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THE genius team behind the Vespa scooter has now turned its hand to robotic luggage.
Piaggio Fast Forward have created a robotic personal butler that carries your belongings for you, and even does your shopping, The Sun reports.
Reminiscent of Star Wars’ R2D2, the two-wheeled machine called “Gita” can track its owner and roll along behind them, carrying their items inside its storage bucket, which is opened by flipping the top open.
It has a zero turning radius and top speed of about 35 km/h, so can keep up whether its owner is on foot or on bike, while carrying 18kg worth of goods.
The electronically powered droid is also capable of operating autonomously in a mapped environment, making it able to perform deliveries and pick-ups on its own.
Jeffrey Schnapp, Chief Executive Officer of Piaggio Fast Forward, said: “Think about how much more freely you would be able to move from one point to another if lugging cumbersome items was removed from the equation.
“Gita frees up the human hand to focus on complex and creative everyday tasks by taking over mundane transportation chores.
“You can also send your Gita off on missions while you are busy doing something more pressing.”
The robot is designed to match the full range of human mobility, with speeds that extend from a crawl to a sprint.
It also operates inside and out, on pavements and streets, just like a person.
Piaggio Fast Forward have created a robotic personal butler that carries your belongings for you, and even does your shopping, The Sun reports.
Reminiscent of Star Wars’ R2D2, the two-wheeled machine called “Gita” can track its owner and roll along behind them, carrying their items inside its storage bucket, which is opened by flipping the top open.
It has a zero turning radius and top speed of about 35 km/h, so can keep up whether its owner is on foot or on bike, while carrying 18kg worth of goods.
The electronically powered droid is also capable of operating autonomously in a mapped environment, making it able to perform deliveries and pick-ups on its own.
Jeffrey Schnapp, Chief Executive Officer of Piaggio Fast Forward, said: “Think about how much more freely you would be able to move from one point to another if lugging cumbersome items was removed from the equation.
“Gita frees up the human hand to focus on complex and creative everyday tasks by taking over mundane transportation chores.
“You can also send your Gita off on missions while you are busy doing something more pressing.”
The robot is designed to match the full range of human mobility, with speeds that extend from a crawl to a sprint.
It also operates inside and out, on pavements and streets, just like a person.
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Wow!looks like those days of breaking my back carrying two thirty packs are over!
He really was sitting on a gold mine.
Leston Lawrence, a Royal Canadian Mint worker convicted of stealing 22 gold “pucks” by smuggling them in his rectum, was sentenced to 30 months in prison on Thursday, the Ottawa Citizen reported.
“I’d just like to say thank you, sir, and that’s it,” Lawrence, 35, told Ontario Justice Peter Doody, who also ordered the former mint refinery operator to pay a fine of $US145,900 ($190,734). “No further comment,” reports the New York Post .
Lawrence was convicted in November of stealing the gold pieces, worth more than $127,000, during a three-month period beginning in late 2014 and then reselling them and spending the proceeds. Lawrence, a mint employee for seven years before he was fired in March 2015, was planning a new home in Jamaica and sent roughly $25,000 to a contractor in the Caribbean.
Lawrence also invested another $26,000 in a commercial fishing boat in Florida and sent wire payments out of Canada to himself and another man, while withdrawing more than $30,000 in cash, the newspaper reports.
While Lawrence’s smuggling method was never proven, Doody said he believed Lawrence must have hidden the gold pieces — roughly about as wide as a golf ball — in his rectum as he left work after his shifts. Vaseline and latex gloves were found in Lawrence’s locker, and he set off a metal detector inside the building 28 times in a span of 41 days, despite gold never being found on his body, the newspaper reports.
Lawrence’s scheme was discovered in early 2015 when an alert teller noticed he was a mint employee while he was making a large deposit. She then alerted the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Four stolen gold pieces later were found in his safe deposit box and they matched in size and shape those produced in a refinery process, the newspaper reports.
Leston Lawrence, a Royal Canadian Mint worker convicted of stealing 22 gold “pucks” by smuggling them in his rectum, was sentenced to 30 months in prison on Thursday, the Ottawa Citizen reported.
“I’d just like to say thank you, sir, and that’s it,” Lawrence, 35, told Ontario Justice Peter Doody, who also ordered the former mint refinery operator to pay a fine of $US145,900 ($190,734). “No further comment,” reports the New York Post .
Lawrence was convicted in November of stealing the gold pieces, worth more than $127,000, during a three-month period beginning in late 2014 and then reselling them and spending the proceeds. Lawrence, a mint employee for seven years before he was fired in March 2015, was planning a new home in Jamaica and sent roughly $25,000 to a contractor in the Caribbean.
Lawrence also invested another $26,000 in a commercial fishing boat in Florida and sent wire payments out of Canada to himself and another man, while withdrawing more than $30,000 in cash, the newspaper reports.
