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Via Empire Robotics
Sorry bro, your days of dominating everyone at beer pong are numbered.
Empire Robotics has created a robotic arm with a specialized ball on the end of it that hardens and softens to pick up objects.
So, for example, it can pick up ping pong balls and toss them into Solo cups.
Watch it flawlessly make 6 cups in a row in the video above, and – if you dare – challenge it in person at the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.
"The robot is not perfect, so it's possible for a human to win, but it's pretty good, so you'd have to be pretty good at beer pong," said the company's project manager John Dean.
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Americans are enthusiastic about the promise of science but lack basic knowledge of it, with one in four unaware that the Earth revolves around the Sun, said a poll out Friday.
The survey included more than 2,200 people in the United States and was conducted by the National Science Foundation.
Ten questions about physical and biological science were on the quiz, and the average score -- 6.5 correct -- was barely a passing grade.
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Forget frozen pizza; science has finally created a slice that can last three years on the shelf before going bad.
No, it's not DiGiorno. It's a ready-to-eat meal — known as a MRE — created for the military. In combat zones where field kitchens are not an option, soldiers rely on these meals, which don't need to be refrigerated or frozen.
