The experience was a bit bewildering at first, since the studio is a laboratory where the artist has more than a dozen «experiments» going simultaneously: a giant firefly contraption takes up a swing - set zone; materials for an upcoming performance are laid out on every surface of the seating and sofa zone; fish tanks surround a computer zone and provide the staging ground for an oceanic corral project; dozens
of human arm forms, cast in a Black Power salute and cast in gold, are lined up along a wall, in preparation for a huge installation in Washington, D.C. this fall; a 3 - D printer is on pause as it creates Lilliputian figures for who - knows - what; and everywhere are various staging grounds of plastic models which will eventually be sprayed in gold and mounted on pins, to create Kaino's now - signature six - foot - tall, glittering gold pin drawings that suggest atomized worlds.
That scenario is a lot like imagining the evolution
of a human arm that's been removed from the body, says John Sutherland, an author of the study.
Enter the Modular Prosthetic Limb (MPL), a bionic limb that closely approximates the form and agility
of a human arm and hand.
In this way, the actuators act like the opposing bicep and tricep muscles that control movements
of the human arm.
I was involved in a project that investigated the modulation
of human arm stiffness with the presence of external perturbations.
For example, «woodpeckerlike habits» are seen in lemurs and extinct marsupials, while the mechanics of an octopus» tentacles are far closer to
those of a human arm than we might expect, and even their suckers can operate rather like hands.
«Bat wings are highly articulated, with wing skeletons very similar to
those of human arms and hands,» says Julian Colorado at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain.
Half robot, half garment, it's designed to amplify the strength and agility
of human arms while doing dangerous or difficult tasks.
Not exact matches
At a demonstration staged at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona earlier this year, for example, a robotic
arm was given
human - like reflexes through the deployment
of 5G technology.
The Campaign Against
Arms Trade (CAAT) is among a broad range
of human rights groups planning to protest at Downing Street on Wednesday afternoon.
For midsize businesses (those with more than 50 employees and less than 1,000) getting their
arms around their total cost
of ownership (TCO) in
human resources — what they are actually spending on employees and the cost
of managing them — can be easily overlooked.
First, there was that lone, cranelike
arm, an appealingly simple approach, and one that followed another
of Brooks's maxims: Robots should not be humanoid just for the sake
of making them look like
humans.
The ceremony was held at Newfoundland's World Peace and Unification Sanctuary, where Rev. Sean Moon prayed for «a kingdom
of peace police and peace militia where the citizens, through the right given to them by almighty God to keep and bear
arms, will be able to protect one another and protect
human flourishing.»
«The job
of assembly, which may come naturally to
humans, has to be broken down into different steps, such as identifying where the different chair parts are, the force required to grip the parts, and making sure the robotic
arms move without colliding into each other,» Assistant Professor Pham Quang Cuong said.
«Society has to be cleansed
of corruption, extortion, illegal drugs and
arms smuggling,
of the trafficking
of human beings, so many
of whom are children reduced to slavery.»
This capture
of international sales is due to Beijing's geopolitical ambitions, along with a willingness to sell
arms to nations that other countries may not feel comfortable dealing with — sanctioned states and
human rights abusers such as Iran, Angola, and Sudan.
Boston Dynamics has produced a number
of robots that mimic
human and animal movement, including Atlas, a humanoid model that co-ordinates motion and balance using its
arms and legs and can pick itself up off the ground when knocked over.
In the project, which will be carried out by Alphabet's research
arm X,
human operators will fly drones carrying cargo beyond their field
of vision.
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«They've created the attention economy and are now engaged in a full - blown
arms race to capture and retain
human attention, including the attention
of kids,» said former Google design ethicist Tristan Harris.
If
human life is only a part
of the cosmos, then it exists for the sake
of the cosmos — as surely as an
arm functions for the sake
of the whole body.
When Phil and Diane Comer held their firstborn infant in their
arms, the truth pressed on their shoulders like the weight
of the world: This is a person, a
human — we hold the potential to hurt him, to damage him, to turn him away from God.
Let me wind up with the need for NGO Ombudsmen
armed with legal powers to take action wherever
human rights are vulnerable and violated and also to recommend cancellation
of treaties entered into with oblique motives by suspect national leaders.
The Cross and the passion
of Christ impart inspiration to millennia
of generations to hold aloft the banner
of human rights, be the enemy insidious, imperialist, intimidatorily
armed or asuric avatar talking double - speak and robbing the neighbour subtly or savagely.
One day I entered an isolation unit to find a wretched shell
of a
human being — legs and
arms chewed up by gangrene, sweat pouring out
of a shaking, stinking body.
«We need to continue exposing Iran's violations
of Saeed's
human rights until my husband is safely back in my
arms,» the statement quoted her as saying.
With a mixture
of ape and
human features — including long dangling
arms but pelvic, spine, foot, and leg bones suited to walking upright — slender Lucy stood three and a half feet (107 centimeters) tall.
The bible is the greatest study
of human nature ever written and demonstrates repeatedly why the people need to be
armed.
Science and research, and the vast financial resources
of the major countries, can be turned from the
arms race to solving basic
human problems.
Human trafficking is tied with
arms dealing as the second - largest criminal enterprise in the world, after drug dealing, according to the U.S. Department
of Health and
Human Services.
He called them evidence
of God's «alien work,» which brought Luther the
human being to his limits; he believed that only there, in experiencing those limits, could he be convinced to throw himself into the
arms of the One he otherwise refused to trust.
