Just because it's interesting - have a look on it (Nov/28/2009 )
I guess in your lab it would be a really expensive, fashionable high-tech solution for this studio. but the robots would be like crap....well everybody focuses on different topics
....this is the kind of robot I like (you more so) :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zMoB4l2IgU
didn't know that you're a Battlestar Galactica fan
and this are the preliminary tests, until the robot type was changed (best without sound):
robo talk? what about these?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1BdQcJ2ZYY
ok...this is the fuller version of those flying robot thingies.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ErEBkj_3PY&feature=related
And here on the left side the newly described horse fly (or gad fly) with the interesting name Scaptia beyonceae
Why this name? Because of the conspicuous "buttocks"
this is very interesting...and beautiful as well.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFQ_fO2D7f0
Michael Pawlyn is a British architect who headed the Eden Project: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eden_Project and has been working on environmentally sustainable projects that are influenced by nature.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeh-ygP8TRo
Janine M. Benyus is an American natural sciences writer who popularised the term biomimicry through her books and founder of a non-profit organisation-the Biomimicry Institute.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_GFq12w5WU