Amirhossein Kazemipour, Hehui Zheng, and Robert Katzschmann of ETH Zurich’s Soft Robotics Lab began with a commercial WUJI right hand with five fingers designed for grabbing. They put a Raspberry Pi, an IMU, and a battery to its back, resulting in a package weighing 818 grams and operating without a cable. Twenty powered joints remained […]
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Leica Puts a 100-Year-Old Leitz Family Leica I Back Together in Fascinating 2+ Hour Restoration Video
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Leica Camera posted a nearly two-and-a-half-hour film called Repairing a 100 Year Old Camera, and it does exactly what the title says. A technician in the company’s own workshop takes apart a Leica I that has lived with the Leitz family since the mid-1920s, finds the cloth that used to keep light out, and puts […]
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First Look at GR KART, Toyota Gazoo Racing’s $2,500 Racer You Can Easily Slide Into a Family Minivan
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Toyota Gazoo Racing put the GR KART on sale in Japan on September 10 for 385,000 yen, about $2,500 including tax, as a closed-course machine meant to get children and families onto a track without the usual pile of extra cost. Each unit comes from the small Gamagori GR KART Workshop in Aichi Prefecture, where […]
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Family of Virginia man last heard from at Nepal-Tibet border just before flood hit desperate for info
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Anil Goel was among about 10 U.S. nationals at the Rasuwagadhi immigration checkpoint on Nepal’s border with Tibet Wednesday morning just before a torrent of mud and floodwater swept away the facility and everything around it. On Friday, the 67-year-old Northern Virginia resident and former World Bank employee’s family was still desperate for information on […]
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BBC asks Florida court to authorize subpoenas for Trump family members in defamation suit
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London — The BBC has asked a Florida court to subpoena members of President Trump’s family as part of the British public broadcaster’s legal defense against Mr. Trump’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit, according to a court filing released Friday. The BBC’s legal team asked the U.S District Court in the Southern District of Florida for […]
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Amanda Knox’s comedy show in U.K. faces criticism from murdered British roommate’s family
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London — Amanda Knox, who made headlines almost two decades ago when she was convicted, but later acquitted, of the murder of her British roommate in Italy, is at the center of a new controversy. Knox is now a stand-up comedian, and not everyone is happy about it. The family of her murdered former housemate, Meredith […]
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Gaza holds mass funeral for 112 people in extended family recovered from wartime rubble
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In Gaza City, row after row of human remains — 112 people in all, and hauntingly from the same extended family — were laid in the morning sun, each draped in a Palestinian flag. This large family group, including dozens of women and children from the Hassayna and Abu Sharia clan in Gaza City, died […]
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Funeral held for family “wiped off the map” in Russian strike on Ukraine, neighbor says
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The funeral of five members of the same family who were killed in a Russian airstrike last week was held in central Ukraine on Monday, as Moscow again pounded the region. According to the Ukrainian authorities, a direct hit by an Iskander ballistic missile struck the family’s house in Kryvyi Rih — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s […]
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Adam Ramsay-Peaty in tears at Commonwealth Games and says family feud ‘has taken its toll’
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Adam Ramsay-Peaty was in tears after winning bronze at the Commonwealth Games An emotional Adam Ramsay-Peaty admitted his family feud has ‘taken a toll’ on his career after he won bronze at the Commonwealth Games on Saturday. The 31-year-old was beaten by Australia’s Sam Williamson and 18-year-old Filip Nowacki of Jersey in the men’s 100 […]
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At least one person died and a second one appeared to be missing after a small plane crashed into a home in northern Germany on Saturday, police said. For reasons that are still being investigated, the small plane lost altitude and crashed into the roof of a single-family home in a residential neighborhood in Ganderkesee in […]