Robot TED Talk Will Make You Believe in Magic..
By Lance Ulanoff for Mashable..
Magician’s assistants may soon be out of work. Robots are not only ready to take their place, but they’re doing it live and on a TED stage.
After months of development, training and practice, self-styled “techno illusionist” Marco Tempest took a Baxter robot, renamed him EDI (pronounced “Eddie”) and put him on stage doing magic tricks at the recent TED2014 conference in Vancouver.
Tempest’s six-minute TED talk, seen below, is a testament to what’s possible with modern robots. As he told Mashable last July, “It’s time for magicians and technologists to collaborate.”