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Firefighting, one of the nation’s most tradition-bound professions, is poised for an influx of eccentric assistants. They range from contraptions the size of a toy wagon to two-ton beasts that resemble military tanks and can blast out 2,500 gallons of water per minute.
At a time when more than 3,000 Americans die in fires each year—including an average of 80 firefighters—these high-tech devices can enter burning buildings too hot for human survival. They can penetrate smoke too toxic for human lungs.
There are plenty of reasons to want to learn electrical engineering . For starters, you'll learn the fundamentals to build IRL Iron Man suits and maybe save your city from aliens .
If you want to keep your hands busy, you can create your very own mini robots and copters with these kits from Geeek Club. Each one includes all the tools and parts you need to create different robots, and best of all, they're on sale.
"Badger Technologies' retail automation solutions close important data gaps that prevent retailers from getting an accurate picture of shelf conditions, buying trends and customer preferences," says William (BJ) Santiago, CEO of Badger Technologies.
This is an important milestone for a technology that's primarily been marketed for grocery retailers but that developers hope will spread to brick-and-mortar retailers of various kinds.
The uncanny valley is the scientific explanation for why we all find clowns or corpses creepy. And just when we thought nothing could be more alarming than clowns, scientists have found an even uncannier way to freak us out.
New research finds that there is something even creepier than the uncanny valley: clones. Scientists now predict that when convincing humanoid robots with identical faces are launched, we are all going to panic.
Here are five things in technology that happened this past week and how they affect your business. Did you miss them?
1 —Employees are not showing up to work, and employers are replacing them with robots.
This article has more than a dozen examples of small and large companies taking advantage of lower tech costs to replace workers with automation. The tech companies won't admit this and neither will the employers. But it's happening.
A couple walking the 600 block of Hyman Avenue on Thursday afternoon glanced into a storefront, then both stopped in their tracks, bug-eyed — pointing and taking a step away. They stared for a few moments, then walked on shaking their heads and grinning.
Inside, three of artist Ajax Axe's robots were wandering clumsily around the bright-lit art gallery, bumping into walls and each other — going about their inhuman business.
The team at Boston Dynamics has once again proved its robots can dance, this time with moves like Jagger.
The Waltham-based company released a video on Friday showing four of its Spot robots recreating the music video to "Start Me Up," a hit song by The Rolling Stones.
China has enlisted the help of robots to aid COVID-19 countermeasures set to be implemented during the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games.
An ice hockey game at Wukesong Arena is set to act as a trial run, with organisers planning to deploy 30 robots to help stage the event.
SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Notre Dame Professor Yasemin Ozkan-Aydin has spent fifteen years working in robotics, though despite the mechanical inclination, she takes much of her inspiration from nature- like how centipedes travel and how ants work together to complete tasks, using their legs.
The goats create a natural firebreak by munching through flammable vegetation. Read more about these firefighting… https://t.co/bqsz30nIDB wef (from Geneva, Switzerland) Sun Oct 31 10:00:01 +0000 2021
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These clever robots are the next generation of firefighting tools. https://t.co/uHRdFtwies sciam (from New York City) Fri Oct 29 17:30:00 +0000 2021
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TRUTH OF THE DIVINE, by Lindsay Ellis. (St. Martin's, $28.99.) In this follow-up to Ellis's debut, "Axiom's End," the United States is split over whether to extend rights to a highly intelligent extraterrestrial species when another, more dangerous alien species lands on Earth.
In 2019, the Parkes radio telescope in Parkes, Australia, detected a strange signal that has since been explained. Yury Prokopenko/Getty Images hide caption
A mysterious signal that appeared to be emanating from the closest star to our own sun put scientists on a nearly yearlong hunt to track down its origin.
Last fall, a colleague of Sofia Sheikh's posted a message in her group's Slack channel, where members of the Breakthrough Listen Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) collaboration talk about the radio telescope signals they're analyzing for possible signs of communications from
The message was posted by a student studying radio telescope data that was originally taken to monitor stellar flares emitted by the star Proxima Centauri. He had picked up a single unusual signal, and Sheikh didn't know what to make of it.
TORONTO, Ontario ( CTV Network ) — A mysterious radio signal from a nearby star system that was detected in 2019 isn't coming from aliens, scientists say.
Instead, the signal was likely caused by interference from Earth, according to two papers published Wednesday in the journal Nature Astronomy.
In June of 2017, painter Jennifer Gillooly Cahoon opened up the Heartspot Art Center and Gallery in an East Providence shopping district.
Among other accolades, it was voted "Best Gallery" in ProJo (Providence Journal) Reader's Choice award every year from 2018-2021, and noted as "Best Gallery in the East Bay," in Best of Rhode Island, in 2019, 2020 and 2021.
Some horror films evoke the kind of autumnal, chilling and strangely comforting atmosphere that can be associated with the best horror films and, by extension, Halloween itself.
Across numerous streaming services, it is easier than ever to access horror films. As soon as someone opens Netflix, they're greeted with an endless array of movie posters, most of them advertising seemingly generic movies that have sometimes skipped theaters altogether.
Yesterday, I joined The First Lady of the Republic Ghana, H.E. @RAkufoAddo, Hon. Mark Assibey Yeboah and other dign… https://t.co/dwlt97AuOD pyboamah (from Accra, Ghana) Fri Oct 29 17:31:57 +0000 2021
China's securities regulator on Saturday published rules for initial public offerings, refinancing and supervision… https://t.co/BTHKkGQvWI Echinanews (from Beijing) Sun Oct 31 05:15:00 +0000 2021
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Four astronauts are headed to the International Space Station (ISS) this Halloween (Oct. 31), where they'll spend six months conducting research for scientists back on Earth.
NASA astronauts Raja Chari, who will command the mission, Tom Marshburn and Kayla Barron, along with European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Matthias Maurer, make up the quartet of astronauts that will join the Expedition 65 crew already on board the space station.
"For example, you may have to travel to Texas just to get to your space launch," said Battleface CEO Sasha Gainullin. "So, standard travel insurance is still an important part of your journey from the time you leave home to the time you come back."
When are astronauts not astronauts? When they pay their own way into space, says NASA. But the growing overlap between exploration and adventure travel is redefining both categories.
I n a weightless, microgravity environment like space, what do ability and disability look like? How can someone with partial sight or impaired mobility navigate in a confined space like the space station?
The Mission: AstroAccess project aims to answer these questions, starting with a historic parabolic flight that took off from Long Beach on Oct. 17, 2021.
The co-chairs of the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics of the U.S.
The advocacy of Representatives Don Beyer and Eddie Bernice Johnson for nukes in space was strongly criticized in a subsequent interview by Bruce Gagnon, coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space.
Featured Article: " A Future for People With Disabilities in Outer Space Takes Flight " by Amanda Morris
Recently, 12 passengers with disabilities traveled aboard a parabolic flight in an experiment testing how people with disabilities would fare in a zero-gravity environment.
The co-chairs of the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics of the U.S.
The advocacy of Representatives Don Beyer and Eddie Bernice Johnson for nukes in space was strongly criticized in a subsequent interview by Bruce Gagnon, coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has appointed Global Guardian as its chosen International Medical Evacuation Services provider for Johnson Space Center (JSC)—the center of human space exploration—effective October 1, 2021 until September 30, 2023.
The global leader in space exploration, NASA has a diverse workforce of just under 18,000 civil servants and a responsibility for the safety and wellbeing of their employees, many of whom are employed at JSC.
The CEO and founder of Space Perspective, Jane Poynter, talks to us about launching space travel's very first luxury experience.
The commercial space race has been dominated by headlines from Bezos, Branson and Musk . Their rocket ships herald a new era in space flight and tourism for a select few.
The Shelton family has been sending roses to mission control for every Shuttle mission since 1988. Now that NASA… https://t.co/MA5aphFhlq SpaceBrendan (from Orlando, FL) Fri Oct 29 13:12:06 +0000 2021
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has emerged from its first "solar conjunction" blackout and gotten back to work on the Red Planet. It's even phoned home with its first Mars photos since reawakening.
The car-sized Perseverance and other Mars spacecraft had to stand down for about two weeks recently when the Red Planet slipped behind the sun from Earth's perspective.
Future Mars astronauts could make rocket fuel on the Red Planet using air, water and sunlight, a new study finds. The technology could fuel the astronauts' flights back to Earth.
Making rocket fuel on Mars instead of shipping it from Earth could not only save billions of dollars, but it could also generate tons of oxygen to help people exploring Mars breathe, scientists added.
Artificial intelligence could be a huge help to Mars rovers like NASA’s Curiosity or Perseverance, but first these A.I. systems need to be trained on what to look for.
The AI4Mars project was launched last year , and users have already labeled nearly half a million images to help develop the Soil Property and Object Classification (SPOC) algorithm.
However, it can not get this data back to Earth on its own. Instead, it requires the help of orbiters such as the European Space Agency's (ESA) Mars Express. Why?
Rovers use these radios to send their data up to Mars's roaming orbiters, which then forward it back to Earth where scientists eagerly await to receive it and analyze it.
Although it was late summer when we acquired this image (2010), you can see frost within the gully alcoves. These alcoves are on the poleward facing crater wall and so spend much of the time in shadow. This allows the frost to survive.
The full-image shows that the opposite (south-facing) wall has similar gullies, but no frost during this season. Scientists are analyzing many images like this in order to try and answer the broader question of whether liquid water is responsible for the these gullies or not.
Bruce Banerdt has the job he's been dreaming of since he was a child growing up in the California desert, watching Neil Armstrong's "giant leap for mankind" on TV. "I always wanted to go to space," he says.
Not that Banerdt is an astronaut. He's principal investigator for a Mars mission. Astronauts, he realised growing up, spend a lot of time running other people's experiments.
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What the Perseverance rover's quiet landing reveals about meteor strikes on Mars – https://t.co/3GfdZ1llrG https://t.co/OIVBvWVgoA HiRISE (from Mars) Thu Oct 28 23:00:13 +0000 2021
Perseverance rover snaps stunning images of Mars after communications blackout https://t.co/JmmXG7ulV6 LiveScience (from NYC) Thu Oct 28 16:55:50 +0000 2021
If a rover lands on Mars and there is nobody to detect it, does it make a sound? Actually, InSight was listening du… https://t.co/NEbWMc5hH9 NatureAstronomy (from London, England) Thu Oct 28 15:05:32 +0000 2021
The first findings have now been accepted for publication in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society . The lead author is Dr. Jessymol Thomas, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO).
The discovery presented in the paper was made from an extensive and detailed light-curve obtained over almost a year by dedicated amateurs around the globe who are part of the AAVSO (American Association of Variable Star Observers).
A black hole swallowed the original Fortnite map and ushered in Chapter 2, and data miners have discovered it could also return to mark the end of Season 8 and introduce Chapter 3.
Back in October 2019, Season 10 concluded with a destructive event that took Fortnite offline and had players staring at a black hole on-screen for almost two days. When the black hole vanished, players dropped into the brand-new Chapter 2, Season 1.
Can enough money ever fix the NHS? Rishi Sunak is the latest in a long line of Chancellors to promise increased spending for the health service, after the Government committed a further £5.9bn.
Underlying these acute problems are deeper structural issues. Before the pandemic, the health service was experiencing its worst performance against waiting times since they were set by the last Labour Government in 2007.
Councillors have called for a focus on solving problems rather than infighting and making excuses after it emerged there was a £1million blackhole chiefs didn't know about.
Last Thursday's meeting, which included heated debate, saw councillors call for an end to infighting and more respect shown to each other, as the role of officers and councillors was also called into question.
Even before the world came to an abrupt halt in March 2020, domestic racing in Britain was facing a crisis, with five high-profile races not set to run that year due to monetary concerns. Top of the list was the iconic Lincoln GP.
First run in 1956, the fabled race that finishes atop the cobbled Michaelgate climb had lost its title sponsorship Chestnut Homes and faced a funding blackhole of £20,000 to run both the male and female races.
Christopher Nolan's Interstellar is considered a cinematic marvel and is often regarded as one of the finer films from the last decade.
However, this 2014 sci-fi drama, starring Matthew McConaughey, Jessica Chastain, and Anne Hathaway, also happens to be one of the most confusing films ever made and we aren't the only ones who think so.
Blackhole with warped #accretiondisc discovered @RoyalAstroSoc https://t.co/uqKVSLwNsS physorg_com Wed Oct 27 16:52:47 +0000 2021
