2019-03-25

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Tom Scott

The Multi-Axes Rotation and Tilt Device (MART) is used for spatial orientation experiments: it's a chair balanced on a metaphorical knife-edge, powered by precise and fast motors. And my job was to not fall over.

More about the Ashton Graybiel Spatial Orientation Laboratory: https://www.brandeis.edu/graybiel/

More about the MART: https://www.brandeis.edu/graybiel/facilities/mart.html

More about Vivek's research: https://sites.google.com/view/vivekanandpandeyvimal

3D printed movement sculptures by Sacha Panic, Ian Roy, Alberto Pierobon and Vivekanand Pandey Vimal

Edited by Michelle Martin (@mrsmmartin)

Audio mix by Graham Haerther http://haerther.net

Thanks to Jordan Harrod for the title!

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