Himatic – robotic sculptures

http://www.andreapetrachi.com/buzzbox_files/shapeimage_4.jpgAndrea Petrachi a.k.a. Himatic creates his robotic sculptures from things most of people simply throw away.

his work is based on the assembly of ordinary objects, broken electronics,recycled materials and old toys.

Himatic see his work as a symbol of our out-of-control desire to buy things. At the same time, his work raise issues about the human desire to challenge nature through technology.

Andrea Petrachi was born in Lecce – italy in 1975,and began disassembling anything very soon.

He’s Actually based in Milan,where he work as a video editor for RAI TV.

(taken from http://www.andreapetrachi.com)

Robot destroyed during testrun of the LHC

Today the LHC performed one of its atomic collision test. The goal was to validate the results of the last test run. During this test the  Large Hadron Collider produced a never seen amount of energy. Therefore  many skeptics said that the results where totally wrong because of the uncertainty principle. So this last test run tried to validated the results by using subatomic robots inside of the LHC to observe the collision and measuring the energy directly instead of indirect.

The approach failed by destroying the robots at four o’clock  and one minute this afternoon. One of the robots collided with the atom instead the other proton. Its remains where found 4,1 kilometer outer the the two thousand and tenth epipolar collider shield.

For a detailed report on this robotic accident take a look here.

Adhesive foil/cover for Lego Mindstorms NXT available

Ever wanted to individualize your NXT a bit more?

Now you can buy the Roberta adhesive foils for Lego Mindstorms NXT (design by Ashley A. Green) at Technik LPE and coulourise your NXT the way you want. The foils are wipeable, heavy-duty and removable.

See:
http://roberta-home.de/de/aktuelles/|neu|-roberta-nxt-klebefolie

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