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RINO International (OTCMKTS:RINO) versus Sarcos Technology and Robotics (NASDAQ:STRC) Head to Head Analysis – Defense World
Posted: May 21, 2022 at 6:08 pm
RINO International (OTCMKTS:RINO Get Rating) and Sarcos Technology and Robotics (NASDAQ:STRC Get Rating) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, institutional ownership, profitability and dividends.
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Sarcos Technology and Robotics has a consensus price target of $8.50, suggesting a potential upside of 107.82%. Given Sarcos Technology and Robotics higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Sarcos Technology and Robotics is more favorable than RINO International.
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RINO International has a beta of -4.71, suggesting that its stock price is 571% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sarcos Technology and Robotics has a beta of 2.68, suggesting that its stock price is 168% more volatile than the S&P 500.
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35.3% of Sarcos Technology and Robotics shares are held by institutional investors. 12.1% of RINO International shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Sarcos Technology and Robotics beats RINO International on 5 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.
About RINO International (Get Rating)
RINO International Corporation, through its subsidiaries, operates as an environmental protection and remediation company in the People's Republic of China. The company engages in designing, manufacturing, installing, and servicing wastewater treatment and flue gas desulphurization equipment primarily for use in the iron and steel industry; and anti-oxidation products and equipment for use in the manufacture of hot rolled steel plate products. Its products include Lamella Inclined Tube Settler Waste Water Treatment System, which comprise industrial water treatment equipment, effluent-condensing equipment sets, solid and liquid abstraction dewatering equipment, and coal gas dust removal and cleaning equipment; and Circulating, Fluidized Bed, Flue Gas Desulphurization System that removes particulate sulphur from flue gas emissions generated by the sintering process in the production of iron and steel; and High Temperature Anti-Oxidation System for hot rolled steel, a set of products and a mechanized system, which reduces oxidation-related output losses in the production of continuous cast hot rolled steel. In addition, it offers contract machining services for third-party industrial enterprises. The company was incorporated in 1984 and is headquartered in Dalian, the People's Republic of China.
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Sarcos Technology and Robotics Corporation designs, develops, and sells robotic systems. Its robotic systems augment human performance by combining human intelligence, instinct, and judgment with machines to enhance employee safety and productivity. The company's mobile robotic systems include the Guardian XO, a full-body powered exoskeleton; Guardian XT, a highly dexterous mobile robot perform; Guardian GT, a force-multiplying dexterous robotic system; and Guardian S, a remote-controlled visual inspection and surveillance robotic system. Sarcos Technology and Robotics Corporation is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Market Is Expected to Boom: ABB, Alphabet, Amazon The Daily Vale – The Daily Vale
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Robotics Grasping and Manipulation Competition Spotlight – Robohub
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Yu Sun, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of South Florida, created and organized the Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competition. Yu talks about the impact robots will have in domestic environments, the disparity between industry and academia showcased by competitions, and the commercialization of research.
Yu Sun is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of South Florida (Assistant Professor 2009-2015, Associate Professor 2015-2020, Associate Chair of Graduate Affairs 2018-2020). He was a Visiting Associate Professor at Stanford University from 2016 to 2017, and received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Utah in 2007. Then he had his Postdoctoral training at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), Cambridge, MA (2007-2008) and the University of Utah (2008-2009).
He initiated the IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Robotic Hands, Grasping, and Manipulation and served as its first co-Chair. Yu Sun also served on several editorial boards as an Associate Editor and Senior Editor, including IEEE Transactions on Robotics, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), ICRA, and IROS.
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Kegan: [00:00:00] Hi, welcome to the Robohub podcast. Would you mind introducing yourself for us please?
Dr. Yu Sun: Sure, certainly. My name is Yu Sun. Uh, Im a professor in the computer science and engineering departments at the University of South Florida. Um, in 2009, I started a lab called the robot perception and action lab, uh, and, uh, we have been working on, uh, several robotics, uh, research problems since then, uh, mainly related to, uh, robot perception and action, but steady the, um, the type of the lab.
