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Video Friday: Googly Eye

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Boston Dynamics ] What can robots actually do.today? Can they help the average person beat a high jumper? We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. The Testing Lab” is a new series from Michigan Robotics.

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Video Friday: Resilient Bugbots

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With the RPD 35, a two-person crew can install pile more productivity than traditional methods. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Michigan Robotics ] The RPD 35 from Built Robotics is the world’s first autonomous piling system. ARL ] Thanks, Kostas!

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From EE to VC: Eileen Tanghal's Journey

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Eileen Tanghal Employer: Black Opal Ventures, New York City Title: Cofounder Education: MIT, London Business School “We want to improve health care accessibility and affordability,” Tanghal says. “To Tanghal then decided to pursue an MBA from the London Business School. “I One of Amadeus’s cofounders was Hermann Hauser.

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South Fork Wind just became the US’s first complete utility-scale offshore wind farm

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Danish renewables giant Ørsted and Boston-based energy provider Eversource developed the 132-megawatt (MW) South Fork Wind. Your personalized solar quotes are easy to compare online and you’ll get access to unbiased Energy Advisers to help you every step of the way. Get started here. –

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South Fork Wind just became the US’s first complete utility-scale offshore wind farm

Baua Electric

Danish renewables giant Ørsted and Boston-based energy provider Eversource developed the 132-megawatt (MW) South Fork Wind. Your personalized solar quotes are easy to compare online and you’ll get access to unbiased Energy Advisers to help you every step of the way. Get started here. –

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Video Friday: ChatSpot

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The process of getting Spot to talk with a personality is very cool, but this is also something that should be done very carefully: Spot is a tool, and although it may sound like it thinks and feels, it absolutely doesn’t. Boston Dynamics ] Shhh. Just something to keep in mind as more Spots (and other robots) make it out into the wild.

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Tiny Exploding Houses Promoted 18th-Century Lightning Rods

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He published the sentry box experiment in his book, Experiments and Observations on Electricity , which was issued in London in 1751 and translated and published in France the following year. But he was fighting religious beliefs, personal grudges, and simple fear.

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