What an Astronaut's Camera Sees at Night. Monopoly hotels - room details. Robots at Work and Play - In Focus. Advancements in robotics are continually taking place in the fields of space exploration, health care, public safety, entertainment, defense, and more. These machines -- some fully autonomous, some requiring human input -- extend our grasp, enhance our capabilities, and travel as our surrogates to places too dangerous for us to go. NASA currently has dozens of robotic missions underway, with satellites now in orbit around our moon and four planets -- and two more on the way to Ceres and Pluto. Gathered here are recent images of robotic technology at the beginning of the 21st century. [37 photos] Use j/k keys or ←/→ to navigate Choose: Resembling a headless horse, a robotic Legged Squad Support System (LS3) developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency navigates terrain during a demonstration at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall, Fort Myer, Virginia, on September 10, 2012.
A free-swimming robot submarine maneuvers beneath sea ice in Eastern Antarctica. U.S. U.S. La Isla House / Llosa Cortegana Architects. Architects: Llosa Cortegana Arquitectos Location: Lima, Peru Project Year: 2011 Project Area: 269.65 sqm Photographs: Courtesy of Llosa Cortegana Architects In recent years the growth of the housing urbanizations in the South of Lima, is creating locations for the housing project a bit afield from the sea, so now houses need to recreate the living on the beach from other scenarios. This project responds to the challenge of living by the sea but surrounded by a tree landscape, and having an internal and external life that wouldn’t feel the lack of having a permanent view to the sea. Thus, the idea developed in the course of the design process was to have amplitude in the interior of the house, created from the flexibility of the social space according to the use and family interactions in the day to day.
The house is lived in its interior, but constantly connected to the green landscape that surrounds it. The Pool Shophouse / FARM. Architects: FARM Location: Geylang, Singapore Design Team: Kurjanto Slamet, Tiah Nan Chyuan, Lee Hui Lian Project Year: 2012 Photographs: Jeremy San Project Area: 366.94 sqm Design Consultants: FARM in collaboration with KD Architects The Lorong 24A Shophouse Series was conceived as a collection of architectural experiments and showpiece for each architect. FARM, in collaboration with KD architects were thrilled to be invited as one of the 7 studios involved. The conversation with the existing shophouse started with the intention to read the ‘new’ not as a ‘rear extension’ but as an ‘insertion’.
We wanted to explore the spatial opportunities within such a configuration while heightening a unique experience inherent within the spatial structure of a shophouse. The monolithic lap pool on the first storey emphasizes the linear typology of the space, as it guides one’s experience from the front to the rear. Why Nikola Tesla was the greatest geek who ever lived. Additional notes from the author: If you want to learn more about Tesla, I highly recommend reading Tesla: Man Out of Time Also, this Badass of the week by Ben Thompson is what originally inspired me to write a comic about Tesla. Ben's also got a book out which is packed full of awesome. There's an old movie from the 80s on Netflix Instant Queue right now about Tesla: The Secret of Nikola Tesla. It's corny and full of bad acting, but it paints a fairly accurate depiction of his life.
The drunk history of Tesla is quite awesome, too. Browse Board Games.