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Space Station Astronauts Build Objects that Couldn’t Exist on Earth
The Washington Post reports:
Backed by MIT’s Space Exploration Initiative, astronauts on board the International Space Station on Friday completed a roughly 45-day experiment using a small microwave-sized box that injects resin into silicone skins to build parts, such as nuts and bolts. Now, after the parts travel back to Earth this weekend, scientists will evaluate the test pieces to examine whether they were made successfully — a process that could take weeks.
If so, it paves the way for astronauts to build huge parts that would be nearly impossible on Earth thanks to gravity and could upgrade space construction.It lets you build and modify space stations “quicker, cheaper and with less complexity,” said Ariel Ekblaw, the founder of the Space Exploration Initiative. “It starts to unlock more opportunities for exploration.”
The silicone skin is like a balloon filled with resin instead of air, an MIT engineer/researcher told Popular Science — with the resin then cured and solidified by a flash of ultraviolet light. (After which astronauts can cut away the silicone skin.)
The best part? The skin and the resin are both readily available off-the-shelf products.
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Daily Crunch: New Point-E AI allows users to generate 3D objects from detailed text prompts
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Amazon’s latest robot picker for warehouses uses AI to identify objects
Amazon has unveiled its latest warehouse robot. It says “Sparrow is the first robotic system in our warehouses that can detect, select, and handle individual products in our inventory.” The robotic arm uses AI and computer vision to recognize and handle millions of items, according to Amazon.
The company says that, by employing robots in its warehouses, it can conduct operations more efficiently and safely. “Sparrow will take on repetitive tasks, enabling our employees to focus their time and energy on other things, while also advancing safety,” Amazon said. “At the same time, Sparrow will help us drive efficiency by automating a critical part of our fulfillment process so we can continue to deliver for customers.” It added that, by employing robots, it has been able to create more than 700 new job categories.
Amazon doesn’t exactly have a spotless record when it comes to conditions for warehouse workers, particularly when robots are involved. In 2020, the Center for Investigative Reporting’s Reveal publication released a report indicating that, between 2016 and 2019, the rate of serious injuries sustained by Amazon employees at automated warehouses was 50 percent higher than at facilities that don’t use robots.
According to the report, the use of robots led Amazon to increase workers’ quotas, requiring them to scan as many as 400 items per hour when they previously had to scan 100. “The data back up the accounts of Amazon warehouse workers and former safety professionals who say the company has used the robots to ratchet up production quotas to the point that humans can’t keep up without hurting themselves,” the report reads.
This past July, it emerged that the US government was looking into Amazon over alleged unsafe workplace conditions. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration carried out inspections that were “related, among other things, to Amazon’s required pace of work for its warehouse employees.”
Amazon revealed Sparrow amid a drive by warehouse workers to unionize their workplaces, where robots are taking over duties in some cases. In March, workers at the JFK8 fulfillment center in Staten Island voted to unionize, becoming the first Amazon warehouse to do so. The company has challenged the result of the election. More recently, workers at an Albany, New York warehouse voted against unionization after Amazon conducted an anti-union campaign.
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How to destroy chrome objects in Fortnite and collect Anomalies
Fortnite chrome objects are taking over with the new season, and you’ll need to destroy some in order to carry out Jonesy’s Paradise quests and help Paradigm save the island. As we know from the new season’s cinematic trailer, chrome is taking over anything and anyone on the map for this battle royale game – and is something to do with a mysterious villain we first caught a glimpse of last season.
The quest to destroy chrome objects in Fortnite isn’t immediately available, and you’ll need to help Jonesy with some other tasks first, as the long and storied lore continues. Here’s everything you need to know about Fortnite’s chrome objects and how to collect Anomalies.
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