If your welly wanger isn’t wanging Wellingtons to your satisfaction, well, then, British researchers have devised a robot to do it for you. No rubbish, says the BBC. Professors at the Univeristy of Wales, in Aberystwyth, have kicked the British sport of hurling Wellington boots into the high-tech age with their invention, a wotsit that can send the footwear 262 feet through the air (that’s 80 meters, for those of you across the pond).
The daft blokes, who teach artificial intelligence and space robotics, plan to demonstrate the new robot in a competition to be aired on the telly.
To get the robotic bugger to work, they scrounged trash heaps to blag scrap metal and other guff, nabbed an engine from a cement mixer, and connected them to three computers. And, crikey, it actually works. —Dan Carnevale
