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CMU Robot Tackles An Important Task

Meet HERB (Home Exploring Robotic Butler) who was developed at Carnegie Mellon’s Personal Robotics Lab. HERB has finally tackled an important and difficult problem – how to separate an Oreo Cookie. Thanks to Chris Briem @ NullSpace for sharing this video. Here are a whole bunch of articles (with some humous titles) about HERB and oreo cookies  … Sure, Give That Robot A Knife: Three More Oreo Separator Machines (uproxx.com) HERB the robot butler takes part in Oreo cookie challenge (gizmag.com) Carnegie Mellon’s HERB Masters Critical Oreo Separation Task (33rdsquare.com) HERB the Robot Separates Oreo Cookie Before Turning on His… Read the rest

Pittsburgh Signs Project on BoingBoing & Book Giveaway

The Pittsburgh Signs project photos and book are featured on the BoingBoing today - "Pittsburgh Signs Project: appreciation of the glorious signage of Pittsburgh." BoingBoing is a popular blog, that originally started as a zine in 1988, that covers interesting information from around the web.

The Food Network Stops at The Waffle Shop TONIGHT!

Worlds Weirdest Restaurants, a new show that is being taped for the Food Network Canada, will be at the Waffle Shop tonight (Friday, June 10, 2011) from 10pm-3am.  The public is invited to stop by for waffles and to watch the show.  Can’t make it East Liberty – as always you can watch the Waffle Shop streaming live at WaffleShop.org. Worlds Weirdest Restaurants will be hosted by Bob Blumer – he currently hosts the show Glutton for Punishment. WWR’s host Bob Blumer will spend the evening cooking, serving, and participating in a packed night of interactive talk shows. The general… Read the rest

From Earth Day to Easter Eggs – A Weekend of Spring Festivals

It is shaping up to be a super spring weekend in Pittsburgh.  We know that Friday is a hockey night in this town – but here are some things to keep you busy until game #3.  You can listen to IheartPGH chat live with Jim and Randy on WDVE 102.5 FM most Friday mornings at 6:45 am. The Tech Fair CMU now calls this Spring Carnival – but I have always refered to this as the tech fair April 14-16 @ Carnegie Mellon University Amazing carnival games, student buggy races and live music Check out the live webcams of the… Read the rest

Author of Stuff White People Like to Give Lecture at CMU

Chritian Lander, author of the widely popular blog and book Stuff White People Like will be giving a free talk at CMU on Tuesday. If you haven’t checked it out before – Stuff White People Like – is a list of things that has been called the preppie handbook for today’s generation.  It is fascinating and often totally hilarious. I think this will be an interesting talk to hear about how a blog became so successful so quickly. Here is a clip of Christian on Lopez Tonight: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19_PSyA3JUM[/youtube] Christian Lander Author of Stuff White People Like will Speak at Carnegie… Read the rest

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