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Stanford researchers develop new electrolysis system to split seawater into hydrogen and oxygen

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Existing water-splitting methods rely on highly purified water—a precious resource and costly to produce. Electrolysis of water to generate hydrogen fuel is an attractive renewable energy storage technology. Electrolysis of water to generate hydrogen fuel is an attractive renewable energy storage technology.

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What Robotics Experts Think of Tesla’s Optimus Robot

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What excites me is the idea of cheap and accessible hardware! In the brief demo, they showed it had a reasonably high loading capacity (holding plant-watering water cans, and lifting bars of aluminum in the factory). Also, doing a live demo without a tether (safety catch rope) is braver than people know.

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Europe Expands Virtual Borders To Thwart Migrants

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If it were legal to deliver rescued migrants to Libya, it would be as cheap as sending rescue boats a few extra kilometers south instead of east. Now, Frontex is refocusing its resources from shipboard patrols to aerial and remote sensing, according to its. percent to €543 million in 2021. migration control and security pacts.

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ONR developing offensive autonomous swarming capability for unmanned surface vehicles; adapting JPL’s CARACaS

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In a 2008 brief on CARACaS, JPL engineers noted that the software was potentially applicable to diverse robotic systems that could include aircraft, spacecraft, ground vehicles, surface water vessels, and/or underwater vessels. —Adm. Jonathan Greenert, chief of naval operations. —Chief of Naval Research Rear Adm. Matthew Klunder.

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For Better or Worse, Tesla Bot Is Exactly What We Expected

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Tesla Bot Development Platform Demo. Tesla showed videos of the robot watering plants, carrying a box, and picking up a metal bar at a factory. Tesla After the very brief live demo, Musk showed some video clips of the prototype robot doing other things (starting at 19:30 in the livestream). Tesla Bot Latest Generation Demo.

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