The skiing robot - crazy robot of the day number 2

While we're on robots - meet the... skiing robot. Is there anything these little androids can't do? Well yes I guess there a few things - love, make moral decisions etc.. but you can sure cross skiing off the list. In the past few months robotics scientists have made a skiing robot. The mechanical skier can race downhill and even make turns to pass between gates. Described as a laptop on skis, the Skibot has to use the special technique of carving to ski properly.



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