University of Tokyo
About University of Tokyo
The University of Tokyo is a public research university in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1877 as the nation's first modern university by the merger of several pre-westernisation era institutions, its direct precursors include the Tenmongata, founded in 1684, and the Shōheizaka Institute.
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In 2008, researchers at the University of Tokyo teamed up with Japan's origami airplane association. They did tests in wind tunnels and managed to show that an origami paper plane could hold its own at huge speeds of wind passing through it.
from No Such Thing As Jiminy's Cricket Shop, 2021-07-30 at 00:39:36 · read transcript
Other times University of Tokyo came up
Even if you have two apples, they might not be exactly the same. Two bananas might not be exactly the same. There's a guy called Hichiel Kim at the University of Tokyo. He and his colleagues have developed a machine learning robots that has learned how to peel a banana. It took eight. 811 minutes of data that it had to watch to learn how to do this banana The task was divided into nine stages Like first of all grasping the banana then picking it up off the table blah blah blah Okay And now they have this robot that can successfully peel a banana 57% of the time I'm not gonna I'm not gonna stop staff my um holiday beach bar with it Am I?
No Such Thing As A Magnetic Skateboard, 2022-05-20 · listen
This was a study done by the University of Tokyo and they gave a load of people movies to watch and also movies with no narrative like just an aquarium and also an audio book and they showed that people watching the movie were blinking in sync about 30%.
No Such Thing As Constantly Awake Beauty, 2017-06-16 · listen
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