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Video Friday: Biological End Effectors

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It increases efficiency during workload fluctuations and enables the efficient completion of tasks, while navigating safely in various lab settings and environments. Sanctuary ] This wheelchair tennis-playing robot from Georgia Tech is named ESTHER, for (Experimental Sport Tennis wHEelchair Robot). Squishy Robotics ]

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Video Friday: Medusai

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Cybathlon Challenges : 2 February 2024, ZURICH Eurobot Open 2024 : 8–11 May 2024, LA ROCHE-SUR-YON, FRANCE ICRA 2024 : 13–17 May 2024, YOKOHAMA, JAPAN RoboCup 2024 : 17–22 July 2024, EINDHOVEN, NETHERLANDS Enjoy today’s videos! medusai ] via [ Georgia Tech ] Thanks, Gil! Please send us your events for inclusion.

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Video Friday: Ingenuity’s 50th Flight

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JPL ] Georgia Tech researchers have recently created a soft rotary motor using liquid metal, compliant magnetic composites, and silicone polymers. DARPA’s Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency (RACER) program recently conducted its third experiment to assess the performance of off-road unmanned vehicles.

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Michelin 2048 goals: tires made with 80% sustainable material and 100% tire recycling

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The project was selected by France’s Agency for the Environment and Energy Management (ADEME) to receive €14.7 Lehigh operates the world’s largest MRP manufacturing plant in Tucker, Georgia, with an annual production capacity of 54,000 tonnes. One month’s total energy consumption of France. supertankers), or 54,000 GWh.

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IEEE Celebrates Engineering Pioneers and Emerging Technologies

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The summit kicked off on 4 May at the Georgia Aquarium with a reception and panel discussion on climate change and sustainability, moderated by Saifur Rahman , IEEE president and CEO. It’s human frailty being replicated in the online environment. I attended this year’s events, held on 4 and 5 May in Atlanta. Allen Medal.

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Video Friday: Acrobot Error

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Eurobot Open 2024 : 8–11 May 2024, LA ROCHE-SUR-YON, FRANCE ICRA 2024 : 13–17 May 2024, YOKOHAMA, JAPAN Enjoy today’s videos! You had me at “wormlike, limbless robots.” [ GitHub ] via [ Georgia Tech ] Filmed in July 2017, this video shows us using Atlas to put out a “fire” on our loading dock. Acrobotics ] Thanks, Elizabeth!

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DOE Joint Genome Institute approves 41 projects for 2012 Community Sequencing Program; climate, environment and bioenergy feedstocks

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Considered to be among the harshest and most extreme environments on the planet with low water and nutrient levels paired with high salt and ultraviolet radiation levels, the team seeks to understand how the carbon cycle plays out in this ecosystem. Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), France. INRA, France.