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Video Friday: Robotics After Hours

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AeroVironment ] We are excited to announce the availability of Skydio 2+, our newest drone, which adds important battery-, range-, controller-, and autonomy-software improvements. NASA’s Insight lander put itself in a "safe mode" to conserve battery power after dust prevented sunlight from reaching the solar panels.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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described the design of lnterpress, a printing protocol: “One of the designers was in Pittsburgh, one of them was in Philadelphia, there were three of us in this area, and a couple in El Segundo [Calif.]. It was battery-powered, ran Smalltalk, and had a touch-sensitive screen designed by Thornburg. “We Palo Alto, Calif.,

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