Snowboarding Roboticist Colin Angle Just Doesn't Have Time to Vacuum
Posted by NOVAscienceNOW_Motherboard on Thursday, Feb 04, 2010
Colin Angle’s a robot master with a penchant for archery and rock climbing who’s also known to pop a mean “backside ollie 360:”http://www.ehow.com/video_2360217_backside-360-snowboard.html on a snowboard. Once he can figure out how to design a robot that folds laundry, then he’ll probably have time to add ice-carving or jazz clarinet to his list.
Here he takes some questions, and describes why robots still need to learn to do things like, well, appreciate jazz or ice carving. And he answers more questions at Secret Life of Scientists
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