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That’s why a new #discovery reported in the latest #Science is so important. A team of investigators has uncovered the exquisitely preserved skull of a hominid dating back some 1.8 million years at a site called #Dimanisi, in the #Republic of #Georgia, in #Central-Asia. And that #artifact raises doubts about the generally accepted idea that several #human species populated the #Earth at that time.

“We have one #global human species today,” said Christoph Zollikofer, of the #Anthropological Institute and #Museum in #Zurich, #Switzerland, a co-author of the Science report, at a press conference.

“And what we can infer from our study is that 1.8 million years ago there was another [single] global human species.”

#history

https://science.time.com/2013/10/17/rethinking-your-ancestors-the-fossilized-ones/

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One-Wheel Cubli Balances Like Magic

Eight years and 14 million views ago, ETH Zurich introduced the Cubli, a robotic cube that can dynamically balance on a single point. It’s magical to watch, but at the same time, fairly straightforward to understand: there are three reaction wheels within the Cubli, one for each axis. And in a vivid demonstration of Newton’s third law, spinning up a reaction wheel exerts a force on the cube in the opposite direction, resulting in precision control over roll, pitch and yaw that allows the Cubli to balance itself, move around, and even jump.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/balancing-robot-cube
#robotics, #cubli, #zurich, #eth, #reaction, #wheel

One-Wheel Cubli Balances Like Magic

Eight years and 14 million views ago, ETH Zurich introduced the Cubli, a robotic cube that can dynamically balance on a single point, using three reaction wheels. Now they've built a One-Wheel Cubli, which balances on a point like the original...