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Article: channeling da Vinci; An adolescent's passion for the famous inventor shaped the work of St. Paul robotics engineer Mark Rosheim, who finds himself in the middle of Leonardo mania.(SOURCE)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- June 11, 2006
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Byline: Kay Miller; Staff Writer
For 10 years, St. Paul robotics engineer Mark Rosheim was quietly obsessed with Leonardo da Vinci's Robot Knight, which is mentioned in "The Da Vinci Code." The armored knight was designed to sit up, wave its arms, rotate its head on a flexible neck and open its jaws. But how did it work, exactly?
Rosheim cobbled together the fragments of the knight's design that are scattered through Leonardo's voluminous manuscripts. He knew that the knight operated on a pulley-and-cable system. He even built a rudimentary model for a 2002 BBC television broadcast. But what made its arms move?
One day Rosheim was exercising at ...