Beginning in 230, Beach Pneumatic Transit, named for its developer, ran a passenger capsule moved by pneumatic power under Broadway in Manhattan, from Warren Street to Murray Street.
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The most famous experiments are probably New York's, where a pneumatic mail system ran from the 1890s through the 1950s and an experimental pneumatic subway was in limited operation from 1870 to 1873.
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Last year she transformed herself into a pneumatic Jessica Rabbit.
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While the clutch was hydraulic, engaging different gears was pneumatic.
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You don't introduce a pneumatic tube without sending somebody through it!
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Trash was collected by an underground pneumatic system rather than trucks.
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The concept resembles in appearance those pneumatic tube systems used to send messages through buildings, though Musk said in a written proposal that his Hyperloop would require more innovation than merely enlarging existing pneumatic pipeline designs.
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A pneumatic valve pushed the BulgariaSat launch back from Monday, June 19.
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HyperloopElon Musk's pneumatic-tube system that will propel capsules at 700 mph.
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A pneumatic pump allows the robot to swap out its own tools.
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Libraries used to send book requests to the stacks in pneumatic tubes.
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Atari employees made the robots using pneumatic cylinders and 4-track tape recorders.
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Like other megaraptors, its hips were pneumatic, meaning they were filled with air.
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Since when did ploughing someone like a pneumatic drill make for good sex?
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There are mission control manuals three inches thick and canisters for pneumatic tubes.
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That movement is pneumatic, powered by gas derived from hydrogen peroxide, the robot's fuel.
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Though these tubes have flirted with obsolescence, the pneumatic dream has been surprisingly resilient.
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Compared to pneumatic pumps, this version is significantly smaller, more efficient and more durable.
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Dust so fine that it brings billion-dollar machines to their pneumatic knees. Moondust.
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With a pneumatic hiss, its legs extended, elevating the robot's body over the obstacles.
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A pneumatic injector the shape of a wand was positioned precisely atop the implant.
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If this is the direction that Musk decides to take his idea, it would be a new face on an old concept: pneumatic tubes were not only proposed, but demonstrated, with the short-lived Beach Pneumatic Transit line in New York in 1869.
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The sound of their pneumatic drills blended with those at new construction sites all around.
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Alter has 42 pneumatic actuators and a "central pattern generator," according to Engadget's Mat Smith.
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The rear spoiler raises, lowers, and tilts, using a combination of motors and pneumatic actuators.
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The printers use pneumatic systems, rather than traditional additive manufacturing technologies, to move ingredients around.
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Before smashing the sculpture, Islamic State fighters chiseled off its face with a pneumatic drill.
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You just need to make it like a pneumatic tube you can shoot drugs through.
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The basic pneumatic tube system uses variations in air pressure to push things through it.
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Pneumatic tubes have historically been used to transport everything from mail to fruit to steel.
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The van has a pneumatic lift and can accommodate multiple large bodies at a time.
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A monitor with a less sophisticated twisted pneumatic (TN) panel can perform nearly as nicely.
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If the grapes are for white wine, they may go through a gentle pneumatic pressing.
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These hydraulic, pneumatic and now electric figures have been a fixture at Disneyland since the 60s.
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In the trendy Las Mercedes area, the din of pneumatic drills starts shortly after 7am every weekday.
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Aurora Series Flash Furniture Mid-Back Pink Fabric Chair with Pneumatic Life and Chrome Base, $230.99; walmart.
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Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer.
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Air bladder and actuator to power the pneumatic silicone muscles, generator and connections for the electroactive polymers.
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The "soft pneumatic gelatin actuators" in question are the squishy-looking fingers you can see above and below.
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Many of us know pneumatic tubes from the bank drive-thru — but they have a surprisingly long history.
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Since 1812 people have batted around the idea for pneumatic transport, and it was actually put into practice.
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"Pneumatic pumps have not been optimized for portability, since they are usually used in fixed settings," Paik explained.
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The lab was in the last stages of creating a pneumatic wheelchair — one propelled purely by compressed air.
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The value of pneumatic exports to South Korea last year was 6.4 billion yen ($60 million), it said.
