Electrical Engineer, UAV Builder and UAV Pilot, First Amendment Advocate

Pacific Northwest
Joined May 2014
This robot can transform from a walking hexapod into a ball. 🤯🤖 Meet MorpHex a DIY biomimetic robot created by Norwegian roboticist Kåre Halvorsen, also known online as Zenta. Its six legs can fold around the body, allowing the robot to switch between walking and spherical rolling modes. Inspired by biological forms such as the armadillo, MorpHex is a fascinating example of morphing robotics one mechanical design, multiple ways to move. Would you rather have a robot that walks… or rolls? 👀 🎥 Media: @ZappyZappy7 ( X ) ⚠️ This content is shared for informational purposes only. CTO Robotics Media is a media platform and does not own or develop the technology shown. Credit belongs to the original creators. #MorpHex #KareHalvorsen #ZentaRobotics #Hexapod #Robotics #Biomimicry #RobotDesign #DIYRobotics #MorphingRobotics #RobotEngineering #CTORoboticsMedia
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Fascinating to watch a robot reason about its environment and figure out why the WiFi isn't working. Perceptron just launched Mk1.5, a model built to drive embodied agents, one model running drones, robots, smart glasses, and phones with no per-platform retraining. New: native audio, video object tracking, and tool use. It can now call web search, read pages, and even spawn sub-agents to parallelize a task.
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Two red and green macaws flying side by side, their wings touching as they soar together [📹 diche_mideros]
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A family of snow leopards facing a storm
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Solarpunk is a movement that imagines a sustainable and optimistic future where humanity thrives in harmony with nature.
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A pair of swans performing a synchronized dance for each other to strengthen their bond 📹 Virory
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Peacocks in flight
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Two bottles and sunlight can turn seawater into fresh water. 📹 thebrainmaze
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Teenager Christopher Slayton built the "entire known universe" in Minecraft. [🎞️ ChrisDaCow]
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School Chalk under an electron microscope. It’s almost entirety made up of fossilized shells of ancient single-celled marine plankton called coccolithophores.
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That must feel amazing
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This immune cell soldier (yellow) fights a highly aggressive cancer cell (magenta). [📹 Slaats Jeroen]
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225 years of progress in 60 seconds. My all time favorite video.
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We just crossed a line in medicine that humanity has been walking toward for a hundred years. For the first time, doctors can take a biopsy of your specific tumor, read its unique DNA mutations — the exact fingerprint no other cancer on earth shares — and build a custom mRNA blueprint written for one human being. Yours. It doesn't poison the cancer. It teaches your own immune system what to hunt. And this week, Phase 3 results confirmed it works. Added to the best immunotherapy we already had, this individualized cancer vaccine has been dramatically cutting the odds that high-risk melanoma comes back. In the earlier data, the combination reduced the risk of recurrence or death by 49%, and the risk of the cancer spreading to distant organs by 62%, compared to the standard treatment alone. This week's Phase 3 readout confirmed the benefit holds. That is not a modest tweak. That is a different trajectory for a human life. And melanoma is just the first door. The same approach is now in trials across lung, bladder, and kidney cancers — a whole program of them, racing forward. Understand what this actually means, because it's bigger than one drug. For all of history, we fought cancer with blunt weapons. Cut it out. Burn it with radiation. Flood the whole body with chemotherapy and hope the cancer dies before the patient suffers too much. We were swinging a hammer in the dark. This is a blueprint. A weapon designed atom by atom for one person's disease, that turns their own body into the thing that finds and destroys it. We are watching medicine shift from managing cancer to hunting it. I've spent my life as a physician, and I did not expect to see this so soon. We were told personalized cancer vaccines were a thirty-year dream. They are happening right now, in real patients, with real data, in our lifetime. I don't say this lightly, and I say it as a doctor who knows exactly how rare these moments are: this is one of the most hopeful things to happen in the history of the field. I woke up thinking of the words of the morning prayer — Modeh Ani — I thank You. Gratitude, the moment you open your eyes, for a soul returned and a day given. To be alive at the exact hour when human beings learned to teach the body to cure itself feels like standing inside that prayer. We are not at the end of cancer. But we are, unmistakably, at the beginning of the end of its reign.
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Tomb of Ramesses IX in Luxor’s Valley of the Kings, dating to 1129–1111 BCE
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Unitree New Robot Preview: “Superman” Breaking the Limits of Humanity🥳 Standing high jump 2 m, top speed 12.66 m/s (0.85 m leg length) Surpassing the standing high jump and running speed records of all humans around the world This new machine has only been in development for a little over three months, with significant room for further improvement in the coming months.
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Tectonic time-lapse: one billion years of Earth’s history in 40 seconds [📹 University of Adelaide]
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Gig Harbor, Washington, best place on Earth 🇺🇸
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A Orca gave birth to a calf that died shortly after. For the next 17 days, she carried her dead baby on her head and back while swimming more than 1,600 kilometers through the waters of the North Pacific. Whenever she grew tired, members of her pod swam alongside her and helped push the body so it wouldn’t sink. Scientists who observed the behavior said it wasn’t just instinct… it was a clear and prolonged expression of grief.
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The video appears AI-generated as an illustration of real events. In 2018, southern resident orca Tahlequah (J35) carried her dead calf for 17 days over ~1,600 km. Pod members helped; researchers called it grief. whaleresearch.com/j35 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahlequah…
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