Google continues to scale back its robot ambitions with the news that it’s shutting down Schaft, a little-known Japanese robotics team purchased by Alphabet back in 2013.
Schaft was best known for its work developing advanced bipedal robotics. The firm had its origins in the University of Tokyo’s robotics lab, where engineers built bio-inspired robot legs with metal bones, muscles, and tendons. The team later moved to more conventional systems, modifying industrial robotics hardware to be more powerful and precise.
In 2013, the lab spin-off, Schaft, competed in (and won) DARPA’s Robotics Challenge, which tests robots’ ability to navigate disaster scenarios. The team claimed that their custom actuators (basically a robot’s muscles) were...
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The hosts certainly start as favourites going into the encounter with most of their players showing excellent recent form, but New Zealand will give strong competition.
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Zimbabwe's Brendan Taylor fought valiantly with his second century of the Test but Mehidy Hasan's five-wicket haul helped Bangladesh win the final match by 218 runs to end the series at 1-1 on Thursday.
Wicketkeeper-batsman Mushfiqur Rahim, who scored a resplendent unbeaten 219 in the first innings of the second Test against Zimbabwe, said Bangladesh "badly" needed this victory after being stunned in the first Test. Having lost the first encounter by 151 runs, Bangladesh managed to outclass Zimbabwe by 218 runs in the second and final Test to level the series 1-1.
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