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Video Friday: Tap Finger, Move Mountain

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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. Universal Robots ] IREX is taking place in Japan right now, and here’s a demo of Kaleido, a humanoid robot from Kawasaki. Available for preorder now.

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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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The Mythical Non-Roboticist

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Getting robotics to work at all is often at the very limit of what a person can reason about, and requires the flexibility to employ whatever heuristic might work for your special problem. That feels universal enough that I’m tempted to call it Holson’s Law of Tolerable API Design. As I well know from personal experience.

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EAA National Board nominations from across North America

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He has a 34-year career as a journalist, advertiser, marketer, publicist, event planner, teacher, and fundraiser for-profit and not-for-profit organizations including Motorola, Business Marketing Association, and Michigan State University. Studying "smart grids" with emphasis on co-joining BEVs with houses and commercial buildings.

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EAA National Board nominations from across North America

Electric Auto Association

He has a 34-year career as a journalist, advertiser, marketer, publicist, event planner, teacher, and fundraiser for-profit and not-for-profit organizations including Motorola, Business Marketing Association, and Michigan State University. Studying "smart grids" with emphasis on co-joining BEVs with houses and commercial buildings.

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The Do-or-Die Moments That Determined the Fate of the Internet

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Several of these events, such as the first public demo of the ARPANET in 1972, or the mid-1980s conferences now known as Interop, alerted experts to new technologies, and, in some cases, altered the balance between competing approaches. The first node of the ARPANET was installed at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1969.

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The Rise of Groupware

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But they are the outgrowth of years of hard work done before the Internet became a thing, when there was a thorny problem: How could people collaborate effectively when everyone’s using a stand-alone personal computer? The new personal-computing technologies clearly needed to do more to foster collaboration.