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Video Friday: GR-1

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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. A team led by researchers at the University of Washington created a set of 11 actions a robotic arm can make to pick up nearly any food attainable by fork. Fourier Intelligence ] Thanks, Ni Tao!

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A New Wildfire Watchdog

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A sensor network that could monitor an entire forest, or a gas pipeline, or any critical infrastructure, would need thousands or even millions of sensors—and batteries. The sensor equivalent of a sleeping dog is called an event-driven sensor. Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University. Kind of a pain, wasn't it?

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With This Bionic Nose, COVID Survivors May Smell the Roses Again

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There won’t be Scotch tape on the final model,” says Costanzo , as he rearranges the gear in his lab at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), in Richmond. And on one occasion he was oblivious to a gas leak, only realizing the danger when his wife came home and raised the alarm. The University of Manchester.

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Boeing details improvements to Li-ion battery system for 787; more than 200,000 engineering hours applied so far

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The company’s intent is to provide three layers of protection: preventing initiation of an event at the cell level; preventing propagation of an event to the other cells in the pack; and preventing impact to the airplane. The events. What was reported as smoke was vaporized electrolyte, Sinnett said.).

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