P2 Quick Byte

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MIT Robot Learns How to Play Jenga

Watch this from MIT Mechanical Engineering (seen on IEE Spectrum).

Using machine-learning and sensory hardware, Alberto Rodriguez, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, and members of MIT's MCube lab have developed a robot that is learning how to play the game Jenga®. The technology could be used in ALL sorts of robots - especially those required for subtle "human-like" manipulations.   

Perseverance Rover's Descent and Touchdown on Mars: Onboard Camera Views

 I just re-watched this. It is hard to imagine  all that has to got right to make this work. What an achievement! I am in awe of the brains, ingenuity, science, programming, engineering, and "perseverance."  

From NASA's Perseverance Mission info,

NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance mission captured thrilling footage of its rover landing in Mars' Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, 2021.  The real footage in this video was captured by several cameras that are part of the rover's entry, descent, and landing suite. The views include a camera looking down from the spacecraft's descent stage (a kind of rocket-powered jet pack that helps fly the rover to its landing site), a camera on the rover looking up at the descent stage, a camera on the top of the aeroshell (a capsule protecting the rover) looking up at that parachute, and a camera on the bottom of the rover looking down at the Martian surface.

The audio embedded in the video comes from the mission control call-outs during entry, descent, and landing. 

For more information about Perseverance, visit https://mars.nasa.gov/perseverance

Credit

NASA/JPL-Caltech