Magician's assistants may soon be out of work. Robots are not only ready to take their place, but they're doing it live and on a TED stage
After months of development, training and practice, self-styled "techno illusionist" Marco Tempest took a Baxter robot, renamed him EDI (pronounced "Eddie") and put him on stage doing magic tricks at the recent TED2014 conference in Vancouver.
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Tempest's six-minute TED talk, seen below, is a testament to what's possible with modern robots. As he told Mashable last July, "It’s time for magicians and technologists to collaborate.” Read more...
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