The Amazing Slime Picker-Upper

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By John Baichtal
Posted 2011/03/28 @ 5:00 pm
Category General

The SWITL (translated) can pick up and deposit mayo, ketchup and other oozes and lay them down again with precision. [Via Pink Tentacle]

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15 Responses to The Amazing Slime Picker-Upper

Calvin Cheema on March 29th, 2011 at 1:01 am said:

Finally!

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- Calvin Cheema on March 29th, 2011 at 1:09 am said:
  
  Of course that ketchup I’ve been waiting to clean up has probably solidified by now…
  
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Fred Kulack on March 29th, 2011 at 2:24 am said:

Took me a bit to figure out. Its a roller. Look at the video on the main web site. Its a bit easier to see. Nice, video, it looks magically impossible.

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- Stephen Carr on March 29th, 2011 at 8:14 pm said:
  
  you sir, win. i can’t believe i couldn’t see that. it actually seems possible with that tidbit of information.
  
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Anonymous on March 29th, 2011 at 3:41 am said:

Search for superpeel! Great concept, but this looks like a whole new level.

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- Seth Meyers on March 29th, 2011 at 4:20 am said:
  
  exactly — I use this http://www.greeneggchef.com/Pizza-Peel.html — for breadmaking.
  
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no whey on March 29th, 2011 at 11:45 am said:

Pretty neat, but what’s the application? Not moving spills intact from one place to another.
We need practical tools like robots which can enter a nuclear reactor containment building and show us what’s happening inside.

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- Anonymous on March 29th, 2011 at 1:32 pm said:
  
  You know what? You’re absolutely right. Any device for which there is no immediately obvious application should be destroyed, or preferably not created in the first place.
  
  Also, listen up Makers! Stop working on your projects until the world’s problems have been solved!
  
  If you have any questions or comments regarding these policies, please direct them to “no whey”.
  
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  Anonymous on March 29th, 2011 at 1:39 pm said:
  
  Also,
  http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robots/japan-robots-to-fix-troubled-nuclear-reactors
  and
  http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/semiconductors/design/radiationhardening-101
  have some interesting discussion about using robots in nuclear reactors (hint: it’s not as simple as you seem to think).
  
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- Alan on March 29th, 2011 at 5:22 pm said:
  
  The application is obvious: this will be the perfect way to move my neighbor’s dog’s poop from my front yard to his doorstep.
  
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- Seth Meyers on March 29th, 2011 at 7:44 pm said:
  
  Dig down into the website — lots of industrial applications…it’s a Special World Idea Technology Revolution in mochi bun handling…
  
  http://furukawakiko.com/?p=135&preview=true
  
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- Tomasz Kurowski on April 4th, 2011 at 10:05 pm said:
  
  Automation for baked goods. Moving a row of non baked cookies (or more liquidy things) from one place to another without the required cleaning maintenance.
  
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Jim Dibb on March 29th, 2011 at 2:33 pm said:

People believe this is not just running it backward? Look at the smudges at 1:35 vs 1:42.

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Jim Dibb on March 29th, 2011 at 2:35 pm said:

People are sure this it not just running it backward? Look at the smudges at 1:35 vs 1:42.

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- VRAndy on March 29th, 2011 at 3:59 pm said:
  
  I don’t think so, the blotches they put back down are not pixel-perfect identical to the ones they pick up. They’re distorted slightly.
  
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