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July 25, 2013 Andy Cush

RHex, a small, six-legged robot, is designed to navigate tough terrain, with springy limbs, relatively high speed, and the ability to move even after its been flipped upside-down. According to Boston Dynamics, creators of one of several RHex types, the bot “climbs in rock fields, mud, sand, vegetation, railroad tracks, telephone poles and up slopes […]

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July 5, 2013 Kyle Chayka

A group of Parkour “traceurs” in Cambridge made this video to show “some clean movement at a few of the choice spots in the city.” Watch above as Ampisound team member James Kingston leaps from building to building at quite the dizzying pace as if it’s you. The filming is reminiscent of Mirror’s Edge, a popular parkour game from 2007 […]

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