Jaws Baby Bed: We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Cot

If you’re a new parent and you want a terrifying scene for your home, try something like this Jaws inspired cot. This thing offers up a scene where a shark is eating your baby alive. It looks even more realistic when your baby is crying and just generally looking cranky. You have to wonder if this is going to scare your little one for life though. Probably, but totally worth it. It will make some psychiatrist rich in the future at least.


This fun cot was created by sculptor and Jaws fan Joseph Reginella, and was inspired by Quint’s death scene in Spielberg’s classic shark film. Apparently, it works great as a place for the baby to sleep, while making everyone else who sees it cringe. And as you can see from one of these images here, it also makes a great cat bed.

The only thing that could make this better is if it was animated so that the jaws made a chewing action that made it look like it was really eating the baby. This kid has such a cool dad. I bet he’ll make more cool things as the kid gets older and if they are really cool we’ll feature them so you can see.

Posted by Joseph Reginella on Monday, February 5, 2018

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MIT’s cheetah robot runs faster, more efficiently, can carry its own power supply (video)

MIT's own cheetah robot runs faster, more efficiently video

When it comes to hunting down humans running speeds, MIT's cheetah might come second to Boston Dynamics' own high-velocity quadruped, but by substituting pneumatics with motors, MIT's version apparently runs far more efficiently. At the recent International Conference on Robotics and Automation, the Institute of Technology showed of its newest version, which reached a top speed of 13.7 mph. To accomplish this, the runner still needs parallel support bars to constrain movement in one dimension, reducing any roll, yaw -- and the chances of a pretty expensive fall. The team says the new version's cost of transport (COT is power consumption divided by weight, times velocity) is around 0.52. In comparison, Honda's Asimo has a hefty COT of 2.

This impressive efficiency is down to the use of electric motors over hydraulics, with a new "three phase permanent magnet synchronous motor" providing the necessary torque. Researchers also used biometric principles to conserve energy and reduce stress on joints, including Kevlar tendons across the back of the legs. With all those efficiency increases, it mean that MIT's cheetah can theoretically run while carrying its own power source. We've added a video after the break, where you can see the bot hit its top speed while carrying some battery dummy weights.

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Via: Spectrum IEEE

Source: MIT Biomimetics