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Its latest album, "III," blends chilly, stutter-step beats with the Apparat singer Sascha Ring's lovely, pneumatic vocals.
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The Phillie Phanatic, never one to be outdone, shoots off free hot dogs using a four-foot pneumatic gun.
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The basic module of this bot is comprised of three pneumatic pumps that expand and collapse to change direction.
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Then adding in a simple pneumatic system allowed the team to have the device change shape all by itself.
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Before pneumatic tyres, city streets were full of the deafening clang of metal-rimmed wheels and horseshoes on stone.
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The pneumatic system pumps compressed air in and out of the tentacle, bending inward to wrap around an object.
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Abu Yousef said residents told rebels that the tunnels were dug using pneumatic drills over a period of months.
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Correspondents sitting in the courtroom sent the morning's opinions through pneumatic tubes to reporters downstairs in the press room.
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Key to the mission was a collection of pneumatic air guns, whose barrages of pressurized air created acoustic pulses.
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His constant insistence that the U.S. is not "winning" is being repeated with such pneumatic regularity that voters believe it.
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Its advanced technology (chain drives, wire spoke wheels, pneumatic tires, etc.) was an essential step before automobiles could become practical.
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Yet most soft robots are propelled by pneumatic pressure or cables that are, in turn, driven by bulky, rigid motors.
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On the occasion of Hugh Hefner's death at 91, we can see his pneumatic mansion through a few different lenses.
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Naya Health's new breast pump works using a water-based hydraulic system rather than a pneumatic, or air-based, one.
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While cities have long used pneumatic tube systems to deliver small parcels, transporting people raises major engineering and cost challenges.
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In one poem, he sent us a message, as if through a pneumatic tube: People who read are not happy.
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"There is more money in this," she said, while tethered to a pneumatic staple gun on an assembly line at Vanguard.
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He has a steel-and-carbon-fibre skeleton, and "muscles" filled with polystyrene balls and powered by remote-controlled pneumatic tubes.
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Firefighters extinguished the blaze in seconds, but even using pneumatic tools took hours to free the driver and passenger -- who survived.
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The white boys' second match opened with a pop—a pneumatic uppercut that whisked Big Chet's opponent into a childhood fear.
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This thing is heavy enough to knock out someone, but it looks sleek, like some kind of advanced pneumatic tube capsule.
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The battle to bring Hyperloop, Elon Musk's vision for zipping around the country in something akin to pneumatic tubes, encourages aggressive timelines.
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Seeker explains the sensory process:Stretchy optical waveguides containing LEDs are built right into the pneumatic fingers, allowing them to "sense" the surroundings.
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ScanEagles use a pneumatic launcher to take off, and are recovered by a system of cables, letting them operate without an airfield.
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They purchase pneumatic drills because they want to dig a hole in the road, not because they like the way they look.
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The thin silicone sleeve is equipped with air-driven (pneumatic) actuators, which are placed around the heart to mimic its outer muscular layers.
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In order to give Affetto's face more humanistic expressions, the researchers developed a version with a lot more pneumatic actuators behind the skin.
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This trope is repeated with pneumatic regularity every month and during every political Administration, so why don't we just dispense with the nonsense?
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Pneumatic control boxes offered just one setting for each zone's minimum airflow, whether the system was heating, cooling, or just delivering fresh air.
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Foley prefers a pneumatic tire since he is waiting for a solid tire to keep up with the demands of an e-bike.
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Statues and other artefacts in the Mosul Museum were smashed, and ruins around the city were broken up using hammers and pneumatic drills.
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This translates to a wild live show where guitars buzz like pneumatic drills over melodic lines varying from soul-pop to discordant mayhem.
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Average salary: $60,170 Required sociability score: 64 They diagnose, adjust, repair, or overhaul aircraft engines and assemblies, such as hydraulic and pneumatic systems.
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In the zany spirit of the occasion, it featured such unconventional instruments as pneumatic riveting machines, steam pipes, ocean liner whistles and sledgehammers.
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The technology that Greeks and Romans developed for pumping water, for instance, underpinned their theories of the four humors and the pneumatic soul.
