Yay! Nasa has finally developed a robotic elephant trunk that can lift things, probe toilets, drag crap around, and yes, capture prey! [download video, 57 megs, mpeg format]
It's real name is the OctArm Continuum Manipulator, and its possibilities are endless. All Nasa has to do now is attach a few of these suckers to their talking robot head Eva, and then they'll really be onto something.
Hey, the elephant tendril video isn't working for me... and somebody has posted a bogus comment advertising an online casino up there, too!
Posted by: Jeff Simmermon | May 10, 2006 at 12:00 PM
Perhaps the robotic tendril could be taught to gamble at the best online casino. Any way we could get a clip of that? It would sure be a "cheering aspect" of my life!
Posted by: atonkin | May 10, 2006 at 03:01 PM
Yeah, the video doesn't work for me either... I can download it (it's not a dead link) but QuickTime doesn't "understand" it.
Posted by: Kenji Garland | May 10, 2006 at 05:45 PM