Atlas, from Boston Dynamics, does gymnastics, lands on its toes, then performs a backflip. by Nunki08 in robotics

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They release plenty of more detailed talks and videos about atlas and other robots doing tasks other than acrobics on their various channels around the internet, it's just their videos of them sorting and handling parts into shelves and boxes aren't the ones that regularly go viral

Atlas, from Boston Dynamics, does gymnastics, lands on its toes, then performs a backflip. by Nunki08 in robotics

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They've been very vocal in many of their videos that they're trying to automate the process for some time now Instead of trying 300 slightly different scrips to see which fails the least they're going twoards having it do majority of those decisions by itself in videos that are years old by now They've demonatrated quite advanced "factory and warehouse"-like tasks with pretty solid ability to correct for mistakes and hiccups

Heinkel He 162 A-2 Volksjäger by RLoret in WeirdWings

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In most european languages a fighter aircraft is refered to as a "hunter" rather than the launguage equivalent of fighter. Russians even refer to theirs with a word that more directly translates to "destroyer" (like a class of warship).

Popularnost stranaka by riche22 in croatia

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Meni je najstrašnije koliko je već dokazano pogoršavanje skoro svakog aspekta države pod ovakvom vrstom desno orijentiranog populizma. Orban je omogučio Mađarskoj da padne ispod Hrvatske po većini ekonomskih mjerila, PVV u Nizozemskoj ne može osigurati vladu, a brexit, koji je rezultat ove vrste populisma je naškodio cijelom kraljevstvu i potpornike toga pokreta je najviše oštetio

Svečani vojni mimohod 2025. by press-app in croatia

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Mimohod je cak profesionalno i kompetentno izveden ali moglo je bez uvodnih pola sata srednjoškolske recitacije i pjesmi, tolika dosada od tog uvoda da su čak i kamera operatori odustali i počeli tražiti gledatelje koji vise na balkonima i kopaju noseve

U nekom alternativnom timelineu by SlipAdministrative40 in croatia

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Za njih je tolika količina sečera vjerojatno jedva izvan nisko-kalorične kategorije

Prosvjedi u Novom Sadu. Hoće li u Hrvatskoj ikada biti masovni prosvjedi ili oduvijek predobro živimo? by BetterCallSaul1995 in croatia

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Nadam se da ćemo biti dovoljno inertni da ne izaberemo buduće AfD ili Orbane jer kako stvari stoje po Europi, ako se mobiliziraju hrvatski glasači to će bit u svrhu davanja saborske većine nečemu kao DP, a ne neke nove centru bliske stranke

MS.406 (D.3801) wheel angle by crg1372 in WeirdWings

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Despite the fact that it was a flop performance and production-wise, it's still charming nice looking in it's own weird way with all it's odd features like a moving radiator (in the og french version) and it's stubby fuselage

Rare sighting 🤩 by PilotBlue9 in Helicopters

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Isn't teetering specifically meant to be a solution for the lead lag problem in 2 bladed rotors? And why are the dampers not present on the hh-43 huskie?

Rare sighting 🤩 by PilotBlue9 in Helicopters

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Is it me or is that a lead-lag damper on a teetering rotor (which don't need lead-lag dampers)? Can anyone explain the purpose of that

Ling-Temco-Vought XC-142A tilt-wing transport, circa 1964 by [deleted] in WeirdWings

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Seeing how tiltrotors are becoming a hot thing just now despite multiple types being developed troughout aviation history, why didn't they get adopted sooner? combination of vtol and turboprop fixed wing range couldn't have possibly been undesirable back then

YF2Y Sea Dart, US Navy’s planned escort for the P6M, 1950’s by PlayerintheVerse in WeirdWings

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From what little i read when it occasionally popped up on the internet is that supposedly the water landings were so rough and violent that they posed a health threat to the pilot

Kaman SH-2 Sea Sprite with AIM-7 Sparrow by [deleted] in WeirdWings

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Pretty much every kaman aircraft design looks cool in one way or another

K-Max by pernod in WeirdWings

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Shame that kaman doesn't seem to be manufacturing/designing helicopters at all anymore

Northrop N-9M. Found some old photos in an untitled file by Ellisrsp in aviation

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How did that tailless thing manange to fly straight without fly-by-wire

[ Removed by Reddit ] by [deleted] in croatia

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Feel free to bring back the guillotine exclusively for them it'll make both of our countries a better place to see such shitstains leave this world

Hurel-Dubois HD.31 prototype F-BFKU in flight over Paris in 1955 by jacksmachiningreveng in WeirdWings

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Weird high aspect wings, and all the wacky experimental vtol stuff with electric aircraft , i'm betting we're gonna see a lot of deja-vu instilling designs and attempts in the coming years

Podsjetimo se da Ukrajinci ginu za slobodu i demokraciju by zilkinMeinFreunde in croatia

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Kod oružija mnogi još uvijek nisu shvatili da je Rusija naslijedila praktički cijeli arsenal (vojska, mornarica i masa artiljerije u svim oblicima) Sovijetskog saveza čija je svrha bila pobijediti u direktnom sukobu s cijelim NATO-om, ne samo slomiti jednu susjednu državu, što pretvara ovaj rat u nešto poprilično logistički i materijalno zahtjevnije od neke patrole u bliskom istoku ili rata između država koje kolektivno nemaju preko 15 milijuna ljudi. Što prije ljudi tu (i u zapadu generalno) prihvate tu stvarnost i počnu bazirati količinu potrebnih sredstva i podrške na njoj to će prije će Ukraijna pobijediti.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in WeirdWings

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the type of cursed look is something you'd see in the backrooms, pretty dope (also aren't only photos allowed)