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Video Friday: Tiny Robot Bug Hops and Jumps

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But to engineers at the University of California San Diego, this game was an inspiration, suggesting that measuring tape could become a great material for a robotic gripper. University of California San Diego ] I enjoyed the Murderbot books, and the trailer for the TV show actually looks not terrible. RIVR ] And now, this.

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Video Friday: RIVR Delivers Your Package

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University of Zurich (UZH) ] Unitree releases Dex5 dexterous hand. This powerful combination allows the robot to autonomously perform a wide range of tasks across diverse settings, including hotels, office buildings, restaurants, retail spaces, and healthcare facilities. No map, no IMU, no SLAM!

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Video Friday: Robots for Extreme Environments

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And heres a bit more on how it was done, mostly with arms from Universal Robots. [ University of Bath ] Whenever I see a soft robot, I have to ask, okay, but how soft is it really? Nature Communications ] via [ Collaborative Robotics Laboratory, University of Coimbra ] Thanks, Pedro!

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Video Friday: Hopping on One Robotic Leg

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based robotics innovation company dedicated to building commercially scalable, reliable and safe robotic solutions for real-world applications. University of Michigan Robotics ] What’s the Trick? Please send us your events for inclusion. We were proud to be a finalist for Best Expo Demo and participate in the Robot Parade.

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Cepsa to invest €3B in Andalusia to build the largest green hydrogen hub in Europe; additional €2B for renewable power

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The investment is the biggest milestone to date of Cepsa’s Positive Motion energy transition plan to lead sustainable mobility and the production of green hydrogen and advanced biofuels in Spain and Portugal this decade. The company will build two plants with a total capacity of 2 GW to produce green hydrogen.

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BMW opens new Shanghai R&D center; focus on human-machine interaction and hardware-software integration

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BMW’s software development department was established in 2002 and is now located in Mountain View (USA), Lisbon and Porto (Portugal), Munich and Ulm (Germany), Tokyo (Japan) and Shanghai, Beijing and Nanjing (China), with more than 8,000 software specialists worldwide.

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Study finds that EV-specific factors rather than socio-demographic variables better predictors of EV uptake

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Data came from Australia; Austria; Belgium; Canada; China; Croatia; the Czech Republic; Denmark; Estonia; Finland; France; Greece; Germany; Iceland; Ireland; Israel; Italy; Japan; the Netherlands; New Zealand; Norway; Poland; Portugal; Slovenia; Spain; Sweden; Switzerland; Turkey; the United Kingdom, and the United States.