http://www.quantumjuggling.com/

An insanely detailed, highly configurable juggling simulator (for those of who who are into this sort of thing)

Jugglers are (almost) Obsolete part III. This robot can juggle 2 ping pong balls on a bat and it’s doing it the clever way.
Really impressive – Skynet is coming.
Enjoy, MoM.

Hands down, the most awesome action scene from any movie ever. I challenge you to come up with anything even close.
Via Reddit

The Jamaica song from Futurama. Features a 3 object cascade as well as cigar box style manipulations.. and they actually animate it properly (rather than the silly/impossible circular shower pattern that normally is used whenever a cartoon needs to show someone juggling)!

via Reddit

Quadrotor Juggling – we jugglers are one step closer to obsolescence.
It’s obvious that the real purpose of these things is to sneak into our bedrooms while we sleep and kill people. But they won’t be able to kill us jugglers, why not?
Because we stay up all night practicing juggling, so they will have to TRY to beat us in a juggle battle instead.
Fat chance, 1 ball, pah. Come back when you’ve got; 2 Quadrotors, 7 balls and a book of siteswaps. Then a worthy challenger you will be!
ETH Via Botjunkie

Don’t watch the clip above, go to Youtube and watch it in High Def.
The first video from Nika from the recent MoM Berlin Masterclass. Super super effect from the lovely camera lens. Hire him, he makes stuff look amazing with a camera.
Oh, and I’m in the Video, too.
I bust out after day two of the workshop. MY eyes bug when I watch this, and I was there!
Thanks Nika! I can’t wait to see more videos!
Edit: Drew I added a category, cos Ed was too modest.

Five and a half years after starting MoM, we have; 1 book, 2 weddings, several MoM workshops, and over 1 000 000 unique visitors (according to our stats counter).
And this is MoM’s 1000th blog post.
Phew.
Thanks for reading, and here’s to the next 5 years.
The above image is from theFlickr acrylic balls pool. by Maido of Japan.
Smiles
Drew

Cute overdose of dancing robots; a longtime favorite on the M.o.M. blog. I particularly enjoy the ballet choreography.

Happy Friday!

p.s. these little guys also play in the RoboCup

This Delta Robot by Mimixmotion constructs a 3 layer pyramid and completes the routine with some 2 ball “spin-spin” flowers.
Multiball contact jugglers can soon to retire, while skynet takes over the world of manipulation.
Gotta love your Friday morning robot pR0n!
via the highly esteemed Lady Ada

Mmm… Lovely performance, mixing in loads of animation techniques, and some tight, funky boog.

He’s loving being on that stage, and the audience are loving watching him.

Good show.

After the silly robot intro, LCD launches into a wicked display of contact juggling isolations. To quote Su-nami from www.contactjuggling.org

How is it when you Isolate an acrylic it looks like an incredibly intricate dance form and when i isolate an acrylic it looks like, well, someone isolating an acrylic?

LCD (aka Liquid Crystal Display aka ‘elsie-dee’ aka Nika aka Nick) and Matt Hennem have been obsessing for a decade now about the fine details of moving a ball from point ‘A’ to point ‘B.’
For more, check his youtube profile

Browsing circus videos at the Ministry of Manipulation just got even more addictive.

We’ve installed a ‘related videos’ plugin to help you discover some of the past content that has been featured on our site. Click the post title, and just above the comments for each video our super-intelligent MinistryofManipulation.com robots (from Japan!) have prepared suggestions for past videos that are just as awesome as the one’s you’ll find on the front page of our site.

Every new video leads to MORE awesome videos you may not have seen yet. Check it out! (and let us know what you think in the comments)