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Robbie's Wild Ride

ercoerco Posts: 20,256
edited 2012-09-19 21:22 in Robotics
Yet another balloon to the edge of space video, this one carrying Robbie the Robot. Nice black space/sun background right before the balloon pops at ~4:10.

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  • Martin_HMartin_H Posts: 4,051
    edited 2012-09-19 17:32
    Neat video.

    I know this is picky, but the robot is a mash up of Forbidden Planet and Lost in Space. The head is distinctly Robbie like, but the arms and grippers look like B9's.
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,256
    edited 2012-09-19 20:43
    Martin_H wrote: »

    I know this is picky, but the robot is a mash up of Forbidden Planet and Lost in Space. The head is distinctly Robbie like, but the arms and grippers look like B9's.

    Sure they're similar, same designer Bob Kinoshita:

    http://robots.net/article/1189.html
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2012-09-19 21:22
    That's one of the better near-space balloon videos I've seen. The camera lens suffered quite a bit of barrel distortion, though, and the edits were more than a little annoying. I would have been much happier to sit through the full, unedited video than to suffer the constant scene cuts. But, all-in-all, it was nicely done.

    -Phil
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