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RoboCup Class Image
Have you ever been awed by the pageantry of the parade of nations in the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games? Then this photograph, that includes additional than 100 Nao programmable educational robots, two Pepper humanoid assistive robots, and their human handlers, should really leave you equally impressed. It was taken at the close of this year’s RoboCup 2022 in Bangkok. Following two several years all through which the RoboCup was scuttled by the world-wide pandemic, the organizers were ready to deliver jointly 13 robotic groups from all over the world (with a few groups signing up for in remotely) to participate in the automaton online games. The spirit of the gathering was captured in this graphic, which, according to RoboCup organizers, shows robots with a merged market value of roughly US $1 million.
Patrick Göttsch and Thomas Reinhardt
Longest-Distance Phone calls
When you are traveling to faraway locations, it’s comforting to know that you can stay in make contact with with the folks back again house, no matter how considerably you roam. However, it is astonishingly straightforward to conclude up somewhere that has poor mobile reception or none to communicate of. That’s because only about 10 % of the world’s surface is in mobile protection zones. But in April 2022, a firm named Lynk introduced Lynk Tower 1, poised to be the world’s to start with professional satellite mobile tower, into area. The mobile tower, pictured in this article, is said to be the to start with of four that Lynk programs to launch into orbit this calendar year. When they are in put and contracts with terrestrial cellular service suppliers are set up, the 4 billion individuals who hardly ever have ample cellular reception will eventually be capable to reply in the plural when asked “How a lot of bars you got?”
Lynk World
Self-Made Manufacturing
What is additional
meta than employing a 3D printer to make components for a 3D printer? This gadget seems like a bunch of different tubes packaged together. But it is actually a solitary device that was created that way inside of a 3D printer. It is a precision-engineered warmth exchanger—optimized to improve the cooling of shielding gasoline that keeps impurities from fouling the additive manufacturing system that takes place inside of an industrial 3D printer. No paper jams below.
Hyperganic
None the Even worse for Wearable
How are we to gain from the bodily and cognitive enhancements that digital wearables could someday supply if every day areas of human life this sort of as breaking a sweat are hazardous to these equipment? Not to fear. In a new paper, a investigate team at the College of California, Los Angeles, noted that it has the issue licked. They developed a human-equipment interface that is impervious to moisture. And, as if becoming waterproof weren’t adequate, the 4-button device has been engineered to make ample electric powered existing to electricity its own operation when any of the buttons is pressed. So, it can go just about anyplace we go, with no issues about spills, splashes, sweat, or spent batteries.
JUN CHEN Investigation Group/UCLA