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Some of the steps companies can take using existing technologies include replacing production hardware like pneumatic controllers and glycol pumps that can leak.
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I had found the perfect canary yellow 21950s Ossie Clark gown, but my collection of pneumatic 21940st century bras looked frankly ridiculous underneath it.
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Click here to view original GIFUsing pneumatic pistons and servos to power robots makes them fast and strong, but also bulky and extremely heavy.
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Ever since John Boyd Dunlop developed the first practical pneumatic tire in 3603, tire manufacturers have looked for ways to prevent flats and blowouts.
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Oehrlein also told me Mk. III is outfitted with a logging grapple, and a pneumatic cannon that fires three pound projectiles at 130 mph.
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The GeoBlade also comes with an upgraded wheel — it's now a pneumatic tire that's better for "land surfing" up hills and on city streets.
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"Every [pneumatic] chamber creates a piece of the swell, and by sequencing it, we add them together and create a wave," Ginestet, 2403, said.
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Parades tend to be on smooth roads, the wheels of our sleigh are pneumatic, and there is very little effort involved for the reindeer.
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It just takes too much work to maintain balance using electric or pneumatic motors, when four legs are more stable and wheels are faster.
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Meanwhile, students at Antioch College in Ohio conceived of a "Nomadic/Pneumatic Campus," an outdoor classroom sheltered by a 40-foot-high polyvinyl canopy.
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Instead, books were requested by filling out a slip of paper that was whisked down a pneumatic tube to workers in the stacks below.
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It's a high-tech fish removal system, something like a cross between a potato gun and a pneumatic tube at a drive-in bank.
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Your dream of one day zipping from one city to another in a pod in a pneumatic tube just took one more step toward reality.
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ENERGY distribution has come a long way since the early 20th century, when cities pumped pressurised fluids to homes and businesses to power pneumatic machines.
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If you've been waiting your whole life for a chance to see LeVar Burton shoot up a giant pneumatic tube, you're in for a treat.
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Although it does not need to be inflated, the self-supporting tyre is said to produce the ride and handling of a standard pneumatic tyre.
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What's nuts is that the Hyperloop obviously sounds more insane—it's basically designed to shoot passengers like bank checks through a drive-thru pneumatic tube.
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Replacing and upgrading equipment called pneumatic controllers that are used at oil and natural-gas operations and often emit methane and other types of emissions.
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Japan's National Science Museum unveiled a new exhibit last month: a creepy-looking robot that's powered by 42 pneumatic actuators and its own neural network.
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In Michael's fifteenth year, his life accelerated, like a cylinder in one of those pneumatic tubes, whisking off your deposit at a drive-through bank.
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His favorite movie is "Brazil"—a romantic tale set in a future automated by such endearingly retrograde technology as pneumatic tubes and mechanical breakfast-makers.
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It's not a pneumatic pump, a telephone switchboard, a tape recorder or any of the other objects people have compared it to over the years.
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Typically, Major Lazer remakes Caribbean music as pneumatic-drill-intense roars, but here, it eases up and lets the studiously smooth Kes take the lead.
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The concept of using pneumatic tubes to transport people and things has dotted the pop culture and scientific development landscape since the early 20th century.
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It's now rear wheel drive, which makes steering more stable, and it's got coilover suspension and pneumatic tires, which deliver a smoother ride on bumpy terrain.
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The downside of pneumatic and hydraulic actuators is that they are slow to respond and rigid—which kind of defeats the whole point of soft robotics.
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This slower air should form a boundary layer which, Mr Schlaerth says, would act as a "pneumatic cushion" that softened and impeded downward-propagating shock waves.
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Clad in either her pneumatic vest or her pyjamas or a mixture of the two, Jolie spoke in an adorable attempt at a posh English accent.
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But not every animatronic in the parks can be a simple pneumatic connected to a bulky master system or a highly advanced and complex robotic masterwork.
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Some of the things that you can see here are; two fly presses with their 12lb balls, two anvils, two forges and a pneumatic power hammer.
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The pneumatic chair is half the weight of a normal power chair, much faster to charge, and easy to fix with parts from a hardware store.
