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Video Friday: Tap Finger, Move Mountain

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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. Gravis Robotics ] Universal Robots introduced the UR30 at IREX, which can lift 30kg- not the 63.5kg that it says on the tire, that’s the weight of the UR30 itself. Available for preorder now.

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Video Friday: Grip Anything

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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 University of Washington team created a new tool that can design a 3D-printable passive gripper and calculate the best path to pick up an object. University of Leeds ] Thanks Chengxu!

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What Robotics Experts Think of Tesla’s Optimus Robot

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After a year of speculation based on little more than a person in a robot suit combined with some optimistic assertions made by Tesla CEO Elon Musk , many roboticists tuned in to the event livestream (or attended in person) to see what Tesla’s approach to humanoid robotics would turn out to be. Assistant Professor, University of Toronto.

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Video Friday: Co-Expression

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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. Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. Stanford ] I’m sorry, but the world does not need more drummers.

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Video Friday: No Pilot Needed

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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. Four-wheel steering, bidirectional design, and active suspension are some of the features integrated into the Zoox robotaxi to ensure every ride is a smooth ride. Zoox ] Thanks, Whitney!

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LG Chem hosts open innovation contest for start-ups with new battery technologies

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The fields of application are separated into four categories: battery material, battery management and control, design, manufacturing and processing and recycle and regeneration. The selected companies will then be invited to Demo Day in Silicon Valley around February of next year to present their business plans.

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Video Friday: Robotics After Hours

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We’ll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months; here's what we have so far ( send us your events !): Watch this video until the end to see a drone fly a trajectory to end up in a perching pose underneath a demo line and upside-down! GRVC ] This finger motion pleases me.

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