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Changing people's behaviour through fun. Looks a bit naive, but if there are any ideas http://www.thefuntheory.com there's an ongoing competition until the 15th of Nov.

a pity that they don't show the rat brain also ... anything published available would also be nice ...

Scary... I liked the "Each time the robot has behaved differently" part though :)

Nice explanation of Python's internals.

Crazy.....

we have to get one of these flying pinguins!!! who knows more about this company? Tobias, these are the same ones that you had shown me I assume?

Biomimetics in a different sense: Check out the OTHER link

Biomimetics in a different sense: Check out the OTHER link

A robot that is afraid of things. Brilliant: Machines learn human weaknesses instead of human strengths...

Dario, Marek and Christos, please have a look at this - lookslike the implementation of a nice decentralised swarm control into autonomous helicopters - LS

[MaRu] Are you curious about the origin of images I put on my desktop wallpaper? This 2-hours (!) movie should help you understand what they are and where do they come from. Even if you're a biologist ;-) You can watch the trailer here: http://youtube.com

We must buy this game...... Vid: http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=on4wM4KBgUc&feature=relatedid

impressive for us non-physicists

the only downside is that you have to launch it before it can run... :)

Hmm.. but how would you make it such that it can stand up? Maybe launch it somehow forward?

I can imagine a system with 2 retractable support legs to stand it up and raise it a bit above the floor. Then make it run and retract the legs abruptly.

Also check out this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=V0FowbxEe3w. I like the "pay for wtf?" concept.

Here we go! AI for Mario has arrived. What is still missing is the Italian accent in his robo-voice though. To compensate for that, we have a lot of German accent in the Youtube-video. Make sure to check it out if you always liked the background music from the games. Putting the trolling aside, I honestly like the idea! There is still some way to go, but maybe we will watch and even pay to be able to see twitch-streams of self-ware bots one day?

I'm actually considering doing an twitch-bot channel. Why pay when you can cash in? Kind of lazy tho`

"The experiments involve an oil droplet that bounces along the surface of a liquid. The droplet gently sloshes the liquid with every bounce. At the same time, ripples from past bounces affect its course. The droplet's interaction with its own ripples, which form what's known as a pilot wave, causes it to exhibit behaviors previously thought to be peculiar to elementary particles - including behaviors seen as evidence that these particles are spread through space like waves, without any specific location, until they are measured." Pilot-wave theory reresurrected. Maybe something for the next "fundamental" :P physics RF?

And for the next 'Experimental Physics Stagiaire' position why not try to do "Unpredictable Tunneling of a Classical Wave-Particle Association" http://stilton.tnw.utwente.nl/people/eddi/Papers/PhysRevLett_TUNNEL.pdf, there are some rumors online that the results of Yves Couder Experiments can be reproduced with simple DIY vibrating tables! It is very funny to see the videos of the MIT's replication of this experiment (with lightening legends for those who are uncomfortable with the concepts involved https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF5iHQMjcsM)

Simulating the economic state of the Galaxy after the resistance has blown up the Death Stars. See the paper here: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.09054.pdf

Love this type of friday afternoon research questions. There is also a now famous scene in the movie Clerks discussing the loss of independent contractors lives as the Death Star was being build.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQdDRrcAOjA

That analysis is quite crappy and is easily demolished in the video's comments.

Serious stuff!! Trump made people do space stuff and Netflix makes a series out of it.