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In 21913, the state legislature gave Gilbert a charter to build his elevated pneumatic railway, but a year later Wall Street collapsed in the Panic of 21913.
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Manufacturing costs are also a little higher than for pneumatic tyres, but both Sumitomo Rubber and Bridgestone expect an eventual move to mass production would solve that.
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But with engines that are officially louder than pneumatic diggers and on the cusp of jet engines at take-off, why are they still flattering to deceive?
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Humans everywhere were captivated over the weekend by a viral video of salmon being transported from one estuary to another through a giant overland pneumatic tube — a.k.a.
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As Whooshh's lead bioengineer Jim Otten explains in a company presentation video, the fish tube is a simple pneumatic tube that's been adapted to be fish-friendly.
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A few other items beyond food will also face a tax, including aircraft, anoraks, wool suits, blankets, bed linen, axes, pneumatic tools for metal working and backhoes.
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CARAMANICA On the whole, Lizzo is more impressive than her music — a nimble, audacious, flexible talent performing workout-session songs that are subtle as a pneumatic drill.
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" NASA will be contributing two instruments to the MMX mission: one that will be able to analyze elements on the moon's surface and a "pneumatic sampling device.
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The meaning of each word, painted in a warm, fleshy tone, is all but irrelevant against a swirling blue backdrop, where streaks of white form a pneumatic grid.
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Other upgrades include GPS-enabled anti-theft device, 9-inch semi-solid pneumatic tires, and a digital lock that can be locked and unlocked from Bird's smartphone app.
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"I think that around June 10 there will be conditions to enable the mine, once the pneumatic, hydraulic and all engineering tests are done," Machuca said on Monday.
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Humphry had joined the Pneumatic Institution at Bristol a year earlier, where under his boss, physician Thomas Beddoes, he attempted to isolate gases deemed remedial for tuberculosis sufferers.
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The added safety also means pneumatic robots wouldn't have to be locked away in giant safety cages, which take up a lot of valuable space on factory floors.
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The Universal Fastener Company of Chicago was built around an innovation by Whitcomb Judson, an oddball whose main obsession was developing a pneumatic streetcar driven by compressed air.
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The robots you see moving heavy parts around in a factory are made of steel and pneumatic components that make them strong and fast, but not very forgiving.
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Crouchley is now working on another prototype that has the pneumatic tube underneath the train instead of alongside it, so it's attached to the train at all times.
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And Mr. Koons's "Balloon Dog (Orange)," a pneumatic-looking sculpture in similar mirror-polished steel, sold in 2013 for $58 million, an auction record for a living artist.
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So it's just just like… [Someone makes really loud and realistic pneumatic robot jackhammering noises] Ian: They just run around on the stage with a can of oil?
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A video game heroine turned media franchise, Lara Croft, with her pneumatic breasts and heavy guns, always came off as an onanistic cartoon for 12-year-old boys.
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To get SQUID airborne, the researchers fire it out of a modified pneumatic baseball pitching machine, which gives it an initial speed of around 35 miles per hour.
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Even the D.J. who hyped up the crowd before Lil Yachty arrived stuck to the pneumatic-drill-intense hip-hop: Ferg, OG Maco, Young Thug, Skepta, Lil Uzi Vert.
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You'll keep track of overall ammo, manage your flashlight's charge, make sure your pneumatic weapons stay pumped, and, of course, count each and every gas mask filter you use.
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Its pneumatic gripper is also only able to grab certain goods, making it tricky to use for a lot of common warehouse tasks, like loading or unloading a truck.
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Its 20 individual joints are controlled by small pneumatic muscles—devices that contract or extend, operated by an air-filled, artificial bladder-like contraption that fills or releases air.
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If you're in the habit of consuming mass media right now, you'd practically have to live in a pneumatic tube to immunize yourself from Elizabeth Holmes and her company.
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They resemble pneumatic apparatuses at once erotic and lethal, suspended between surrealism and science fiction, drawn with a loopy hand that balances the rigorously volumetric with the flamboyantly cartoonish.
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Doing so could help them spot potential issues such as a malfunctioning pneumatic valve, a storage tank that isn't properly venting gases, or a compressor station that isn't working.
