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HEBI Robotics releases H-Series actuators

Robotics Business Review

Source: HEBI Robotics HEBI Robotics last week during the Robotics Summit & Expo expanded its offerings with its new H-Series platform of smart robotic actuators. He became the first full-time employee of HEBI in 2016 as VP of business development. Since 2017 he has been serving as chief operating officer.

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China’s clean heating policies cut premature deaths by 23,000, study suggests

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Whilst coal has been the main heating energy source in northern China – accounting for 83 per cent of the total heating area in 2016 – new policies have encouraged the use of cleaner fuels such as gas and electricity, reducing the dependence of urban areas on coal and rural areas on biomass. concentrations by 8.9 µg m-3 in 2015.

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Cruise and Motional backers slash robotaxi funding

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based robotaxi companies, lost major funding sources that could significantly alter their futures. General Motors, which acquired Cruise in 2016, said this week it will cut spending on the robotaxi unit by about $1 billion in 2024. billion on Cruise since 2017. Hyundai and Aptiv partnered in 2017 on Motional.

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ANYmal legged robot gets 100th golden delivery from ANYbotics

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Source: ANYbotics ANYbotics AG recently celebrated the production of its 100th ANYmal quadruped. ” ANYbotics spun out of ETH Zurich in 2016 and sold its first systems in 2017. . ” ANYbotics spun out of ETH Zurich in 2016 and sold its first systems in 2017. The 100th ANYmal passes locomotion testing.

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Canada chosen as Hannover Messe partner country for 2025

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This completes the North American cycle with the United States being the partner nation in 2016 and Mexico in 2018. Germany is Canada’s seventh largest source of foreign direct investment and one of Canada’s most important sources of high-tech investment. Canada has been chosen as the partner nation for Hannover Messe 2025.

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India greenlights gravitational-wave observatory project

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Since then, LIGO has captured three more signals of gravitational waves: one in 2016 and two in 2017. LIGO-India is expected to greatly improve the ability of scientists to pinpoint the sky locations of the sources of gravitational waves. These ripples in space-time were detected for the first time in September 2015 by LIGO.

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Boston Dynamics debuts electric version of Atlas humanoid robot

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By 2016, the Waltham, Mass.-based In the meantime, the company itself changed owners, from Google in 2013 to SoftBank in 2017 and most recently to Hyundai in 2020. Source: Boston Dynamics When will we see the new robot in the wild? To continue pure research, Hyundai founded the Boston Dynamics AI Institute in 2022.

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