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SpaceX eyes mobile connectivity market on eve of launching 60 more Starlink satellites

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A Falcon 9 rocket stands on pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station ahead of the next launch of Starlink internet satellites. Credit: Steven Young/Spaceflight Now The next 60 Starlink internet satellites are awaiting a ride from Cape Canaveral into space aboard a Falcon 9 rocket Tuesday night as SpaceX seeks regulatory authority to …

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Researchers introduce a new generation of tiny, agile drones

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Insects’ remarkable acrobatic traits help them navigate the aerial world, with all of its wind gusts, obstacles, and general uncertainty. Image: courtesy of Kevin Yufeng Chen By Daniel Ackerman If you’ve ever swatted a mosquito away from your face, only to have it return again (and again and again), you know that insects can be …

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Introducing Eliza Kosoy; E-liza Dolls

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Eliza Kosoy is a Ph.D Student at UC Berkeley. She studied mathematics in college and then worked for Prof. Joshua Tenenbaum at MIT in his computational cognitive science lab. She then started on a Ph.D at UC Berkeley working with Professor Alison Gopnik in 2018. She is most proud of receiving funding and winning an …

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#CYBATHLON2020GlobalEdition winners of the powered leg prosthesis race (with interview)

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Winning team Circleg Finishing this series of CYBATHLON 2020 winners, today we feature the victory of the startup Circleg from Switzerland. We also had the chance to interview them (see the end of this post). In this race, pilots wearing a leg prosthesis from five teams had to complete a circuit using any kind of …

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The Year Of The SPAC And What It Means For Hardware

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CBS MarketWatch declared 2020: The Year of the SPAC (Special Purpose Acquisition Corporation). A record 219 companies went public through this fundraising vehicle that uses a reverse merger with an existing private business to create a publicly-listed entity. This accounted for more than $73 billion dollars of investment, providing private equity startups a new outlet …

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Who are the Visionary companies in robotics? See the 2020 SVR Industry Award winners

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These Visionary companies have a big idea and are well on their way to achieving it, although it isn’t always an easy road for any really innovative technology. In the case of Cruise, that meant testing self driving vehicles on the streets of San Francisco, one of the hardest driving environments in the world. Some …

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What does Innovation look like in robotics? See the SVR 2020 Industry Award winners

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Self-driving vehicles would not be possible without sensors and so it’s not surprising to see two small new sensors in the 2020 Silicon Valley Robotics ‘Good Robot’ Innovation Awards, the Velabit from Velodyne and the nanoScan3 from SICK. We showcase three other innovations in component technology, the FHA-C with Integrated Servo Drive from Harmonic Drive, …

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#CYBATHLON2020GlobalEdition winners of the powered wheelchair race (with interview + story of pilot)

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Winning team: HSR Enhanced with pilot Florian Hauser In continuation to this series of CYBATHLON 2020 winners, today we feature the victory of the HSR Enhanced team from the Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences (OST). In addition, we interviewed their team leader of this year, Christian Bermes. In this race, pilots with a severe …

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#CYBATHLON2020GlobalEdition winners of the powered exoskeleton race (with interview)

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Winning team: Angel Robotics with pilot Byeong-Uk Kim The last edition of CYBATHLON took place on 13-14 November, 2020. This competition, created by ETH Zurich and run as a non-profit project, aims to advance in the research and development of assistive technology by involving developers, people with disabilities, and the general public. We had the …

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