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His father, who works in New York, is the general manager and the chief executive of Rupes USA, a Colorado-based manufacturer of pneumatic power tools and vacuum systems.
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It would be better for it to use a tether carrying power and air cables, so it could stay aloft indefinitely and use a more powerful pneumatic nail gun.
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However, drivers might feel uncomfortable when driving with airless tires, because they are hard and do not absorb shocks from the road surface very well compared to pneumatic tires.
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The idea was Hyperloop — "some enlarged version of the old pneumatic tubes used to send mail and packages within and between buildings"— could ease urban congestion and reduce travel times.
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There's an inherent masochism to it—massive kick drums shatter sternums and cochlea with the force of a pneumatic hammer at speeds that often top out at over 200 BPM.
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That was in 1999 or so, back when Sears still ruled the malls around DC. "Missssster BIGGS," yelled the service guy over the din of daytime TV and pneumatic tools.
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Even the newspaper industry — which used linotype machines and pneumatic tubes when I started as a copy boy in the 20th century — has a lot in common with tech companies.
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The company is switching to pneumatic pumps designed to reduce methane leaks, implementing new leak detection and repair programs and investing in new research, it said in a Monday statement.
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So Sorting came up with a pneumatic system that uses cameras, computer vision, polished surfaces and silicone suction cups to identify and move cards from stack to stack with limited contact.
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After the company bought Kinema Systems, it started selling the startup's Pick robot, a static industrial arm equipped with pneumatic suckers that uses deep learning to see the world around it.
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The root of the problem is a technological artifact left over from the pneumatic controls that were once the go-to method to modulate airflow to each zone in a building.
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With a 9.5-inch-wide deck (about the widest one you'll find) and 10-inch pneumatic tires (on the larger end of scooter tires), I never felt in danger of falling.
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In Salqin, men use shovels, pick axes and pneumatic drills to dig a trench in an olive grove as part of another civilian campaign, this one called "the Popular Resistance Battalions".
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Some of the original carpet was found beneath the pneumatic tube station, which was still in place, and a carpet company was able to analyze the color and pattern to recreate it.
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First pneumatic and hydraulic, and more recently fully electronic, these figures create a feeling of life and emotion inside rides and attractions, in shows and, increasingly, in interactive ways throughout the parks.
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The mannequin hung out for 24 hours at a time, for three days total, in each apartment, noisily inhaling and exhaling with its pneumatic mechanical lungs through its hole of a mouth.
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There is also vivid description of a racist porno, naked kids trained in "erotic play," state-mandated casual sex, and frequent reminders of how sexworthy and "pneumatic" the main female character is.
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The 1900 edition of Ladies' Home Journal predicted that, within the century, pneumatic tubes would deliver goods to homes and the letters C, X, and Q would drop out of the alphabet.
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Organized by Chief Curator Scott Rothkopf and Assistant Curator Laura Phipps, Sculpture Gardens is a mix of gathering spaces — with its half-log wooden benches — and a "sculpture garden" connected by pneumatic tubes.
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On a day when the Italian team enjoyed a rare edge over dominant Mercedes, the German missed out on the final top 10 qualifying shootout as mechanics worked on the engine pneumatic system.
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Wertz loves New York down to its guts: the pneumatic tubes that stretch the length of the island and were once used to send gusts of letters from one post office to another.
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In one of the company's more ambitious patents, Amazon proposed a subterranean tunnel system to deliver orders through conveyor belts, rail or pneumatic tubes that would be able to bypass congestion on roadways.
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As part of this plan, the country says it hopes to build a Hyperloop, a massive, high-speed pneumatic transit system that would travel between several cities in Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
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GENEVA, Sept 10 (Reuters) - The World Trade Organization (WTO) Appellate Body on Tuesday broadly upheld an April 2018 panel ruling against South Korea's anti-dumping duties on imports of pneumatic valves from Japan.
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It's essentially a theme park ride, where a 4.4-foot (1.34-meter) pneumatic tube shoots a capsule 104 miles per hour (168 kilometers per hour) to a height of nearly 400 feet (120 meters).