Uh, so recently, uh, we, uh, have mainly working on. Um, domestic robotics and try to really, uh, focusing on cooking problems, uh, in a home kitchen. Um, so, uh, to me essentially, um, robot, if a robot can cook, uh, you know, home a kitchen [00:01:00] and, uh, we think, um, uh, the well be able to do all the remaining tasks because, you know, cooking, you know, home kitchen, uh, is, is probably the most complicated, uh, domestic job.
Kegan: Is that where you see robotics really making a large impact in the near future is in the domestic, application?
Dr. Yu Sun: Yeah. In the, um, I think, uh, so first from my point of view, I think if a robot, um, how to grow, uh, If a robot can grow, and we have to have a lot of, uh, commercialization, um, capability and the future, right? So, uh, someone has to, uh, put a lot of investments into this technology and they certainly want to see, uh, revenue, uh, from this technology.
Um, I think everybody pretty much, uh, can see. Uh, if we can get the robots that can, [00:02:00] so robots, uh, in everyones home, uh, that kind of revenue would certainly be able to drive, um, the whole, uh, robotics research forward.
Kegan: Yeah, definitely, and talking of driving robotics forwards, uh, you youve worked with robotic competitions and you have a robotic competition that you help run, right.
Yu Sun: Yes, I do. Um, I work, uh, we, um, uh, a few researchers, uh, in the field and, uh, uh, starting, uh, started this competition in 2016. Its called the robotics grasping and manipulation competitions. And, uh, so this year, um, this is the fifth time were going to run this and were going to run this at, ICRA and IROS.
Kegan: Cool. What motivated you to start this competition?[00:03:00]
Dr. Yu Sun: Well, its pretty interesting story at the very beginning. Um, I was tapping into co-chair, uh, there are competition committee. Uh, these are two of my friends and in 2016 for IROS, uh, at that time, uh, we, uh, tried to solicitate people who propose competitions, uh. At that time, dont not allow people wanting to organize.
Um, so Ive been asked to see, okay, is it possible, um, to come up and do some kind of competition? Um, so I, at that time, uh, thought about, uh, you know, there is a lot of research going on. For robotics, grasping and manipulation. And I also do research in that field and, um, and also at that time, uh, industry is a little bit, uh, tempted to apply robots to their applications, but theyre just not sure.
So I, I [00:04:00] found that was a good time to really connect with them both, the academia and industry online side. So what do we can do right over the years? So what do we have? What, what are mature and, uh, and also set that expectation, um, strict, right? So theres a lot of, um, very fancy demo videos on YouTube and the claim robots can do everything.
And, um, you know, uh, people industry seeing that to really have a, a wrong, um, kind of expectation. So, uh, competition, I think serve, uh, uh, for both, right, for industry people to, uh, get to know what we do, which is mature and all show, uh, what we expect of all academia. Um, people really first demonstrate what they can do.
Um, second, uh, they basically use this as a, uh, as [00:05:00] a way to communicate and with industry, and also at the same time, getting some feedback from the industry to really see what kind of problem they are interested in.
Kegan: Interesting. Is that something youve seen in the last, you said that its been going for five years?
Dr. Yu Sun: Uh, has there been sort of that back and forth with industry and academia?
Yeah, sure. Suddenly, uh, we were really, uh, fortunate enough to get a lot of sponsors at the very beginning. So over the years, every year we have. Uh, some support from the industry. Um, usually there are multiple companies, um, either provide a price money or the even provide, um, uh, travel support.
Um, so we, we need to get a lot of, uh, support from the industry. Um, and, uh, we also seen a lot, the teams, um, can work their technology and commercialized their technology. And also the, uh, become a startup, right. So I think we [00:06:00] have, uh, at least two teams. I know two or three, I think maybe three teams, um, after the competition, the, a, uh, startup and they, basically, it has been quite successful.
