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Video Friday: Acrobot Error

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Robot built by Boston Dynamics for the DARPA Robotics Challenge in 2013. Boston Dynamics ] This is pretty cool: BruBotics is testing their self-healing robotics gripper technology on commercial grippers from Festo. This robot is built at a cost of 50 euros for patients who are not financially independent to get better treatment. [

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Video Friday: Loco-Manipulation

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In this work, we present LocoMan, a dexterous quadrupedal robot with a novel morphology to perform versatile manipulation in diverse constrained environments. Boston Dynamics ] Here’s some video of Field AI’s robots operating in relatively complex and unstructured environments without prior maps. CMU ] Thanks, Changyi!

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Video Friday: Extreme Off-Road

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We present demonstrations of zero-shot transfer to the RGB-only observations of the real world on a robot equipped with a low-cost, off-the-shelf color camera. [ Boston Dynamics ] Wing drone deliveries of NHS blood samples are now underway in London between Guy’s and St Thomas’ hospitals.

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Spirit Airlines Is on Shaky Footing After Judge Blocks JetBlue Deal

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Spirit Airlines, once a fast-growing low-cost carrier, is struggling to convince investors that it has a clear path forward after an antitrust ruling blocked the sale of the company to JetBlue Airways. In my eyes, the worst-case scenario is that Spirit disappears and we’re left with a less competitive environment,” Dr. Tan said.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Low Cost Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing of Reusable Sorbents for Energy and Water Industries, $150,000 Qualification of SAS4A/SASSYS-1 for Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Authorization and Licensing, $674,484 Advanced Reactor Concepts LLC, Chevy Chase, Md. Touchstone Research Laboratory, Triadelphia, W. El Centro, Calif. Louisville, Colo.

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Years Later, Alphabet’s Everyday Robots Have Made Some Progress

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It's less of a dig and more of an acknowledgement that getting mobile manipulators to usefully operate in semi-structured environments has been, and continues to be, a huge challenge. It might be effective when constrained to a research environment, but fundamentally, "platform" typically means "getting it to do (commercially?)

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The Coming Construction Boom

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Cities including Boston and New York are already spending substantial sums on projects to hold back the sea, which has begun encroaching in subways and road tunnels over the last 10 years. Now, with 3D printing along with general-form geometric CAD, new shapes will become possible even for low-cost buildings.

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