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The company's CEO builds rockets, once planned to power the entire island of Puerto Rico with his solar panels, and hopes to connect global cities with a series of high-speed, underground pneumatic tubes.
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The industry is undergoing its most dramatic shift in how services are provided to the everyday client since the pneumatic tube was stripped from suburban drive-through locations and replaced with the automated teller.
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In many ways, the series is Groening's most ambitious to date, trading in the streets of Springfield and pneumatic tubes of New New York for a fantasy world somewhere between Westeros and Middle Earth.
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In 2013 it developed a fuel-efficient "Hybrid Air" system with Bosch and was ready to take the pneumatic-hydraulic drivetrain into production, but failed to find another manufacturer willing to split the investment.
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For this old and old-school Nintendo player, most were familiar and some were new — the cat suit and pneumatic glass pipes from Super Mario 3D World in particular took some getting used to.
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By using a mix of hydraulic and pneumatic lines, there are half as many cables running through the robot's limbs, which reduces its weight, its overall size, and increases its response time and precision.
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Stretched nearly from wall to wall, the piece resembles a wide curtain with an entryway cut in the middle, where six pneumatic tentacles emerge and ultimately blossom into clusters of long, finger-like cones.
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The built-in pneumatic spring mechanism allows you to go from sitting to standing by the turn of a knob so your coworkers won't be looking on in amusement as you make the switch.
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Some engineers have looked at using soft, insulating materials called dielectric elastomers as an alternative to pneumatic actuators, but they also require rigid components and high voltage to deal with their complex and inefficient circuitry.
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The requirement to install electronically controlled pneumatic brakes had been included in a package of safety reforms the Obama administration unveiled in 2015 following a series of deadly derailments stemming from the U.S. shale boom.
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"The concept Otherlab has been developing for around seven years has been this idea of Fluidic Robots, hydraulic and Pneumatic Robots that are very cheap," Cavalcanti told TechCrunch in a conversation ahead of today's event.
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The company planned to partner with Saudi Arabia on a massive, high-speed pneumatic transit system, and Branson suspended a $1 billion investment into his space company, Virgin Galactic, from Saudi Arabia's public investment fund.
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This is the Keiser in real life: A machine that applies resistance not with static weights or Pilates-like coils but with copper tanks of pneumatic pressure that resemble "Fast and Furious" canisters of nitrous.
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Art handlers are the workhorses of the museum world, with duties that range from the mundane (lugging sculptures) to the challenging (operating pneumatic liftgates) as they install the shows that the public will later see.
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In 1999, in the same area, a helicopter with seven people on board crashed and slid down a hill, striking some trees and rolling over after an engine failure caused by a loose pneumatic fitting.
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HaptX is bringing touch to VR with a pair of scary-looking gloves and a pneumatic suitcase Needless to say at this point, the virtual reality industry's consumer ambitions haven't quite panned out as expected.
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"I think we are a long way from airless tires on passenger cars... When the cost, performance, lifespan, and recyclability are competitive with pneumatic tires, then there's a chance they could enter the consumer space."
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And if it wasn't obvious before "Janet(s)," well, the sight of a giant pneumatic tube leading to "the real" Good Place should have been a big clue that everybody would be headed there soon enough.
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As much as any stabber would, in boasting of his technique in a dockside bar, compare his thrust to the steady, irresistible force exerted by a pneumatic cylinder, we all know it's just not that simple.
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This is the real-world application that the project desperately needs to be embraced by the mainstream—a full-scale demonstration of the technology which might prove to critics that pneumatic tube transit is the future.
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This is the reason there's a suitcase-sized box filled with pneumatic actuators, which the company says has been rapidly shrinking and will be much smaller by the time the product exits the dev kit phase.
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The 154-pound (70 kg) carbon fiber pod is powered by a 50kW electric motor and features pneumatic friction brakes that allow the pod to come to a standstill within five seconds, according to the team.
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Zhang and her colleagues at Berkeley and at nearby mechanical engineering firm Taylor Engineering suspected that the old pneumatic rule of thumb and other accepted wisdom on ventilation was causing the indoor equivalent of wind chill.
