Robot butters toast

Rob Beschizza 5:27 am Thu Feb 16, 2017

William Osman built a toast-buttering robot. It's really something: "I'm not sure how to mount the butter to the jigsaw." (Jump to 6:35 or so just to see The Buttering)

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