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🦘🌴 Sifakas might look like they're performing a silly sideways dance, but their distinctive hopping is actually an adaptation of their tree-dwelling skills. These lemurs typically move through the #forest canopy by "vertical clinging and leaping," and when they're on the ground, they transform that same movement into a kangaroo-like bounce.

The footage, captured by a camera disguised as a chameleon, shows this unusual adaptation in action.

👉 Learn more: zurl.co/c0vyX

Xunxiao robot was seen delicately plucking tea leaves at a tea garden in Huizhou, south China's Guangdong Province.

The robot boasts ability to handle complex, unstructured tasks better than traditional industrial robots. It creates real-time 3D maps of complex environments and can identify stairs, slopes and perforated surfaces.

Xunxiao can also handle tasks such as inspecting power equipment or handling intelligent warehouse sorting.

english.news.cn/20250416/18a82

U.S company Cosmic Robotics hopes to speed up solar panel installations with their robot Cosmic-1A, which can install one panel every 30 to 40 seconds. Consisting of a robotic arm mounted on an 8-wheeled vehicle, it can place the heavy panels with millimetre precision 🤖 techcrunch.com/2025/04/16/cosm #Robots #Robotics

TechCrunch · Exclusive: Cosmic Robotics' robots could speed up solar panel deployments | TechCrunchCosmic Robotics has developed a robotic assistant that does the heavy lifting on solar job sites.

How can robots help perform repairs and even manufacture new products in space? 🤖 🛰️

In the latest episode, I chatted to Jeremy Hadall from the Satellite Applications Catapult about orbital #robotics.

Available wherever you get your podcasts: linktr.ee/robottalkpod #Robots #Space

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@planet4589 : "When I was a kid 🧒, it was #LEO. Now, the frontier is out near the #asteroid belt, and the #Moon and #Mars are becoming part of where humanity just hangs out, maybe not yet as people, but with #robots. Meanwhile, #LEO is so normalized that it doesn’t take a #SpaceAgency to deal with it. You just call #SpaceX. Thousand years from now, perhaps more people live off Earth 🌌 than on it" cearkadia.edu.pl/jonathan-mcdo

cearkadia · Jonathan McDowell on Retiring From Harvard and Leaving the U.S. - cearkadiaJonathan McDowell is a go-to expert for all things spaceflight. Thousands of subscribers read his monthly Space Report, and far more people have seen him

I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be returning to The Great Exhibition Road Festival this June for another live episode!

I'll be chatting to a panel of experts about humanoid #robots - why we're fascinated by them & what roles they might play in our future society 🤖

greatexhibitionroadfestival.co #Robotics #Humanoid

greatexhibitionroadfestival.co.ukWhy are we building humanoid robots? - The Great Exhibition Road FestivalWhat is driving the demand for more human-like machines, and what roles might they play in our future society?

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: OK Go's "#Love" music video took 36 attempts to capture in a single take. They turned a Budapest train station into a hall of 63 mirrors manipulated by robot arms programmed to move with 0.01-degree precision. 🦾🪞

The whole setup spans about 100 meters, with each robot performing movements that synchronize with the #music. BTW they instantly stop if they detect contact with anything – like the hundreds of sharp edges careening around a person's head!

👉 Learn more: thekidshouldseethis.com/post/l

At some point, when does a robot stop being a robot and turn into a biomechanoid? And when does a biomechanoid turn into a synthetic human? Where does AI kick in? There has to be a continuum on this stuff.
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Screamers
Robbie the Robot
Finch
Astromechs
R2D2
C3PO
The Original Cylons
Mobile Suit Gundam
Darth Vader
Robocop
Data
Murderbot
Motoko Kusanagi The Major
Alphie
Cylons Next Gen
Expanse Creepy Alien humanoid
Clone
Me Before Coffee
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Something like that?