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Balls and Turntables

An interesting video explaining the movement of a ball on a turntable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oM7hX3UUEU

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Humanoid Robots

There has been a LOT going on about humanoid robots with links to powerful AI computers in the last few months. Some of the advances are pretty amazing.

This is just a link that lists the top 10 companies involved, so gives a start point for any who wish to look further.

https://www.analyticsinsight.net/top-10-companies-in-the-vanguard-of-the-rise-of-humanoid-robots/?fbclid=IwAR3yIjnZ8hwv7U3wy2taro9IQlkIUZON_TJd07kBd46-Dk2HYJb8E4Vdw9s

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Super Conductors

This lecture could be of interest to some members:

https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/about/our-story/news-events/public-lecture-series/public-lecture-series-events/engineering-superconductivity-into-power-intensive-applications

Main part starts about 5 plus minutes in.

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Google Censorship?

When you tick "I’m not a Robot"

https://www.facebook.com/messenger_media/?thread_id=4346108258802562&attachment_id=1453183421824830&message_id=mid.%24gAA9wwy7r24KKJirZPWD9OS4l3ih_

And the subject of the post

Google is censoring it out already (their censoring has become VERY invasive lately)

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Robot Art

This is no longer new - about 35 years ago at AUT we had a robot come on stage and welcome a guest speaker, however to use AI to create paintings is an interesting step sideways.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD8QXIFNORw