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2016
Tree-planting drones to speed up reforestation efforts
Planting trees in remote forest locations is a slow, laborious process that still relies on humans with shovels to do all the work. DroneSeed, a company based in the Pacific Northwest, wants to drastically modernize that process by employing squadrons of
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2016
Bosch doubles e-bike battery power and range
Citing e-biking as the hottest topic in the bicycle industry, Bosch revealed a new double battery pack at Eurobike 2016 last week. The DualBattery system puts double the capacity into Bosch's pedelec drives, taking electric-assist pedaling new distances.
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2016
Mercedes-Benz Vision Van concept dispatches drones for last-mile delivery
When it comes to making the concept of delivery drones a reality, using vans to handle the brunt of the work is an idea that has some merit. We saw some researchers float the idea a couple of years ago and it now appears Mercedes-Benz also sees some poten
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2016
Tapia robot claims to understand human emotions
Can robots eventually end up as our mates one day? Who knows, and that is one particular topic that has been approached many times in science fiction endeavors, be it in print or on the silver screen. Until that fateful day arrives, however, plenty of wor
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2016
IAF's Western Air Command places all bases under drone surveillance
The Indian Air Force's (IAF) premier Western Air Command (WAC) on Saturday declared that it was putting all of its bases under a 'continuous' surveillance by drones or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). This has been done to enhance the security cover in an
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2016
Volvo's autonomous truck navigates itself through a dark mine
Earlier in the year, Volvo unveiled a fully autonomous construction truck that it planned to test in underground mines and that it said would "revolutionize the mining industry." Today, it has revealed more details of the planned testing and released foot
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2016
MIT Invented a Camera That Can Read Closed Books
With help from their colleagues at the Georgia Institute of Technology, a team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a prototype imaging system that aims to read through closed books. In their recent study, the
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2016
NASA's OSIRIS-REx on its way to rendezvous and capture asteroid
NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sampling mission is on its way. At 7:05 pm EDT, the unmanned probe lifted off atop an Atlas/Centaur booster from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. According to NASA, the liftoff and orbital
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2016
US Army tests drones that sniff out clouds of chemical agents
Drones are proving their worth in dangerous situations we don't want to expose humans to by keeping an eye out for sharks, mines and methane leaks. Now a team from the US Army's Edgewood Chemical and Biological Center (ECBC) have tested a new pair of unma
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2016
Lowe's introduces LoweBot, a new autonomous in-store robot
"Hello, I'm NAVii. How can I help you?" This is how the store associate of the future may greet you. Starting in the fall, Lowe's shoppers in the San Francisco Bay Area will be greeted by autonomous robots. The LoweBot speaks multiple languages, and will
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