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Video Friday: Humanoids Get a Job

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Agility has been working with GXO for a bit now, but the big news here (and it IS big news) is that Agility’s Digit robots at GXO now represent the first formal commercial deployment of humanoid robots. [ You had one job, e-stop person! WVUIRL ] This is a demo of cutting wood with a saw. CARMEN ] via [ UCSD ] Thanks, Ioana!

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Video Friday: Tap Finger, Move Mountain

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Universal Robots ] IREX is taking place in Japan right now, and here’s a demo of Kaleido, a humanoid robot from Kawasaki. MIT CSAIL ] If you look in the background of this video, there’s a person wearing an exoskeleton controlling the robot in the foreground. Available for preorder now. Weilan ] via [ ModernExpress ]

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EAA National Board nominations from across North America

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The end of ownership usually results in used sales, which increases affordability and adoption. I set up the partnership between ChargePoint and Solar Smart Living and helped many commercial and residential customers make the transition to electric charging. Personally meeting Sandy Munro to exchange ideas of the future of BEVs.

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EAA National Board nominations from across North America

Electric Auto Association

The end of ownership usually results in used sales, which increases affordability and adoption. I set up the partnership between ChargePoint and Solar Smart Living and helped many commercial and residential customers make the transition to electric charging. Personally meeting Sandy Munro to exchange ideas of the future of BEVs.

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Why Haven't Hoverbikes Taken Off?

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Their demos and PR campaigns have continued to whet the public’s appetite for hoverbikes, but there are some solid reasons why the nascent hoverbike industry has yet to get airborne. For larger aircraft like the big Boeing commercial jets and larger helicopters, the standard is even more stringent. It’s one in one billion flight hours.”

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

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I do want to set some expectations with respect to our Optimus robot… Last year was just a person in a robot suit, but we’ve come a long way, and compared to that, it’s going to be very impressive.” Tesla Bot Development Platform Demo. Tesla Bot Latest Generation Demo. Tesla These quotes are all from Musk. “I

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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Networks that link personal computers in offices. The ideas developed at PARC found their way into a number of commercial products, companies, and publications, shown here as leafy branches. If it was a personal computer, you had to be able to build 100.” Colorful weather maps on TV news programs. Laser printers.

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