{"id":126,"date":"2008-03-18T12:49:47","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T19:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.orbswarm.com\/2008\/03\/18\/yuris-night\/"},"modified":"2019-11-03T15:43:51","modified_gmt":"2019-11-03T22:43:51","slug":"yuris-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.orbswarm.com\/2008\/03\/18\/yuris-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Yuri’s Night"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Coreyfro:<\/p>\n

While NASA is still bragging about teleoperated robots such as DEXTRE, DARPA continues to push the boundaries on autonomous robotics.<\/a><\/p>\n

That’s because NASA nerds (or, well, two of us here at Ames, and technically, I’m a contractor) make autonomous robots for fun in our free time!<\/p>\n

Auto choreographing, music composing, and light show generating orbs of gleaming aluminum!<\/p>\n

Come see Orb Swarm<\/a> at Yuri’s Night!<\/p>\n

Legs? PFT! Legs are SOOOOO Precambrian era!<\/p>\n

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From Coreyfro: While NASA is still bragging about teleoperated robots such as DEXTRE, DARPA continues to push the boundaries on autonomous robotics. That’s because NASA nerds (or, well, two of us here at Ames, and technically, I’m a contractor) make autonomous robots for fun in our free time! Auto choreographing, music composing, and light show […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":145,"url":"http:\/\/blog.orbswarm.com\/2008\/04\/14\/yuris-night-rocked\/","url_meta":{"origin":126,"position":0},"title":"Yuri’s Night Rocked","date":"April 14, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"We brought the orbs out to Yuri's Night. People really liked them. 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