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So what would be better to use?
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The Herring Gull,
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the Herring Gull,
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circling and swooping over the sea,
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and use this as a role model.
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and [to] use this as a role model?
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So within the motor, we have three holes,
 
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So within the motor, we have three Hall sensors,
 
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Only if you control and regulate it
 
Only if you control and regulate it
 
Only if you control and regulate it,
 
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will you get that aerodynamic efficiency.
 
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==Discussion==
 
==Discussion==

Latest revision as of 19:40, 12 August 2011

This is a page of resources and discussion for "A robot that flies like a bird"

The talk

TED http://www.ted.com/talks/a_robot_that_flies_like_a_bird.html

YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg_JcKSHUtQ

dotSUB http://dotsub.com/view/60dbeab3-b0d5-466a-9c10-43455a44536c


Related articles

SmartBird – bird flight deciphered (Festo) http://www.festo.com/cms/en_corp/11369.htm

Festo – SmartBird (video) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnR8fDW3Ilo

Festo - SmartBird Animation (video) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fbmWQ3ExEs

SmartBird (brochure) http://www.festo.com/net/SupportPortal/Downloads/46270/Brosch_SmartBird_en_8s_RZ_110311_lo.pdf

Wow: SmartBird in the wild, swarmed by seagulls (TED Blog) http://blog.ted.com/2011/07/22/wow-smartbird-in-the-wild-swarmed-by-seagulls/

Ornithopter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornithopter


Terms and expressions

Herring Gull http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Herring_Gull

Hall effect sensor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall_effect_sensor


Errors in the transcript

12 [fixed; transcript was correct, but the sentence did not make sense because the speaker omitted a few grammatically important words]
00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:34,000
So what would be better to use?
So what would be better [than] to use 
13
00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:36,000
The Herring Gull,
the Herring Gull,

14
00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:38,000
circling and swooping over the sea,

15
00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:41,000
and use this as a role model.
and [to] use this as a role model?

55  [fixed]
00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:28,000
So within the motor, we have three holes,
So within the motor, we have three Hall sensors,

75  [fixed]
00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:27,000
We had to know about
We had knowledge about

86  [fixed]
00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:51,000
Only if you control and regulate it
Only if you control and regulate it,

87  [fixed]
00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:54,000
will you get that aerodynamic efficiency.
you will get that aerodynamic efficiency.

Discussion