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Jervois begins commissioning at Idaho Cobalt Operations; only cobalt mine in US

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Jervois has an option to refine ICO cobalt concentrate at its 100%-owned São Miguel Paulista (SMP) refinery in São Paulo, Brazil, and is continuing its negotiations with third-party processors in countries allied to the US. The site was closed in 1982, after severely contaminating water nearby with heavy metals. Operating Costs.

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Video Friday: TruckBot

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We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Deep Robotics ] Turns out, if you make feet into hydrofoil shapes and put a pair of legs into a water current that’s been disturbed by a cylinder, you’ll get a fairly convincing biological walking gait.

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IISA study proposes using airships for efficient cargo or hydrogen transportation

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In the study, researchers from IIASA, Brazil, Germany, and Malaysia looked into how an airship-based industry could be developed using the jet stream as the energy medium to transport cargo around the world. This water could be used to increase the weight of the airship and further save energy in its descending trajectory.

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Video Friday: Peep Handling

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We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Unitree ] ORNL researchers study the effects of energy use on waterways and develop solutions to limit water pollution. Happy Peep Consumption Day!

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Video Friday: Tensegrity Wheels

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We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. IROS 2023 : 1–5 October 2023, DETROIT CLAWAR 2023 : 2–4 October 2023, FLORIANOPOLIS, BRAZIL ROSCon 2023 : 18–20 October 2023, NEW ORLEANS Humanoids 2023 : 12–14 December 2023, AUSTIN, TEX.

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Video Friday: Ingenuity’s 50th Flight

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We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. To showcase this new technology, the soft motor is used in a variety of applications from squeeze-based speed control to fully-soft underwater propulsion to hybrid water pumps to propelling a hybrid toy car.

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Video Friday: The Coolest Robots

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We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. FRC ] ANYmal is rated IP67 for water resistance, but this still terrifies me. Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics.