Category: Technology
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Swimming Robot Inspired by Ancient Blood-Sucking Parasite | CNET
The robot AgnathaX is modeled after the lamprey, a jawless blood-sucking fish that’s been largely unchanged by evolution for the past several hundred million years.
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GLOBALink | China’s Biomimetic Robot Dives up to 1,025 Meters in Test Swim | New China TV
A biomimetic robot can dive up to 1,025 meters! The robot with the shape of a manta ray, or devilfish created by Chinese researchers can flap its wings and slide underwater.
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Toyota Halts All Self-Driving E-Palette Vehicles After Olympic Village Accident | Reuters
Toyota Motor said on Friday it had suspended all self-driving e-Palette transportation pods at the Tokyo Paralympic Games village, a day after one of the vehicles collided with and injured a visually impaired pedestrian. Read Reuters
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Huge Open Water Swim GPS Test | Garmin, Apple, Wahoo, Polar, COROS, Suunto | DC Rainmaker
Here’s the biggest open water swim test on YouTube, with every brand of triathlete/open water swim watch, and a dozen current models. This round-up includes the most popular watches for triathletes and open water swimmers: – Apple Watch Series 6 – Apple Watch SE – COROS VERTIX 1 – COROS VERTIX 2 – Garmin Forerunner…
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Razer Helped Design a Trash Collecting Robot to Clean Up Plastic Pollution | CNET
Gaming giant Razer has partnered with a small company called Clearbot to help design an autonomous trash-collecting boat that can identify floating garbage in the water, catalog it and then collect it into a waste container. The collaboration is part of Razer’s Go Green with Razer initiative to help startups working on sustainability and green…
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Swimming Australia – Making Gold Medalists With Machine Learning | Amazon Web Services
Hear how Swimming Australia stood up a data lake on AWS, providing coaches with a detailed analysis of each swimmer’s performance, and in turn enabling them to extract peak performance in the pool.
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Swimming Robot Gives Fresh Insight Into Locomotion and Neuroscience | EPFL
Thanks to their swimming robot modeled after a lamprey, EPFL scientists may have discovered why some vertebrates are able to retain their locomotor capabilities after a spinal cord lesion. The finding could also help improve the performance of swimming robots used for search and rescue missions and for environmental monitoring.
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Wild – Discover your Swim Spot
Discover your favorite Swim Spot on Wild, the app for Wild Swimming. Available now on iOS and Android. https://swimwild.app
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