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Video Friday: Constant Gardener

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Constant Gardener ] via [ RobotStart ] Engineers at MIT and Shanghai Jiao Tong University have designed a soft, lightweight, and potentially low-cost neuroprosthetic hand. It's been a hectic couple of days, so here are some retired industrial robots quietly drawing lines in sand. JPL ] Robot arm manages to not kill plants. ElliQ ].

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Video Friday: Constant Gardener

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Constant Gardener ] via [ RobotStart ] Engineers at MIT and Shanghai Jiao Tong University have designed a soft, lightweight, and potentially low-cost neuroprosthetic hand. It's been a hectic couple of days, so here are some retired industrial robots quietly drawing lines in sand. JPL ] Robot arm manages to not kill plants. ElliQ ].

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

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It occurred in the wake of the California electricity crisis of 2000 and 2001, when mismanaged deregulation, market manipulation, and environmental catastrophe combined to unhinge the power grid. ACP looked at other ways of marketing its technology and saw an opportunity in the California electricity crisis then unfolding.

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