Watch This Parrot Drive A Parrot-Sized Robot Car

Friday, December 7, 2012 - 18:00 in Mathematics & Economics

The benefits of living with an engineer This African gray parrot named Pepper can not fly, since his wings are clipped. But he can drive a little buggy designed by his owner, Andrew Gray, an electrical and computer engineering graduate student at the University of Florida. So that pretty much makes Pepper the Mario Andretti of birds. Here's a video showing how the buggy works. Looks like fun! And the song is fun until (spoiler alert) the robot gains sentience. Anyway, enjoy! [The Guardian]

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