weirdmachines

This huge spider appeared last night at a building in Liverpool. People suffering from Arachnophobia should better stay at home for a few weeks, since this machine will walk the city soon for an exhibit. “La Princess” has been built by French company “La Machine”, weighs 37 tons and is 15 meters long.
Apparently, it is controlled by 12 people, but you never know…

Professor Ng and his students have developed a technique to teach model helicopters acrobatic flight manoevers by “watching” an expert pilot fly. The news can already be found here. Watching does not mean that the helicopter flies after his teacher, but that the remote control information together with motion data of the helicopter is recorded and then used as learning data for a computer steering the autonomous heli. Cool stuff.