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Figure Promises First General Purpose Humanoid Robot

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And if anyone is going to take a useful humanoid robot from an engineering concept to commercial reality, these are the folks to do it. In general, with technology that’s available today, you can hit somewhere around 50%-60% on most human specs, like degrees of freedom, peak speeds and torques, things like that.

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MIT analysis finds current EVs could replace ~90% of personal vehicles now on the road based on driver’s energy consumption

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Developing the concepts and mathematical models required for a testable, quantitative analysis is helpful in these situations, where so much is at stake. The team found that the vast majority of cars on the road consume no more energy in a day than the battery energy capacity in affordable EVs available today.

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