Welcome to the uncanny mogul: Bojan Nemec at the Jožef Stefan Institute in Slovenia developed this skiing robot.
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Susannah Breslin pointed me to Marilyn Minter 's latest video months ago, but I didn't get around to blogging 'til now. Green Pink Caviar is described as A lush and sensual voyeuristic hallucination. Filmed with macro lenses, the video was inspired by a photo shoot where Minter directed her m... More.
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"Skiing robot"?
Clearly a SnoBot..
/sorry.. I'll get me coat
In before it isn't a SnoBot ;p
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EqPwGkE8rY @1:10
Ya beat me to it, Johnny Cat.
And I as well!
The narrator reminds me of Prokhor Zakharov.
Wallace and Gromit's Grand Day Out! Except that was on cheese hills.
Awesome, when is somebody going to start up bot olympics?
I'm glad I'm not the only one.
Wait, is it April already?
Talk about your slippery slopes...
It makes me so happy that so many other people thought, "Wallace and Gromit!" just like me.
Hooray for Nick Park!
it's just a hop skip and a jump to a skiing cooker on your cheese holiday!
Great, there goes my plan to outlast the robot apocalypse in Alaska.
Skiing, So Easy A Robot Can Do It
http://www.sbgmag.com/team-blog/skiing-easy-robot-3402