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As Atlas Obscura writes, shy club-goers used a system of pneumatic tubes (through which cylindrical containers transport items) and private telephones set up at each of the venue's tables to send messages to other clubbers.
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While the nuts and bolts of creating a giant pneumatic tube system that can blast pods over long distances at high speeds is here, a real Hyperloop that humans might use to commute faces plenty more challenges.
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The technical term for the artificial muscles that make a soft robot move is "actuators," and historically these actuators have relied on hydraulic or pneumatic components (which make use of liquids or compressed gases, respectively) to function.
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The self-playing instruments use a pneumatic or electro-mechanical mechanism to feed pre-programmed music into a piano so that it can play sans player—a novel, if not entirely practical, way to listen to music.
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Now, thrash can utilize influences from the subgenres that it spawned, whether that's the pneumatic crush of industrial, the bloody gurgles of death metal, the sexy swing of groove metal, or the dark esotericism of black metal.
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To further minimize the robot's weight, instead of using heavy pneumatic actuators that require hoses attached along the arm's length to pump hydraulic fluid, the Giacometti Arm takes advantage of lightweight artificial muscles to move its individual segments.
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I haven't seen a virtual reality glove system that also includes a suitcase-sized pneumatic box accessory, but then again there aren't too many VR peripherals that have delivered quite the depth of immersion of the HaptX system.
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In the specific case of the pit crew, these different phases corresponded to the car entering the box, the car entering the box to the pneumatic gun-on, and the crucial moments from gun-on to gun-off.
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Inventor Alfred Ely Beach helped kick off a nationwide building frenzy in 1870, when he revealed that the secretive postal tube project he was working on under New York City's Broadway was actually an underground pneumatic transit prototype.
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The so-called 'Waterloop,' (bonus points for puns) got a test run yesterday, making the team the first to demonstrate a functioning, pneumatic levitation system on a test track using nothing but air to float their test objects.
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The requirement to install electronically controlled pneumatic brakes had been included in a package of safety reforms unveiled by the Obama administration in 3003 in response to a series of deadly derailments stemming from the U.S. shale boom.
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The human operator may not be required to see the robot to control it, but they must be relatively close to it as the controls they use are directly connected to the bot through those hydraulic and pneumatic cables.
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Two collection devices exist: a cylinder with lids on each end called a detritus sampler and one that is a cross between a vacuum and one of those pneumatic tubes at a drive-through bank called a suction sampler.
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The record's beats, for example, include sample sources like a pneumatic espresso maker and the clanking of an oven door, amplified and doctored to industrial-grade effect, evoking a mysterious, rickety ship with air-lock doors and metal enclosures.
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General Motors and tire manufacturer Michelin are in a new partnership on a prototype of a radical new type of wheel designed to replace the conventional pneumatic tires and wheels that automakers have relied on for more than a century.
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These adaptations included such things as small skulls, long necks and tails, column-like legs, rapid bone growth, and pneumatic vertebrae, where air spaces exist within the bones to make them light (a trait that still exists in modern birds).
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A horticulturist gently snipped a dandelion growing in a vial and pointed to a pneumatic tube system where the seeds would be evaluated and eventually dumped into the seed sorting department, the archived collection of hundreds of thousands of dandelion seeds.
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If I couldn't be the cool girl who drank whiskey straight and made wild decisions (like building a side table with pneumatic power tools while extremely intoxicated) and called it Joan-Jetting, how could anything else I had to offer compare?
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German automation company Festo and China's Beihang University have built a prototype OctopusGripper, which has a pneumatic tentacle made of silicone that gently wraps itself around an object, while air is pumped in or out of suction cups to grasp it.
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For the fair, he has recreated from photographs the chaotic studio-bedroom of the painter Mose Tolliver, another southern outsider, but the main event are two walls covered by Tolliver's canvases and the slightly pneumatic figures and creatures that inhabit them.
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Then there's experimental group Ant Farm's Clean Air Pod, which hovered between object and space: staged as an artistic intervention on the streets of Berkeley, the 40-by-40-foot pneumatic bubble was intended to draw awareness to air pollution.
