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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? With the RPD 35, a two-person crew can install pile more productivity than traditional methods.

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Video Friday: TurtleBot 4

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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 !): Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics.

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Video Friday: DALL-E 2

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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. PneuBots is a modular soft robotics construction kit consisting of seven types of self-foldable segments with high tensile strength, three types of pneumatic connectors and splitters, and a custom-designed box.

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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. He founded Revolution Robotics; a non-profit dedicated to making robotics hardware and software kits accessible to all communities, to make his vision into a reality. 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 !): MIT CSAIL ] I'm not sure I've seen this particular balancing behavior from Digit demonstrated quite so explicitly. AutoX ] How to knockdown [a] heavy object as a bipedal robot.

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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 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. the big event was a demonstration by PARC researchers of the systems they had built.

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