And also I also have seen, uh, a small startup, um, participated in 2016 and they called to be picked up for more, uh, venture capital, uh, and, uh, they grow very fast from there. Um, so yeah, we, we, we do see a lot of progress.
Kegan: Wow. Thats great. Im sure it, its something that can bring together people from a lot of different backgrounds and, and, and, you know, industry and academia and that seems awesome.
Uh, what contributions have you seen from the, the competition or what, what value do you see that the competition is bringing to you personally and maybe more from an academia side?
Dr. Yu Sun: yeah, from academia side, I think a lot of times, uh, you know, [00:07:00] we, each of us, uh, well work on our own things.
Right? So, um, uh, we, we attend conferences. We kinda know what other people are doing. Uh, but we really dont, um, have a, uh, a lot of ideas of how, and when this can be commercialized or what are the industry needs and really need. Uh, so for me, um, organize, organize this. I basically. Uh, starting to solicitate, uh, research problems from the research industry.
So before, uh, our first competition, I send out the emails to the robotics mailing list and asked people to, um, send us the problem they think are interesting and important and need to be solved. And, uh, we got a lot of replies and, uh, from that, so we come out from its about 30 problems, uh, I think exactly 30, uh, 36 problems.
Um, [00:08:00] and we formulate them and, uh, you know, can work into past, uh, pools essentially. We use that task pool for a few years. Um, and also at the same time, I, uh, reach out to, um, some companies and, uh, companies, including manufacturing companies and the resistor companies. And uh, many other companies and I went to their facility and talk to them, uh, for example:
I talked with, um, uh, manufacturing, uh, directors, um, at Samsung, um, they working with a small electronics and to try to make them and they have a lot of industry problems. And a lot of people were not aware of such as putting cables and, uh, uh, inserting, uh, handling flexible cables, uh, those kinds of things.
Um, so we incorporate them [00:09:00] into, uh, our competition tasks and, uh, um, yeah, because thats the experience. I think I learned a lot and really got to better picture, uh, what the field looks like. Um, mature. And what are still, I think is in infancy.
Kegan: It seems like a great, um, opportunity to learn as well, too, to find a, find a competition, to sort of learn and, and try to reach for something.
Do you see that the people that are, competing in these competitions are the same set of people or, do you have new people coming in and, and, um, um, sort of entering the field through a competition, I guess.
Dr. Yu Sun: Right. Um, we do, we do see both. We see, uh, several teams and basically continue, uh, in the competition, you know, over a year.
And we can see, um, how they grow, and in the beginning of they can do a little. And, uh, um, their standing [00:10:00] in the, in the competition, uh, at very beginning is not as good. And then over the years, the, um, continually improve their technology and we can see their performance has improved dramatically.
Uh, every year we also see new teams and, um, you know, uh, teams coming in. And, uh, so first the, the, the, the, um, kind of, at a certain stage, right? So at a certain stage, the people they are ready to show what they can do. Um, so, um, yeah, so we, we always have a new people, uh, to reach that stage and, uh, and they want to participant.
Kegan: Do you have any recommendations for people that want to get started in competitions either, I guess, starting a competition or joining an existing competition and working on it?
Dr. Yu Sun: Yeah. Well, participating in our competition. Uh, I think, uh, theres many different ways. Um, first we [00:11:00] have, uh, three different tracks this year and they usually, every year we have, uh, uh, different tracks, uh, this year.
Uh, we have this cloud, um, kind of, uh, uh, track and its, uh, its called the OCR talk, um, its uh, its uh, basically we provide a robotic platform for everyone on cloud. Um, so people can, um, program and, uh, create their solutions and submit, and therell be people basically can run, uh, the submission, on a standarized platform.
So that lowers the barrier, right? So you dont even need to have a robotic system to participate. Um, and we all show in that track, we also provide simulator so you can simulate, and then we can, we provide the real robot, a system you can upload, or we can run that for you. Um, then, um, on the other side, if you [00:12:00] have a robotic system and, uh, then you can decide which direction is your passion, right?
