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hey guys my name is Stephen Beecham and here's just happening this week on CNET's crave blog researchers at Cornell University and robotics fans on the internet have trained a PR to robot to autonomously make coffee based on objects the robot recognizes in a database of images the robot was able to figure out the corresponding action needed to perform with each object it observed even though it had never seen in a special machine before in its life the robot barista was able to identify a lever on an espresso machine based on an image of a urinal handle it had in its database previously and figured out the correct movement coordinates to grasp and activate that handle on the espresso machine if you were interested in helping the robot learn more tasks you can sign up to be part of the robo briefs to project a Cornell's website and read more about the Robo brain project on the crave blog post professional chorus singer Aaron Johnson who also happens to be an affiliate faculty member at the bio Imaging Science and Technology Group at the Beckman Institute in Illinois jumped into a new super fast MRI machine capable of capturing video at 100 frames per second and sang the song if I only had a brain my thoughts were busy hat if I only had a parade I Johnson and many scientists are interested in how the muscles in our face work together in concert to produce the sounds humans make Johnson also expressed an interest in learning how our vocal cords change over time as we age and how those changes affect the quality of her voice the Avengers age of Ultron is coming out next week in an honor the film's release fanboy and evil genius maker Patrick grieve has created a working iron man power glove that can do some serious damage in this video he devastates some balloons and burnt some wooden pieces with a high-powered laser and it looks awesome and scary this isn't Patrick's first walk in the park with the laser stuff however a few years ago crave reported on the Iron Man laser gauntlet that he produced and showed off on his youtube channel called laser gadgets where you can check out more of his laser creation Hanson robotics recently showed up their newest humanoid robot hahn at the Global Sources electronics fair in Hong Kong Han is capable of making multiple facial expressions that are created using 40 small motors underneath the skin on his face which is made of a material called rubber which is short for flesh rubber which was patented by the robotics maker Han is equipped with facial recognition software so he will always look you in the eyes while speaking and react accordingly to facial expressions you might make during your awkward conversation while there's a finance and robotics plans on commercializing its robotic systems using another humanoid robot named Eva which might be employed for educational purposes aged care or even medical training applications alright guys that's your show thank you very much for watching as always you can find all these news stories to cnet's crave blog at crave athena com make sure you full of crap on twitter at crave can check out this week's crave giveaway this week's crave giveaway is the brave and Lux portable bluetooth speaker this bluetooth speaker has a built-in power bank for charging your devices go to the blog and enter to win alright the force is strong in my family my father has it I have it my sister hasn't you have that power too Chewie we're all