While Lawrence’s smuggling method was never proven, Doody said he believed Lawrence must have hidden the gold pieces — roughly about as wide as a golf ball — in his rectum as he left work after his shifts. Vaseline and latex gloves were found in Lawrence’s locker, and he set off a metal detector inside the building 28 times in a span of 41 days, despite gold never being found on his body, the newspaper reports.
Lawrence’s scheme was discovered in early 2015 when an alert teller noticed he was a mint employee while he was making a large deposit. She then alerted the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Four stolen gold pieces later were found in his safe deposit box and they matched in size and shape those produced in a refinery process, the newspaper reports.
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new species of gecko of northern Madagascar, slips out of skin to escape.
GEK NAKED
A Melbourne man has dropped everything to encourage his neighbours to fix a privacy issue with their newly erected house.
James Penlidis discovered the second storey of his neighbours' new house had clear windows overlooking his yard so he decided to stride nude around his property until it was fixed.
His protest began last week after he says he got nowhere with the local council, the builder or the private building surveyor.
Posting daily updates and pictures to Facebook, the Bentleigh man drank martinis nude in his yard on day one of his protest.
He cleaned the gutters naked on day two, and painted his house unclad on day three.
"They are avoiding their windows today," he posted on day four as he cooked a BBQ in the raw.
Seeing Mr Penlidis proudly riding an exercise bike in his garden on day five may have been the sealer.
The neighbours frosted their windows on Saturday - day six of Mr Penlidis' action.
"If they wanted to look into my house, I was going to give them something to look at," he told 3AW on Thursday.
Glen Eira Council has been contacted for comment.
Glen Eira Council's planning director said a building permit for a single dwelling is issued by a private building surveyor, and the permit cannot be shared with neighbours without the owner's consent.
"In these cases, it is the private building surveyor who decides what level of privacy protection is required, not council," Ron Torres told AAP in a statement.
James Penlidis discovered the second storey of his neighbours' new house had clear windows overlooking his yard so he decided to stride nude around his property until it was fixed.
His protest began last week after he says he got nowhere with the local council, the builder or the private building surveyor.
Posting daily updates and pictures to Facebook, the Bentleigh man drank martinis nude in his yard on day one of his protest.
He cleaned the gutters naked on day two, and painted his house unclad on day three.
"They are avoiding their windows today," he posted on day four as he cooked a BBQ in the raw.
Seeing Mr Penlidis proudly riding an exercise bike in his garden on day five may have been the sealer.
The neighbours frosted their windows on Saturday - day six of Mr Penlidis' action.
"If they wanted to look into my house, I was going to give them something to look at," he told 3AW on Thursday.
Glen Eira Council has been contacted for comment.
Glen Eira Council's planning director said a building permit for a single dwelling is issued by a private building surveyor, and the permit cannot be shared with neighbours without the owner's consent.
"In these cases, it is the private building surveyor who decides what level of privacy protection is required, not council," Ron Torres told AAP in a statement.
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STAFFY NOT SURE WHERE THE LIZARDS GONE, LIZARD?
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= a staffordshire bull terrier
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there's 12 brunei solders hidden in here , av a go at finding them.
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Sasquatch made of marijuana leaves shows up during reporter’s live shot
Sasquatch made of marijuana leaves shows up during reporter’s live shot
http://fox61.com/2017/02/10/pot-sas...a-leaves-shows-up-during-reporters-live-shot/
Sasquatch made of marijuana leaves shows up during reporter’s live shot
http://fox61.com/2017/02/10/pot-sas...a-leaves-shows-up-during-reporters-live-shot/
A video posted by North Vic Engines Cobram shows the fight unfold between the venomous spider and the world’s second deadliest snake in a workshop at the Cobram business.
The snake can be seen trying in vain to free itself from the spider’s web before being set upon by the redback which — despite being dwarfed by the snake in size — delivers a final “kill shot” and fatal bite.
The man behind the footage, Brenton Maher said this type of predator battle was more common than most people think, adding that he had found another snake caught in a spider’s web just this morning.
“We had exactly this situation happen about this time last year, and yes the spider won that time too,” he said.
“It’s pretty common around here in the country. We have spiders and snakes and it’s pretty normal,” he said.
“Obviously they’re not nice and you don’t want too many of them but you’ve just got to deal with them. They’re spiders and you can’t control them.”
http://www.news.com.au/technology/s...o/news-story/0a646a59aa71c66446926da9c76533a7
The snake can be seen trying in vain to free itself from the spider’s web before being set upon by the redback which — despite being dwarfed by the snake in size — delivers a final “kill shot” and fatal bite.
The man behind the footage, Brenton Maher said this type of predator battle was more common than most people think, adding that he had found another snake caught in a spider’s web just this morning.
“We had exactly this situation happen about this time last year, and yes the spider won that time too,” he said.
“It’s pretty common around here in the country. We have spiders and snakes and it’s pretty normal,” he said.
“Obviously they’re not nice and you don’t want too many of them but you’ve just got to deal with them. They’re spiders and you can’t control them.”
http://www.news.com.au/technology/s...o/news-story/0a646a59aa71c66446926da9c76533a7
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