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Video Friday: Robotics After Hours

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Watch this video until the end to see a drone fly a trajectory to end up in a perching pose underneath a demo line and upside-down! YouTube ] The Apellix Opus X8 Softwash (SW) system cleaning the University of Florida Shands Hospital building in Jacksonville, Florida. GRVC ] This finger motion pleases me. Brain Lab ] Thanks, Poramate!

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Generating Power on Earth From the Coldness of Deep Space

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But we have demonstrated that by directly using power generated by the cold universe, we can chill water to cool buildings by as much as 5 ºC during the day without electricity and light the night without wires or batteries. By connecting a TEG between a hot reservoir and a cold one, the heat differential is captured as electricity.

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Artemis II Will Send Astronauts Around the Moon

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is recovering technical capabilities it lost two or three generations ago and is on track to returning astronauts to the moon,” says Bleddyn Bowen , associate professor at the University of Leicester, in England. “It S-Band and X-band radios will connect Gateway with vehicles on the lunar surface, such as the Starship.

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Europe Expands Virtual Borders To Thwart Migrants

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Europe’s 125,000 irregular immigrants in 2019 also number fewer per capita than irregular immigrants to the United States, which has just three quarters the population of the European Union yet reported more than 1 million irregular immigrants at its borders in 2019. Member States,” says geographer. Social scientist.

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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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The ARPANET Is Born Kahn wasn’t the only one thinking about connecting disparate computers in the 1960s. In 1965, Larry Roberts, then at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory , connected one computer in Massachusetts to another in California over a telephone line. 1962 and Ph.D. 1962 and Ph.D.

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Flight Simulator Gave Birth to 3D Video-Game Graphics

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Microsoft Flight Simulator: A History youtube.com A passion for flight Bruce Artwick studied electrical engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, yet he found time to pursue a dream many teenagers think about but few fulfill: He learned to fly. 1984) modeled the entire United States, Microsoft Flight Simulator 3.0

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How to Prevent Blackouts by Packetizing the Power Grid

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Similar mismatches in supply and demand contributed to massive cascading blackouts in August 2003 in the northeastern United States and Canada, in July 2012 in India , and in March 2019 in Venezuela. Ideally, you’d want farms in these areas to use greener, grid-connected electric pumps rather than diesel ones.