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What's the robot equivalent of Rocky Balboa running up the 72 stone steps leading to the entranceway of the Philadelphia Museum of Art? It could well be the sight of Agility Robotics' biped robot, Digit, climbing up a wet, muddy, and not-all-that-grippable grassy hill at the company's new headquarters in Tangent, Oregon.
While the company's new video is partly designed to show off this new headquarters, it also demonstrates just how far robotics technology has progressed. If Rocky's famous climb signifies the everyman overcoming great odds, Agility Robotics' recent video is a reminder of just how impressively far robots have traveled in being able to traverse the real world. Both figuratively and literally. |
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As SpaceX's constellation of small Starlink internet satellites continues to grow, so does the company's broadband service.
Already available in parts of the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. via broadband beamed from space, SpaceX has just revealed that the service, which is currently in beta, will launch in western Germany and New Zealand's South Island in the coming weeks.
Coverage will also be expanded beyond southern England to northern England, and also to parts of Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. |
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If you thought you were getting good with your drone by flying it through an open window without crashing, then check out this remarkable footage captured by filmmaker and expert drone pilot Jay Christensen of Minnesota-based Rally Studios.
The stunning sequence, shot at Bryant Lake Bowl and Theater in Minneapolis, was captured with a first-person-view (FPV) Cinewhoop quadcopter, a type of drone that's smaller and more stable than many regular FPV devices. It's used, as the name suggests, to capture cinematic footage.
The film starts with an aerial shot outside the bowling alley before swooping in through the door and out over the bowling lanes. But that's not all. Demonstrating astonishing skills to create the 90-second clip, the footage takes you behind the bowling lanes and through the machinery that puts the pins down, before continuing with a grand tour of the entertainment facility. |
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