Worlds Most Advanced 3D Printed Robotic Hand

World’s Most Advanced 3D Printed Robotic Hand

The guys from OpenBionics presented their latest 3D printed robotic hand at CES 2015, worn by Dan who was born without a right hand. Most impressive.

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Life goals: share a name with an incredible cartoonist and work with octopuses. 

(photos by Bill Watterson and an octopus)

a while back, ghostbong bought a very cheap, very used Roomba from craigslist.  ”so, you’re going to ‘hack’ this, right?” said the man at the parking lot rendezvous.  but we just wanted a vacuum.  since then, the addition of the word “robot” to our casual, every-day lexicon is continually jarring, as if even living in the future will give you future-shock.

doing maintenance on the robot.  the robot is stuck on a cord.  the robot ate a sock.  the robot ran out of power before it got back to its charging station.  the robot knocked something over.  it doesn’t help that the Roomba programmers saw fit to outfit the little thing with a series of Artoo-like MIDI scales and honks, to convey the mood of its message: docking successfully produces a tiny fanfare, and getting its brushes jammed on a foreign object makes it cry out in sad distress. do i verbally reassure the robot when i pull a wad of cat hair and bread bag tabs out of its works and set it back down on the floor? you bet i do.

but the larger point is that it is now possible no for me to say (or type) out loud and without irony, sarcasm, or any kind of fictitiousness: “the robot knocked over the kitten’s water dish >:I “

the future is here, and it is me on my knees on the floor yanking hairballs out of a domestic droid while it softly boops at me

Budgie raaaaptooorrrss.  Another daily doodle.  I did say that there’s like a 50% chance of budgies, right?

I’m finally done with my new little comic project! This is ‘Arbor’.It’s completely painted in gouache! You can pre-order a physical copy over here. (I will also be selling it in Leipzig next month) You can find lots of wips here.

Attn: defilerwyrm, messier51 and yellow-turtle

I laughed so hard I fell off my chair. (x)