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A New Olympics Event: Algorithmic Video Surveillance

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This summer, at the Paris Olympic Games, security officials will perform a much bigger experiment in the heart of the City of Light, covering the events, the entire Olympic village, and the connecting roads and rails. This article is part of our special report Top Tech 2024. Human rights in other countries may suffer.

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Watch the world’s first artificial energy island being built [video]

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The 20,000-ton caissons, which will form the energy island’s outer walls, are being built at Jan De Nul Group and DEME’s construction site in Vlissingen, the Netherlands. The energy island will be finished in late 2026 when the electrical equipment will start to be installed. It takes around three months to build one caisson.

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Video Friday: RACER Heavy

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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. Demand has skyrocketed, and now the primary barrier to getting it installed is labor logistics and bandwidth. Solar has rapidly become the cheapest form of power generation in many regions.

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PROSUME blockchain-based platform for new peer-to-peer energy models; EV platform

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We aim to combine the network and energy layer to build a blockchain-based Internet of Energy, reducing the points of failure and the need for additional hardware from its adaptability in integrating with available and installed technologies —Alfredo Giardina, Co-founder of PROSUME Energy Foundation. The PROSUME token launch.

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Video Friday: Co-Expression

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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. Their actuator, published 20 March in Science Robotics , uses springs and clutches to accomplish a variety of tasks with a fraction of the energy usage of a typical electric motor.

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Video Friday: Robots Stock Up

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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. Agility Robotics ] Lunar Zebro, a project of the @TU Delft in the Netherlands wants to build a robot and be the first Dutch and European rover to walk on the Moon.

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Video Friday: Uncrewed

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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. Amazon ] Using GPT3, Ameca answers user-submitted questions for you in the first installment of Ask Ameca! Its name is Bluebell.