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Video Friday: Resilient Bugbots

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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. MIT ] This robot gripper is called DragonClaw, and do you really need to know anything else? Michigan Robotics ] The RPD 35 from Built Robotics is the world’s first autonomous piling system.

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Video Friday: Quadruped Transformer

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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. Swiss-Mile ] OTTO Lifter drives nimbly in crowded and dynamic environments and improves safety in warehouses and facilities. Robot Brains ] Thanks, Alice!

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Video Friday: Lunar Rover

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We’ll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months; here's what we have so far ( send us your events !): This is cool looking, but I'd need to know more about how this system can deal with an actual lunar environment, right? Here we release a digest video of the demonstration.

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Video Friday: Mini Pupper

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We'll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months; here's what we have so far ( send us your events !): The basic kit is $250, which includes just the custom parts, so you'll need to add your own 3D printed parts, some of the electronics, and the battery. Grey Walter.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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The Open Environment and How It Changed PARC started with a small nucleus—perhaps fewer than 20 people. The first personal computer developed in the United States is commonly thought to be the MITS Altair, which sold as a hobbyist’s kit in 1976. At nearly the same time the Apple I became available, also in kit form.

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Video Friday: A 3-Year-Old Robot

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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. MIT ] Legged robots are heading to Mars! [ ANYmal X demonstrates its capabilities for extending robotic inspection into Ex-environments (Zone 1) that haven’t been accessible for this technology before.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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Our PRIUS+ Project Photos PHEV Resources Global Warming Take Action News and Events Contact Us How Carmakers are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity If you ask, "have major auto-makers come around on PHEVs?", Cischke, Ford senior vice president for sustainability, environment and safety engineering. "By Marketwatch ).

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