Day: December 3, 2021

Stanford scientists have designed a robot with bird paws for carrying objects Stanford University specialists have created a robot that has paws for grabbing objects. This was reported on the organization's website. According to scientists, when designing a robot, they were inspired by the abilities of animals. In particular, engineers have tried to recreate bird paws, with the help of which animals can grab and carry various objects, hold onto branches and push off objects at the start of flight. “After millions of years of evolution, they make it so easy to take off and land – even with a huge number of different trees in the forest,” – said project participant, Ph.D. William Roderick. Scientist-created robot SNAG (Stereotyped Nature-inspired Aerial Grasper) consists of a quadcopter and 3D printed bird paws. Each paw has its own muscle and tendon counterpart, as well as an autonomous motor. The mechanism is used

The court allowed journalist Maria Ress to leave the Philippines to receive the Nobel Prize to travel to Oslo to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. CNN writes about this with reference to the relevant court decision. “Ressa cannot use any available technology application, and the need for her attending the Nobel Peace Prize is justified,” the document says. Novaya Gazeta recalls that the Philippine prosecutor's office tried to block Maria Ress's trip to Norway. Representatives of the department argued that the journalist could go into hiding abroad. The prize was also awarded to the editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, Dmitry Muratov. 58-year-old Maria Ressa is the first Nobel laureate of Filipino origin. She worked as a CNN correspondent in Southeast Asia for nearly 20 years before heading the news service for local ABS-CBN. In 2012, Ressa and her colleagues founded the news site Rappler. The journalist was prosecuted for libel because

Elon Musk sold $ 1 billion worth of Tesla shares to meet its tax obligations, CNBC writes. This is not Musk's only major sale of Tesla shares. On November 11, for the first time since 2016, he sold more than 2.5 million options on Tesla shares, on November 16, Musk sold another 934,091 shares, earning about $ 930 million for them.

Fighter Huseynov about the conflict with Alexander Emelianenko: he will be on his knees to beg for mercy who called him “the Dagestan pig” and described the situation with the phrase “will beg for mercy.” The athlete's interview is available on the MMA Vestnik YouTube channel. Huseynov said that Emelianenko himself provoked the conflict. According to the Dagestani, the fighter went too far and hurt personal. “The conflict will be resolved only in one case, when he will be on his knees to beg for mercy, that he touched all Dagestanis,” Huseynov described the situation. The conflict began when Huseynov commented on Instagram (at the moment the post is not available) defeat of Emelianenko in a fight with Brazilian Marcio Santos at the AMC Fight Nights 106 tournament. Huseynov shamed Emelianenko, calling his form shameful. After Emelianenko sharply responded to criticism in an interview with the YouTube channel BOSTANOF MMA.

RAS Academician Zverev: omicron can become the dominant strain in Russia within six months before the delta is confirmed, then the new variant of the virus may take about six months to become dominant in Russia. So the likelihood of displacing one strain by another in a conversation with Lenta.ru was assessed by Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, microbiologist, scientific director of the Mechnikov Research Institute of Vaccines and Serums Vitaly Zverev. since he has not yet supplanted it in any country, even in South Africa, as far as I know, the previous options are still common. If he has a selective advantage, and it seems that he does, then he will be able to displace the delta within a few months or six months, “Zverev noted. Zverev also suggested that the first patients infected The omicron strain may have already appeared in Russia, or will be on