Tag: Ostrich

10 DEC

The Rise and Fall and Rise of South Africa’s Ostrich King

In 1890, at age 17, Max Rose arrived in hot, dusty Oudtshoorn — penniless and alone, fresh off the boat from Shavli, Lithuania. From humble beginnings as an ostrich feather buyer, he soon purchased a farm where he raised ostriches and grew alfalfa. Sixty-one years later, when he was buried in Oudtshoorn’s Jewish cemetery, he […]

09 JUL

Embrace Your Wild Side As A Giraffe, Ostrich, And More In Zooicide

Zooicide is a team-based multiplayer games that pits human against animal. Perhaps you would like to hunt the ferocious animals as the strong human – armed to the teeth with explosives and weaponry. If that option isn’t for you, whip out your long tongue as a Giraffe and slap the humans across the face. Zooicide […]

03 MAY

This ostrich robot doesn’t need to think to run

This tiny ostrich bot, unlike rival robots, doesn’t using computers and sensors to balance. It manages to keep running (at up to 10 mph) thanks to its built-in dynamic stability. Jerry Pratt, the senior research scientist at IHMC who leads the team developing the Planar Elliptical Runner (PER) says that lessons learned from it could […]