{"id":179,"date":"2014-01-10T10:06:28","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T18:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.magicalrobot.org\/BeingHuman\/?p=179"},"modified":"2022-03-09T23:15:50","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T07:15:50","slug":"tensegrity-robotics-goes-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magicalrobot.org\/BeingHuman\/2014\/01\/tensegrity-robotics-goes-viral","title":{"rendered":"Tensegrity Robotics Goes Viral"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wow! It has been an interesting couple of weeks!
\nBack on Dec. 23rd IEEE Spectrum published an interview<\/a> with us on our “SuperBall Bot” – a tensegrity robot for Landing and Planetary Exploration. From there the news went viral and was covered by around 60 media outlets around the world! The original IEEE blog post<\/a> was well written and based on a direct interview with us. The other media…. Well, lets just say that it was an excellent lesson in the horrible quality of science reporting. There were some excellent pieces here and there where folks had done actual research and dug up information on our project from our past papers and this blog (thank you!) — but much of the news coverage was wildly inaccurate — with factual inventions which were then copied and repeated by others.<\/p>\n

Here is the video interview that was associated with the IEEE blog<\/a>. This is a great video, and I’m glad it is available to share. In the first two weeks it was viewed about 280,000 times. neat!<\/p>\n