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Cheetah-Cub robot learns to walk from the animals
2013-04-30 19:08:50| CNET News.com
A quadruped robot developed at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne has been taught to walk by being fed data based on the movements of a horse. [Read more]
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Honduras: Tegucigalpa Learns to Live with Climate Challenges
2013-04-01 23:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: In slums lining several hillsides in the Honduran capital, mitigation works are under way to protect the neighbourhoods from flooding and landslides, which completely obliterated several areas when Hurricane Mitch hit the country fifteen years ago. Tegucigalpa, which covers nearly 1,400 square km and is home to over 1.3 million people, is one of the areas of Honduras most exposed to natural disasters. Geological faults have also been identified in some hillsides surrounding the capital, threatening...
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US militarys BigDog robot learns to throw cinder blocks, grenades
2013-03-01 15:04:16| Extremetech
Boston Dynamics, the robotics company behind AlphaDog, Petman, and Cheetah, has now outfitted its BigDog robot with an arm that's capable of flinging 50-pound (23kg) concrete blocks across a room at high speed. This really is as terrifying as it sounds -- but if you don't trust me, watch the video below.
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