. Interesting eh? Somehow I can’t stop thinking about this….
II) Last night I started up on Greek grammar. [So far I know the alphabet, I’ve developed an understanding of the pronunciations and how things are supposed to sound like, and I know a bunch of words and short sentences.] U know what’s interesting? The grammar actually seems to be not so difficult. Then again this could be only the beginning….. I’m also having so much fun with the Greek vocabulary. I don’t know how to put this in words…things “sound nice” in Greek! Also a lot of Greek words seem to have found their way into other languages, including Spanish and Persian. [In case of Persian I still don’t quite know which one has found its way into the other, although I’ve been doing a lot of “history” homework!] As a result, a lot of these new words are not so new to me!
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