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Roskill: Niobium industry looking for a future beyond steel; Li-ion batteries a possibility

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Niobium consumption is driven by GDP but also by the regulatory environment as microalloying enhances construction safety. As one of the indications of industry interest in the potential for niobium and batteries, the topic of the Charles Hatchett Award Seminar 2019 was the opportunity for niobium in batteries. Griffith et al.

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Video Friday: Punch-Out

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JPL ] Cassie Blue showcases its ability to navigate a moving walkway, a common yet challenging scenario in human environments. The proposed structure can simultaneously achieve high controllability on each DoF, long acceleration distance and high power required for jumping. The highest altitude achieved in this flight was 20 m.

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Video Friday: Beyond the Limit

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Starting from the technological building blocks of Atlas, Stretch has the mobility, power, and intelligence to automate the industry’s toughest challenges. Current robotic systems focus on avoiding unexpected contact, often relying on strategically placed environment sensors. Paper ] Thanks Samarth! Meet CSAIL’s machine friends. [

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Video Friday: Googly Eye

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Inspired by the adaptable nature of organic brains, researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have introduced a method for robust flight navigation agents to master vision-based fly-to-target tasks in intricate, unfamiliar environments. The first installment is focused on powered exoskeletons.

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Video Friday: Humanoid Soccer

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His four-legged and wheeled robot is able to change shape within seconds, overcome steps and navigate between indoor and outdoor environments. The leg uses motors, processors, and advanced artificial intelligence that all work together to give amputees more power to walk, stand-up, sit-down, and ascend and descend stairs and ramps.

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Video Friday: Robotics After Hours

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Boston Dynamics ] Power-line perching could be an easy way for urban drones to keep their batteries topped up, but landing on power lines can be tricky. We show the effectiveness of the proposed approach in learning a minimum time control task, respecting dynamics, actuators, and environment constraints. CMU RI ].

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Video Friday: Lunar Rover

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In December of 2021 at the mock lunar surface environment in JAXA’s Sagamihara Campus, the GITAI lunar robotic rover R1 conducted numerous tasks and mobility operations, successfully completing all planned tests. This is cool looking, but I'd need to know more about how this system can deal with an actual lunar environment, right?