最擅长精细农业的以色列，发明了一款“摘甜椒机器人”

目前正是利于机器人进入农场的一个好时机。 编者按：本文编译自Wired原题为“THE CREEPY-CUTE ROBOT THAT PICKS PEPPERS WITH ITS FACE”的文章。 放心好了，机器人短期之内仍然无法占领我们这个世界，因为即便是最基本的一些操作任务也会让他们无所适从。你想过如果让机器人自己去采摘一枚成熟的甜椒会有多难吗？ 说实话，我也没有想过这个问题，但显然来自以色列 ...
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A New(ish) Pitch on the Block

The sweeper — a horizontal slider — had long been lumped in with other breaking balls. Thanks to a change in the Statcast system, it is suddenly its own thing. Clarke Schmidt is one of several Yankees ...
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MLB’s trendiest pitch, the sweeper, has its problems — but with familiar fixes

The whirly. The hand of God. The sweeper. The slutter. The riding slider. Baseball’s newest pitch has many different names, but mostly one form. It’s a slider that, because of the way the seams are ...