Dispensary Corner 24 Feb 12
February 24, 2012
WHO needs artists.
In the battle of art vs science
chalk one up for science, after
researchers developed a robot
which can sketch portraits.
Nicknamed Robotticelli, the
robot uses an image-evaluation
for its sense of “sight” to
accurately sketch its subject.
“Once the camera has captured
the image, edge-processing
software then seeks out the
contrasts in the image and
translates these to robot
coordinates - to the movement of
the robot’s arm,” said scientist
Martina Richter who helped
design Robotticelli.
MULTIPLE births.
One exhausted Tibetan mastiff, Black Pearl, has made her owner very rich, after giving birth to a whopping litter of 22 pups. The Tibetan mastiff is one of the world’s most expensive dogs, each fetching around $150,000, however this price can fluctuate to as much as $2m (which was the price paid recently for a prized specimen in China). Black Pearl’s owner, Guo Qingcai, conveniently happens to be a pet store operator, and said his beloved pooch was given to him three years ago by a generous friend. “We have always treated her like our own child and given her nothing but the best,” he said. Guo and his wife are now furiously working around the clock to help Black Pearl care for her brood, taking turns hand feeding the pups with warm milk. Speaking to media about the large litter, Su Zhanqiang, of Xinjiang Agricultural University, said the breed usually give birth to four to five pups, and that it was very rare for them to have more than seven or eight.
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