PortandTerminal.com, February 2, 2021 “As amazing as the #technology is, somehow everything that comes out of #BostonDynamics just manages to creep me out a little too much” (Twitter user reaction) Now that Boston Dynamic’s Spot has an arm in addition to legs and cameras, it can do mobile manipulation. It finds and picks up objects (trash), tidies up the living …
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PortandTerminal.com, January 31, 2021 BERLIN – Is there no end of novel usages for the humble sea container? Bomb disposal experts in Germany stacked shipping containers filled with special water balloons to absorb the impact of explosions by live WWII bombs discovered in the center of Göttingen, central Germany The 10-ton (10,000 kilogram) bombs with long-life fuses were dropped by the …
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REUTERS, JANUARY 29, 2021 LONDON (Reuters) – An airport for flying cars will thrust the English city of Coventry into the future later this year, with a project aimed at demonstrating how air taxis will work in urban centres. Urban-Air Port, a British-based start-up, has partnered with car giant Hyundai Motor to develop the infrastructure required for when flying cars …
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PortandTerminal.com, January 16, 2021 Called a Flugschiff (“flying ship”) in German, the aircraft was more luxury flying yacht than a ship. HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA – Part luxury yacht, part 747 airplane, the Dornier Do-X was the most powerful flying boat in the world when it was produced by the Dornier company of Germany in 1929. The largest and heaviest aircraft …
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PortandTerminal.com, December 10, 2020 HALIFAX – In 2019 Chinese military contractors began selling armed, killer drones to customers in the Middle East according to Mark Esper, US Secretary of Defense. Fast forward to 2020 and we are now learning that the Chinese have developed their own flamethrower drones. For now, they are being used for humanitarian, non-military purposes. Blue Sky …
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PortandTerminal.com, December 2, 2020 Ocean Builders‘ plan to convert luxury cruise liners into ocean communities of digital nomads, crypto-enthusiasts and entrepreneurs is one step closer to fruition with the first wave of cabins up for auction aboard MS Satoshi. The 804ft ship (named after the elusive Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto) is being prepared to set sail from the Mediterranean and anchor in …
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PortandTerminal.com, November 28, 2020 OSLO, NORWAY – Norwegian shipbuilding firm Vard said Friday it had delivered the Yara Birkeland – the vessel that will be the world’s first all-electric autonomous container ship – to its owners Yara International. In 2017, Yara, a Norwegian chemical company and one of the world’s largest fertilizer makers, partnered with the Norwegian technology company Kongsberg …
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PortandTerminal.com, November 28, 2020 HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA – Long before IKEA figured out how to break down and flat pack darn near anything for shipping, the US military was crating up Jeeps in a similar fashion. During World War II the military needed a tough vehicle that could carry heavy loads, pull heavy objects and move quickly over rough ground. …
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PortandTerminal.com, November 15, 2020 PARIS – “Reassuring”; “Protective”. These were the words of the first users of the new “disinfection tunnels” installed at a supermarket in France last week. The disinfection tunnels have been installed last week at the entrance of a supermarket in Ajaccio on the French island of Corsica. Footage from November 12 shows shoppers passing through a …
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REUTERS, NOVEMBER 13, 2020 (Reuters) – Boston Dynamics’ dog-like robot ‘Spot’ is learning new tricks. Working on an oil rig operated by BP Plc nearly 190 miles (305 km) offshore in the Gulf of Mexico, the company is programming Spot to read gauges, look for corrosion, map out the facility and even sniff out methane on its Mad Dog rig. …
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