Hasta La Gadget!

One of the latest amazing robots to come out of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) is based on a Salamander. It can mimic the way a salamander moves, on land or in the water. It goes by the name of Pleurobot (named after the species Pleurodeles waltl). It was designed by studying x-ray videos showing real salamanders walking and swimming.

He’s pretty cute for a robot, and has the most realistic movements of any amphibian bot so far. They have built others. This is also the first one that’s “accurately based on the 3D motion of the animal’s skeleton.” Pleurobot has 3D-printed bones, motorized joints and an electronic circuitry that is basically a synthetic central nervous system.

One difference is that it has fewer vertebrae than a real salamander. This was intentional, in order to get the machine’s movements to look as authentic and natural as possible. If you wonder why researchers would spend time building a robot salamander, there’s a good underlying cause. This robot will help the team better understand vertebrate locomotion, which could in turn lead to better neuroprosthetic devices for amputees and paraplegic patients.

[via Engadget]

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Sling TV today announced the launch of new single-stream and multi-stream services as well as the addition of NBC, BBC America, and additional content partners. The single-stream service is called Sling Orange and it includes BBC America and BBC World news, the package remains at $20 per month. Sling Blue is the new multi-stream service that features NBC, USA, Syfy, BBC America, BBC World News, and more for $25 per month.

Sling has also introduced a multi-service discount that combines Orange and Blue for $40 per month. Subscribers can opt for additional NBCUniversal networks in Sling Blue’s Extra packs, these networks include MSNBC, Oxygen, Gold, E!, CNBC, and NBCUniverso.

Subscribers who signed up during the beta phase of Sling Blue will get the additional channels included in this package and their price will remain at $20 per month. Sling Orange remains at $20 per month for all new and existing subscribers.

Local content from NBC affiliates will be added in the future on a market-by-market basis. Sling Blue subscribers will also get access to live, local NBC broadcast stations in Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, Hartford, Conn., Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, San Diego and Washington D.C.

More information about each individual content package and Extra packs is available on the Sling TV website.

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Telsa unveiled its first mass-market electric car – the Model 3 – earlier this year. It’s going to unveil this car in two parts and we saw the exterior and were told about some of its features in part one, part two will hopefully touch on its performance and other features when it takes place later this year. A new report suggests that the Tesla Model 3 performance could actually be quite similar to that of the considerably expensive Tesla Model S.

Electrek reports that the Tesla Model 3 is going to have a 300kW power inverter which means it’s going to have similar power and possibly similar 0-60 times as the expensive Model S.

It’s claimed that Tesla has tasked the same engineers who worked on the dual motor inverter architecture for the Model S to develop the motor for the Model 3 and that they were given a blank sheet to develop the power package for this car from the ground up, that includes the power semiconductor package.

An unnamed source claims that this strategy has worked for Tesla and that the inverter architecture for the Model 3 has a capacity of over 300kW which is comparable to the Model S’ RWD system despite the fact that the Model S can cost nearly $100,000 while the Model 3 is priced at $35,000 excluding federal and state subsidies.

None of this has been officially confirmed yet so take it with a grain of salt. Tesla is yet to confirm when it’s going to hold part two of the Model 3 unveiling, the car itself is going to hit the production line next year.

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