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Maybe it was my favorite virtual reality experience of all, which is an embarrassing thing to say about a game where dominatrices with pneumatic Lara Croft bodies peg a male avatar who's strapped into a torture chair with a chain around his scrotum.
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At one point our protagonist is put on a line where the work requires use of just one shoulder to rivet with a heavy pneumatic gun, a repeated motion that will deform him by twisting his back and bulking his muscles asymmetrically.
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But railroads have also resisted rules that might have mitigated the Mosier accident and other derailments around the country, said Sarah E. Feinberg, the administrator at the Federal Railroad Administration, specifically outfitting trains with modern braking systems, called electronically controlled pneumatic braking.
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Hyperloop, a brainchild of Elon Musk is "a tube over or under the ground that contains a special environment," theoretically magnetic or similar to the pneumatic tubes used to send mail and packages within and between buildings (with some major technical challenges).
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SMAC claims to be taking advantage of its wide technical edge over old tech competitors such as pneumatic or electric ball screw and moving magnet actuators, and has carved out an expanding number of applications to overcome known problems in a variety of industries.
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Flight simulators have been around since the early 1930s, when an enterprising young man called Edwin Link realized that the pneumatic systems his family used in their church-organ business could adjust the attitude of a pseudo cockpit as if it were in flight.
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And what seemed most radical at Celine, in a season when almost every designer is chasing the runaway success that Demna Gvasalia achieved at Balenciaga with the pneumatic and ostentatiously ugly $900 Triple S trainers, is that there was not a sneaker in sight.
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You would definitely still feel the impact if this pneumatic tentacle bumped into you while it was moving around, but since it's designed to be flexible and pliable, most of the collision should be absorbed, resulting in little to no injuries for a human co-worker.
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Take the ground clearance, for example: the B2000 sits 22018 and a half inches off the ground, even at the wheels, which can be raised or lowered by five inches to help navigate tough terrain using the truck's self-leveling, four-wheel independent hydro-pneumatic suspension.
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The EPA said last week that it would pause for 90 days the standards mandating pneumatic pumps at oil and natural gas well sites to reduce methane emissions, along with the certification standards for those pumps, while it considers whether to formally repeal the rule entirely.
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Hyperloop One, a three-year-old, L.A.-based company working to create near-supersonic trains that can whisk both passengers and cargo in giant pneumatic tubes at speeds of many hundreds of miles per hour, has raised $85 million in fresh funding, as first reported in Recode.
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In a pit stop on Earth, four "wheel gunners" attack the tires, using a pneumatic wrench to pop off the wheel's single lug nut; one tire carrier pulls off the used donut, another pops the fresh one on, and the gunner sticks the lug nut back on.
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It was incredibly noisy; it sounded like a pneumatic drill, and black smoke billowed from the motor of the hydraulic claw as it reached out to scoop ice before dropping it into a hopper, where it was pulverised and sent rattling down into the vast tanks on the barge.
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This was the latest iteration of "Organic Concept," a series of performances by the New York–based artist in which he pumps up a continuous roll of painter's plastic with a box fan, bringing to life a room-sized pneumatic sculpture that resembles the braided contours of human viscera.
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The so-called "safety bicycle," with wheels of equal size and a chain mechanism that allowed pedaling to drive the back wheel, along with the arrival of the pneumatic tire, had transformed cycling from an acrobatic and somewhat perilous enterprise into a pleasurable, less hazardous and even utilitarian recreation.
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Through the fluid interplay of its pneumatic joints, the arch of its mechanical brow, the tilt of its plastic skull, the many subtle movements achieved through years of research studying the human template, the android becomes more able to span that gap, to form a perfectly engineered bond with us.
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Robotics engineer and YouTube creator James Bruton has teamed up with University of Portsmouth students to create a robot that fights humans in real life while they're playing in VR. The robot wheels around on a wooden base, and has pneumatic punching arms made from 3D-printed parts and foot pumps.
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Whether his remarks are pure, unfettered ignorance or the naturally occurring residue of deals brokered behind closed pneumatic doors, well that's another question altogether, and one perhaps best definitively answered by your preferred fake news vendor (TechCrunch is not a certified member of the Fake News Consortium at this time).
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