«We have no government
armed in power capable
of contending in
human passions unbridled by morality and religion... Our Consti - tution was made only for a moral and religious people.
I taught Ephraim to walk; I took them in my
arms...; with
human bonds I drew them, with cords
of love How shall I give you up, Ephraim; how shall I let you go, Israel?
The mark
of the beast is spiritual, and identical to the pledged
of allegiance to the flag, because worshipping doesn't come from a chip, or any technology device, although we are surrounded by
human devices... The name
of the beast is going to be written in the heart, or in the mind on those who worship the beast, because worshipping is
of the heart, or
of the mind... When the Germans used their right hand to pledge allegiance to the flag, or to Hitler, there was no physical mark in the right hand, or forehead
of the German pledger, because the pledge
of allegiance to the flag, or to Hitler, was written in the heart, or in the mind
of the German pledger... When the US uses their right hand to pledge allegiance to the flag, there is no physical mark in the right hand, or on the forehead
of the pledger, because the pledge
of allegiance to the flag, is written in the heart, or in the mind
of the pledger... The devil uses Romans 13 to deceive those who are pledging allegiance to the flag, because they do not believe what God said in Ex.20: 1 - 5, and De.4: 15 - 19... When a person pledges allegiance to a man, or to a flag, or to a nation, they are heading for destruction, because God said; «cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and make flesh his
arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD Jer.17: 5 KJV... Whatever happened to the Germans who trusted in Hitler, or on their military power?
Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh,
arm yourselves also with the same intention (for whoever has suffered in the flesh has finished with sin), so as to live for the rest
of your earthly life no longer by
human desires but by the will
of God.
The unique factor about the present situation is that the vast
human potentiality for destructiveness (in blocked creativity) is now
armed with fiendish instruments
of mass annihilation.
It is estimated that during this period, in the midst
of the
human catastrophes mentioned above, 40 billion dollars worth
of arms and ammunition was poured into Afghanistan, primarily by the Soviet Union and the USA.
If what you interpret Paul as saying is that before creating all the myriad galaxies and star systems God decided that They would put some
humans on the third planet from an insignificant star on a little
arm of a middling galaxy and that the first hominids chosen role would be to perform pretty much to spec and do something silly and rebellious (arguably without sufficient information as to consequences for themselves and their off spring, oh, and for serpents) and cause affront to the tripartite godhead warranting separation
of Gods grace from all their offspring; then we are left with people being chosen from way back before the Big Bang to do some terrible things like killing babies or betraying Jesus who was chosen on the same non date (time didn't exist before creation) to die in a fairly nasty fashion and thereby appease the righteous wrath
of himself and his fellow Trinitarians by paying a penalty as a substitute for all future sins (
of believers?)
Does the entangling
of arms and legs and the exchange
of bodily fluids scratch the
human itch for intimate connection?
As an American Muslim who has worked overseas for the sake
of peace, who has siblings (also Muslim) serving in the American
Armed Forces, and who doesn't embrace ignorance, intolerance, or blind hatred from any race, religion, or creed, I feel that some
of you are missing the mark as fellow
human beings.
mr. hawking., i moved my mouse all aver the figure... what i saw it looked like a baby
human, also somekind
of red
arm just appeard on one
of the sides.
The soldier is sacred, made in the image
of God, and I can not think what it does to a person to commit acts
of war, to lift up
arms against another, to kill another
human being.
«Perhaps one
of the main challenges
of living faithfully before God as a gay Christian is to believe, really believe, that God in Christ can make up for our sacrifice
of homosexual partnership not simply with his own desire and yearning for us but with his desire and yearning mediated to us through the
human faces and
arms of those who are our fellow believers.»
I get where you are coming from though, I read about metal axe heads floating on water, shadows moving while the sun is not, men running faster than horses and fifty
armed soldiers falling dead when they come against one
of Gods prophets, it goes on and on, an outrageous affront to any
human intelligence, I mean come on!!
The
arms race represents a complex interweaving
of human anxiety and nationalistic idolatry.
Any oaf who is so presumptuous as to wrap his
arm around God in his bid for the local throne is being profoundly contemptuous
of his fellow
humans.
Armed with science, sociology and pluralistic awareness, liberals sometimes seem to offer rational reasons why evangelicals should take less seriously their talk about God's self - revelation on behalf
of a lost
human world.
It is significant, for example, that John Adams, during his first year as our first vice-president under the new liberal constitutional regime, said, «We have no government
armed with power capable
of contending with
human passions unbridled by morality and religion.
The classical Christian synthesis
of the power
of God and the love
of God — forged in those formative years
of contact with Greek philosophy, hammered out by Augustine and Aquinas and other giants
of Christian thought, fractured by the critiques
of Dostoyevsky and Nietzsche and their comrades in intellectual
arms — was smashed to pieces by the overwhelming
human devastation that was the Holocaust.
Berrigan's complaint, in short, is that the reestablishment
of a Jewish state (a justifiable goal) has come at a tremendous cost in
human suffering,
armed violence and moral decay; that the course
of the new state has been a betrayal
of everything the term «Israel» has stood for — justice, compassion, succoring the humiliated and injured; that a «settler state» was established through the expropriation
of the people
of the land, followed by an imperialist venture, based on the subjugation and exploitation
of the conquered; and that, to add moral insult to physical and spiritual injury, the spokesmen
of and for the state claim for it a special virtue and glorious achievement which may not be criticized.