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Someone Used a Robot to Fix the Biggest Problem With Sun Dials: the Sun
Category: Technology
Duration: 00:01:46
Publish Date: 2018-05-11 06:13:44
Description: Build a better mousetrap, and they say the world will beat a path to your door. But the artists at Studio AATB probably shouldn’t expect much foot traffic after finding a way to use a wall-mounted robot arm to improve one of the oldest ways we have to tell time: the sun dial. Because our timekeeping is based on the movements of our solar system, it’s hard to find a more accurate way of telling time than the sun. It’s just unfortunately incredibly unreliable.
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