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Elephant Robotics Unveils New Desktop Educational Robots for 2023

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For robots to become widely used in education, they need to be smaller, easier to setup and use, and, more important, they need to be affordable to educators and students. Using the robotic arms and AI Kit , students can learn about artificial intelligence and applications such as robot vision, object recognition, manipulation, and more.

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Ride1Up Prodigy V2 review: An affordable Brose mid-drive e-bike for the common man!

Baua Electric

The company has always sought to provide most of what you can get from higher-priced electric bike models, yet at a much more affordable price. It even has a slickly integrated tail light right in the rack’s deck, ensuring there’s one less thing to bash on a bike rack. Don’t believe me? Watch my testing video below to see it in action!

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Cat Toys, ToasterBots, and Scolding Lamps

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HRI isn’t just for social robots—even the most industrial of industrial robots, the lights-out manufacturing sorts of things that may never see a human while operating unless something is (or is about to be) very very wrong, still have to be set up and programmed by a human, and those humans are happiest when engineers remember that they exist.

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This Rice University Professor Developed Cancer-Detection Technology

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Richards-Kortum is a professor of bioengineering at Rice University , in Houston, and codirector of the Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies , which is developing affordable medical equipment for underresourced hospitals. The light source is a blue LED with a peak wavelength of 455 nm.

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US Army, Lockheed Martin complete 2nd autonomous convoy demo; more vehicles, higher speeds

Green Car Congress

The AMAS common appliqué kit consists of the bi-wire active safety kit and the autonomy kit. It uses Global Positioning System (GPS), Light Detecting Radar (LIDAR) systems, Automotive Radio Detection and Ranging (RADAR) and commercially available automotive sensors in order to make the system affordable.

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Portable Analyzer Brings Blood Testing to Rural Areas

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Seeing the need for a more transportable system that can analyze blood samples in rural and remote areas, two researchers in India have developed a new design that is simple, affordable, and easily deployed anywhere where a source of electricity is available. Many existing devices in the laboratory use light to analyze blood sample.

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Power Global launches eZee swappable battery EVs in India 

Electric Vehicles India

The swappable battery is designed for light vehicles including two and three-wheeler vehicles. The demand that we see in emerging markets is greater than those experienced by the United States, as millions of drivers are limited by options to affordably switch to electric mobility,” said Porter Harris, CEO, and founder of Power Global.

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