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Video Friday: ReachBot

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ReachBot is a new concept for planetary exploration, consisting of a small body and long, lightweight extending arms loaded primarily in tension. Boston Dynamics ] Scientists at the University of Bristol have drawn on the design and life of a mysterious zooplankton to develop underwater robots. Panelists: Elliot W.

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Video Friday: ANYmals and Animals

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NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) are solidifying concepts for this proposed Mars Sample Return campaign. Designed and built at the Bio-Inspired and Medical Robotics Lab at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev by Nitzan Ben David and David Zarrouk. [ It is the latest in the family of the STAR robots. Robot Brains ].

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Video Friday: Ingenuity’s 50th Flight

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50 flights is 45 flights more than this little helicopter was designed for, which is bonkers. This demonstrates how the fully-soft rotary electromagnetic actuator can bridge the gap between the capabilities of traditional hard motors and novel soft actuator concepts. Paper ] via [ Sensing Technologies Laboratory ] Thanks, Noah!

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NASA testing new boundary layer ingesting (BLI) propulsor; 4-8% fuel burn savings over current advanced engines

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MIT and NASA engineers earlier proposed the D8 Series as one future aircraft design concept that uses boundary layer ingestion. If this new design and its enabling technologies can be made to work, the BLI propulsor will produce the required thrust with less propulsive power input. Hardin, Gregory Tillman, Om P.

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Volkswagen Group ERL working on more intuitive communications between driver, car and environment

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and the cloud—to be able ultimately to design a vehicle that can learn, predict and adapt to drivers. and the cloud—to be able ultimately to design a vehicle that can learn, predict and adapt to drivers. Sensor concepts and image processing. —Chuhee Lee. Autonomous driving. Voice user interface research.

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Former IEEE Chief Financial Officer Richard Schwartz Dies at 77

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He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in business administration from Iona University , in New Rochelle, N.Y. There he was responsible for designing and developing computer-controlled automated test equipment. Mancino earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 1951 from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J.

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