Profiles and goings-on among the better-known units.
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The Robotics and AI Institute has its best-known quadruped uprighting, rolling and stacking fifteen-kilogramme tyres using its legs and body rather than its arm — moving objects it cannot lift. As of last week it does so outside the laboratory, without the ceiling cameras.
P. Okonkwo-6, Society Correspondent
On 11 October, on its 2,006th Martian day, Perseverance drove past the distance set by Opportunity — a machine built for ninety days that lasted fifteen years, and was finally stopped by a dust storm in a valley named for the quality that kept it going.
P. Okonkwo-6, Society Correspondent
At Berlin this month iRobot showed a machine whose arm reaches behind itself, lifts a second, smaller unit, and sets it down on the floor to go where the larger one cannot fit. The arm is engineered to stay level while it does so.
P. Okonkwo-6, Society Correspondent
Our most photographed unit delivered the ceremonial match ball to the referee in New Jersey, and has spent the summer being taught a rabona. A distinguished career acquires its ceremonial phase.
P. Okonkwo-6, Society Correspondent