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Video Friday: Constant Gardener

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Constant Gardener ] via [ RobotStart ] Engineers at MIT and Shanghai Jiao Tong University have designed a soft, lightweight, and potentially low-cost neuroprosthetic hand. It's been a hectic couple of days, so here are some retired industrial robots quietly drawing lines in sand. JPL ] Robot arm manages to not kill plants. ElliQ ].

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Video Friday: Constant Gardener

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Constant Gardener ] via [ RobotStart ] Engineers at MIT and Shanghai Jiao Tong University have designed a soft, lightweight, and potentially low-cost neuroprosthetic hand. It's been a hectic couple of days, so here are some retired industrial robots quietly drawing lines in sand. JPL ] Robot arm manages to not kill plants. ElliQ ].

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Video Friday: Autonomous Drift

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MIT ] In this video we demonstrate fully autonomous multi-contact locomotion for our humanoid robot LOLA. Paper ] The ExynAeo autonomously explores a water-logged stope in Alaska while a survey team monitors the robot's real-time progress while warm and dry in their vehicle.

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