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Video Friday: Tap Finger, Move Mountain

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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 CSAIL ] If you look in the background of this video, there’s a person wearing an exoskeleton controlling the robot in the foreground. Humanoids 2023 : 12–14 December 2023, AUSTIN, TEX.

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Video Friday: Monocycle Robot With Legs

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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. Starship ] By blending 2D images with foundation models to build 3D feature fields, a new MIT method helps robots understand and manipulate nearby objects with open-ended language prompts.

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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: Dusty at Work

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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 !): I don't know whether it's intentional or not, but it's go so much personality somehow. Researchers at MIT have created a robotic system that can do just that.

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Video Friday: Welcome to 2022

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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 !): John Deere ] I appreciate the idea that this robot seems to have some conception of personal space and will react when that space is rudely violated. Xiaomi ] Thanks, Yangwei! "We

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Video Friday: FridgeBot

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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 ] NASA is sending a couple of robots to Venus in 2029! Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics.

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Flexible printed perovskite solar achieves a record 11% efficiency

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Read more: MIT just released directions for commercializing perovskite solar cells If you live in an area that has frequent natural disaster events, and are interested in making your home more resilient to power outages, consider going solar and adding a battery storage system. Get started here. –ad*

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