Ig Nobel Prize winner Daniel Bonn, together with colleagues Menno Demmenie and Stefan Kooij, celebrates the winter holiday season by playing with ice. They explain: “We love ice; not just because we are based in the Netherlands, where we yearn for skating on frozen canals, but also because of its fascinating physics. This December, we […]
The ever expanding list of professional activities that are in imminent danger of replacement by AI and/or robots has a new addition – Topiarists. A topiary-bot is currently under test at Wageningen University, The Netherlands, as part of the the university’s TrimBot2020 project. Which is seeking to “advance the robotics and computer vision technology needed […]
You might assume that since the occupation of ‘topiarist’ goes back nearly 2000 years (Pliny the Younger 62-100AD was a keen topiarist) it might well go on for another 2000. And it might – but nonetheless, as with many other occupations, professional topiarists might be well advised to keep an eye on new technological developments. […]
This video demonstrates an efficient way to trim a tree: (Thanks to Vaughn Tan for bringing this to our attention.)
