#aldebaran — Public Fediverse posts
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04.45: #Venus staat 3,2gr N van #Aldebaran, de helderste ster van het #sterrenbeeld #Stier (+0,9m). De dichtste nadering gebeurt om 18:25, in onze streken op een hoogte van 0gr, maar bij daglicht. Bekijk de samenstand rond 4:45 uur, of op 14 jul rond 4 uur. Het tweetal staat i/h eerste geval boven de oostnoordoostelijke horizon, op een hoogte van ongeveer 13gr, op een afstand van 3,2gr van elkaar. In het tweede geval sta/d twee hemell... Meer info: https://hemel.waarnemen.com/astrokal/
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From 2017: #Google has finally found a buyer for its amazing, scary robot companies, #BostonDynamics and #Schaft: #SoftBank
The companies are not disclosing a price.
by April Glaser
Updated Jun 8, 2017, 10:07 PM EDT"Japan’s big-betting holding firm SoftBank is buying Boston Dynamics, one of the most highly regarded robotics labs in the world, from Google’s parent company #Alphabet for an undisclosed price.
"Google acquired Boston Dynamics in 2013 under the leadership of Andy Rubin, the co-inventor of #Android, who was leading a wave of acquisitions of robotics companies under the search giant.
"Boston Dynamics’ robots routinely make headlines, including a high-profile demo at this year’s TED conference. The company, led by CEO Marc Raibert, has made a robotic cheetah that can run 28 miles per hour, a robotic dog that it recently used to deliver packages to doorsteps in Boston, and most recently a massive legged and wheeled robot that can clear hurdles and walk down stairs.
"The firm has been hailed by other roboticists for its ability to blend hardware and #ArtificialIntelligence to make machines capable of dynamic, agile movements. Its most recent wheeled robot, Handle, can manipulate objects that are comparable to its own weight, and its four-legged, animal-like robots can maneuver over different types of terrain.
"One industry source said earlier this year that Boston Dynamics’ most recent machine 'changes the whole ballgame.'
"SoftBank is also buying Schaft, a Japan-based robotics firm that unveiled a bipedal walking robot last year, from Alphabet. A source close to the matter said Schaft, which was part of Google, never fully integrated into the company and operated as a sort of separate entity taking a different approach to robotics than the rest of Google.
"The deal makes sense for SoftBank, which has been working in robotics for years, having acquired a majority stake in the robotics company #Aldebaran in 2012. Aldebaran makes the humanoid robot Pepper, which is being used in retail and customer service settings throughout Japan, and increasingly in the U.S. SoftBank has also invested in related technologies, including buying chip design firm #ARMHoldings last year for more than $30 billion. SoftBank also led a $20 million investment round in #FetchRobotics, a company that makes warehouse logistics robots, in 2015.
"Rubin left Google in 2014 after driving a string of robotics acquisitions, which, sources have told Recode, left a number of the companies without much direction about what their role at Google would be.
"Prior to being acquired by Google, Boston Dynamics largely operated on military research contracts. Its humanoid #Atlas robot was used in #DARPA’s robotics challenge in 2015."
https://www.vox.com/2017/6/8/15766440/softbank-alphabet-google-robotics-boston-dynamics-schaft
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Lovely sky right now, feels like we haven’t seen many stars lately. If you’re in the UK and #LookUp right now, you’ll see the #Pleiades and #Hyades clusters, the bright stars #Capella, #Aldebaran and #Betelgeuse (no, it hasn’t exploded yet), as well as #Jupiter. Here’s the view. #astronomy #space
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On Friday, #HawaiianAirlines received their first #787 (a #787-9) from #Boeing! Welcome Kapuahi to the fleet! All of Hawaiian's long haul widebodies have names related to celestial navigation, Kapuahi is the Hawaiian name for the star we call #Aldebaran. Kapuahi also means stove or fireplace. The link is from last year and has more details about the plane itself. https://bit.ly/453RENr
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#RätselDesTages
Habt ihr eine schöne Bildunterschrift für dieses Bild? #Lüneburg #beiNacht #Wasserrutsche #Sirius #Aldebaran #Orion -
Der #Himmelsjäger ist wieder da!
Das #Wintersternbild #Orion über dem Starnberger #See.
Rechts davon sieht man den Kopf des Sternbildes #Stier mit dem Hauptstern #Aldebaran.Der helle Stern links im Bild ist #Sirius im Sternbild Großer #Hund 😊
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Bellissimo il cielo stasera: anche dalla città con tutte le luci ke stelle sono stuoende. #Orione #Aldebaran #Gemelli #UnoCielo
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@RitaWerner Und zum 50. Jubiläum eine Stippvisite mit der #Haunebu nach #Aldebaran. Nur echt mit umweltfreundlichem #Vril-Antrieb 👆
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Another very clear evening in #Bochum, Germany ... and so here is #ZTF again, close to a 9.75 mag. star and near #Aldebaran and the #Hyades: all images with a Panasonic #Lumix DMC-FZ300 at f/2.8 and various zoom settings (35 mm equivalent focal lengths given; images cropped moderately) - some more pictures are also in https://www.facebook.com/dan.fischer.393/posts/pfbid0QviziYzpAr7KTrEenTFVBAjNRocgmVv9Ge6k4D91jdmEgrtFYUK3qbDqg8LdH3akl
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If you want to see the famous green comet at its best and brightest: tonight (5th February) is your night.
Look high in the east around 7pm local time. You'll see bright #Mars and the nearby reddish star #Aldebaran. Continue to the left and you'll find the bright yellow star #Capella. Tonight only, #CometZTF is close enough to Capella to see it in the same binocular field of view. You'll see it as a distinct smudge of light.
📷: Stellarium simulation
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Il y a plus de 20 ans, je suis tombé amoureux de cette région du ciel, et pas que pour mon étoile favorite. Y en a-t-il de plus belle dans l'hémisphère Nord ?
Bon solstice d'hiver à toutes et à tous.
#Orion #Taurus #Betelgeuse #Pleiades #Hyades #Mars #Aldebaran #Rigel
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Few weeks ago at #sido I met the delivery #robot #BellaBot: https://www.pudurobotics.com/products/bellabot
It is genuinely cute, provides feedback when moving smoothly and without hitting obstacles.
The robot stays at the tables long enough to get its trays emptied.
Interaction #hri is limited to touching its screen-face.Too bad #aldebaran’s #PlatoRobot was not there at #sido to compete.
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My former colleagues from #Aldebaran are proud to demonstrate their service #robot #PlatoRobot: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6998669196804915200/?msgControlName=reply_to_sender&msgConversationId=2-ZTc2MmZlOTktMTQyMC00MWNkLWI1NDgtMDJkNjllOTNmYWMxXzAxMg%3D%3D&msgOverlay=true
Looking at the video, it looks smoother than I expected. -
#Planet# Mars passiert kommende Nacht um 02:45 MESZ den mag 1 hellen #Stern #Aldebaran im #Sternbild #Stier im Abstand von 4°20'42,22" nördlich. Elongation 96° W.
