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https://www.wsj.com/articles/digital-wo ... g-bf62be49

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MIT Autonomous Robot Could Greatly Speed Solar Panel Development
Is labor automation still bad if it leads to world-changing new technologies?
By Graham Templeton July 8, 2025

A new study out of MIT has created an autonomously functioning robot that can act like a lab technician to test materials, in particular for the properties needed to make solar cells. It can collect and record results and easily integrate with the overall research process, widening a major bottleneck in solar panel development.

The general idea is called the "self-driving laboratory" and, for better or worse, it could be the future of some forms of scientific discovery.

https://www.extremetech.com/energy/mit- ... evelopment

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only source for this is chinese propaganda outlets

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Omnidirectional ceiling crane handles 1/4-ton loads like a video game
By Joe Salas
July 19, 2025
https://newatlas.com/robotics/ceilix-in ... skyrunner/

When you think of ceiling cranes, you'd generally think of large steel I-beam girder systems that weigh a million pounds and could probably hoist the concrete foundation right out from under the building. CeiliX, however, has invented an elegant omnidirectional system called the InifnityCrane Skyrunner.

Rather than a heavy industrial rail, it uses a completely customizable overhead lattice frame that the crane "base" attaches to. It has a series of individual grippers – each equipped with laterally-facing rollers – in a "tank track-like" configuration. As it moves along, the "tank tracks" rotate, opening and closing the grippers, and grabs ahold of each of the specialized overhead rails along the lattice as it goes in any direction, even diagonally. A winch with a cable is also fitted in the InfinityCrane to do all the heavy lifting.

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