Eddy's Good News: The longest gallery in the world and the newest autonomous robots

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12 Jul 2024, 13:15

Every day during his show on Virgin Radio Anthems, Eddy Temple-Morris brings you Good News stories from around the world, to help inject a bit of positivity into your day!

Be sure to listen each day between 2pm and 6pm (Monday - Friday) to hear Eddy's Good News stories (amongst the finest music of course), but if you miss any of them you can catch up on the transcripts of Eddy's most recent stories below:

Friday 12th July 2024

The city of Seoul has a new art gallery, it’s outside and it’s the longest one in the world!

In a move that will inspire urban planners globally, the capital of South Korea’s government held a competition to develop the space underneath their famous Fountain Bridge over the Han river.

The competition was won by a dutch company who’ve designed a stunning fuschia walkway that twists and turns under the bridge supports, with regular viewing platforms and public spaces for art and sculpture, all of it protected from the rain by the bridge above it and none of it getting in the way of the flow of pedestrians and bikes below.

The walkway will be a perfect place to enjoy the fountains lit up by a rainbow cascade of 38 water pumps, 380 nozzles, speakers, lights and projectors making this one of the modern wonders of the world.

Via: goodnewsnetwork.org

Robots can look pretty cute, and there’s a strong chance they’re going to get a lot cuter, because they might be getting whiskers!

The newest autonomous robots use all kinds of high tech to navigate: rangefinders, cameras, and lasers, but the addition of whiskers could be a cheap modification that prevents some seriously expensive collisions. Lots of animals from cats to mice to seals use whiskers to help them navigate in small spaces and we all know how brilliantly efficient and quiet their movements are.

Aussie engineers have designed and produced, and cheaply too, a set of 3D-printed whiskers that should allow robots to glean better intel about their surroundings, particularly in blind spots. Perfect for home, office, warehouse or shipping robots, even those vacuum cleaners or lawnmowers. I’m all for anything that makes anything look more like a cat ;)

Via: goodnewsnetwork.org