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Cartwheel Robotics Wants to Build Humanoids that People Love

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Cartwheel is more interested in building robots that people can connect with, with the eventual goal of general purpose home companionship. They lack personality. As the previous generation of social robots learned the hard way, it takes a lot more than good looks for a robot to connect with humans over the long term.

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2027 Slate Truck Previewed: Both Inspired And Inane

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Of particular interest is the fact that this isn't strictly a "connected vehicle." But a person would need to use their phone to upload anything to the truck. And so, technically speaking, we actually don't need connectivity. A subset of America has been asking for simple and affordable vehicles using less tech for years.

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Video Friday: High Mobility Logistics

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And for those of us who remember when Asimo running was a big deal, marathon running is still impressive in some sense, its just hard to connect that to these robots doing anything practical, you know? [ I will also present recent progress by Hello Robot toward unsupervised, daily in-home use by a person with severe mobility impairments. [

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These Graphene Tattoos Are Actually Biosensors

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But monitoring individuals over not just weeks or months but years can be achieved only with an engineering breakthrough: affordable sensors that ordinary people will use routinely as they go about their lives. Each persons biometric patterns are uniquethe relationship between a persons bioimpedance and blood pressure is uniquely their own.

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Henry Samueli and the Rise of Digital Broadband

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It was also affordable because he could live with his parents. His parents, Holocaust survivors from Krakow, Poland, who operated a series of small businesses in Los Angeles, were committed to supporting his education but couldnt afford to send him away to school.) But Nick [Henry Nicholas] takes care of that, thank you very much.

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We’re Charging Our Cars Wrong

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Grounding is exactly what it sounds like: a direct physical connection to the earth that provides a path for electric current. If the ground connection in an electric car charger is broken or compromised, the charge port must have a backup solution. Equipment may also be damaged or even sabotaged.

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Visting Shanghai Now: It’s a Blue-Sky, App-Based Life

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Standard-issue tourist visas, which require an in-person consulate visit and allow you to stay longer, are still an option). The rides are so affordable around 200 yuan ($27) for an hourlong ride from the airport, and often a few dollars for inner-city trips that I rarely took the metro. Even Beijing is now only 4.5 hour flight.