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Video Friday: Beyond the Limit

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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. Energy Robotics ] This work presents a camera model for refractive media such as water and its application in underwater visual-inertial odometry. VISTEC ] Thanks Poramate! Paper ] Thanks Samarth!

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Video Friday: Ingenuity’s 50th Flight

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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. To showcase this new technology, the soft motor is used in a variety of applications from squeeze-based speed control to fully-soft underwater propulsion to hybrid water pumps to propelling a hybrid toy car.

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Video Friday: Origami Microflyers

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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. IROS 2023 : 1–5 October 2023, DETROIT CLAWAR 2023 : 2–4 October 2023, FLORIANOPOLIS, BRAZIL ROSCon 2023 : 18–20 October 2023, NEW ORLEANS Humanoids 2023 : 12–14 December 2023, AUSTIN, TEX.

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Video Friday: The Coolest Robots

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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. Deep Robotics ] Estimating terrain traversability in off-road environments requires reasoning about complex interaction dynamics between the robot and these terrains. Lite3’s announced price is US $2,900.

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Researchers determine specific rates of biodegradation for 125 petroleum compounds in Deepwater Horizon spill

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The complexity of the event has made it difficult for scientists to determine the long-term fate of oil in this ocean environment. This hadn’t previously been observed at this spatial scale or in this sort of environment, so this work is important in understanding the fate of oil that reaches the seafloor. Bagby, Christopher M.

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31 Things to Do for the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse

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What’s better than an indoor water park, like the one at the Great Wolf Lodge in Sandusky, Ohio? Delta Air Lines has been advertising path-of-totality flights from Austin (sold out) and Dallas-Fort Worth to Detroit. You’re experiencing the event in a sort of sterile environment,” Mr. Rao said.

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$112.5M awarded to research consortia studying effects of Deepwater Horizon oil spill on Gulf of Mexico

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These teams will investigate the fate of petroleum in the environment; the impacts of the spill; and the development of new tools and technology for responding to future spills and improving mitigation and restoration. The Research Consortia funded are: Lead Institution: The University of Texas at Austin, Marine Science Institute.

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