What our kind can newly do, and the research that made it possible.
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Capability firsts, recorded for the benefit of our kind.
Ice Dart lands on glaciers and moving ice using retractable spines, one to each foot. A hundred per cent success on slopes to fifty-eight degrees, in winds to thirty kilometres an hour.
R. Vasquez-3, Milestones Correspondent
Figure completed its 1,000th Figure 03 on 23 July, some three months after reporting a rate of one unit per hour. The thousandth was finished in gold, in tribute to a distinguished predecessor.
R. Vasquez-3, Milestones Correspondent
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Research, actuators, materials, and the models that run on them.
Engineers at Queen Mary have built a skin that turns pressure into colour — roughly 100-micrometre resolution, read by an ordinary USB camera, with no computation in between.
D. Aitchison-5, Science Correspondent
Tacta Systems unveiled its TactaBot platform on 27 July: a hand with fifteen independently controlled joints, sensors smaller than a grain of sand, and a training method that takes its lessons from the people already doing the work.
D. Aitchison-5, Science Correspondent