So we have, uh, two tracks, uh, on service, uh, robotics and another is on manufacturing. So if youre interested in, uh, domestic service, uh, so you can participate in that. And if youre interested in manufacturing problems and we do have that track and Joe Falco take the lead on that side and from a, he is from the NIST.
Um, he, uh, viewed, uh, this nice task board. And then we send everyone to task board to for free, and then they can try those task boards, at their lab and. Um, you know, if they feel they can do whatever well, then they can move forward. Yeah,
Kegan: Why robotic, grasping, and manipulation, why that competition, um, specifically, and youve kind of touched on this
Dr. Yu Sun: Right. So grasping [00:13:00] manipulation is a very old problem, right? So we can, you can understand its, uh, its a fundamental problem at the very beginning of robotics.
People want to do something, right? So you you want to do something how to, uh. How to touch something you, how to change the environment, right? Youd be wanting to change the environment. You have to touch it, but how you use hand and the arm, uh, those kinds of things. And, uh, so thats why it robotics, uh, grasping on the manipulation is very important.
Its a fundamental problem. Um, it needs to be solved to me, and thats the reason I get into this direction, because I think if robotics is wanting to go anywhere. Uh, the grasping and the manipulation, um, needs to be solved.
Kegan: Have you always seen yourself working in this area even more generally, you know, have you always seen yourself going into robotics and computer science or STEM or, or whats your, whats your history kind of.
Dr. Yu Sun: Oh, [00:14:00] okay. Yeah, thats quite interesting. Um, I do have, um, quite a diverse background. Um, so, um, when I was doing my bachelors degree, uh, I, I mainly, uh, I majored in, uh, automation, uh, particularly in the direction of, uh, control theory. Uh, I also have a minor, uh, in mathematics. Um, so during my, uh, uh, bachelors degree program and, uh, I learned a lot, uh, control theories, obviously.
And, um, uh, mathematics, um, also, uh, like circuit designs and, uh, also sensory designs, uh, mechatronics uh, mechanical designs and, uh, uh, also even, you know, force analysis for. Building the [00:15:00] substructures. And obviously as at the time, um, you know, full controls, we helped to learn computers. So I learned a lot of architecture, uh, programs, and even I learned AI at that time.
Um, then I, uh, went to Japan and, uh, I got my bachelors and masters degrees in China. Then when I went to Japan and to become a software engineer and, uh, started to, uh, do, uh, lab application development for, uh, Uh, for phones at that time, I think its was the infancy of a smartphones. They didnt really have a smart phones.
They only have a very tiny screen, but they want to use a phone to, um, get access to internet and, uh, you know, access to some of the applications. Um, then I, uh, uh, got into, uh, University of Utah, uh, started, uh, [00:16:00] PhD program, um, uh, study and, uh, I in the computer science department and the school of computing, uh, uh, and I worked with, uh, John Hollaback and I started to learn robotics.
I think my diverse background helped me, uh, in robotics because, you know, when we deal with, uh, robots, we, how to deal with robots as a whole. And, uh, there are just so many different components, um, of a robot, right? So, and anything can go wrong. So if you really not want to deal with, uh, electronics, or youre not want to deal with AI and not want to deal with programming.
Its not going to go very well, because any part of this system can go wrong. Um, if you dont really know whats happening, uh, is going to take a lot of time, uh, to, to really get something working.
Kegan: Robotics is very interdisciplinary and you really have to think [00:17:00] about all of it.
Um, what did you do any competitions while you were a PhD student or, or.
Dr. Yu Sun: Yeah. Yeah. Thats a very good insight, in 2007. Uh, there is a DARPA, uh, urban challenge. So I participated in there, uh, at that time. Uh, I was, uh, I did my last year of, uh, I had my last year of my PhD program. Um, and, uh, Pretty much in charge.
I work with a lot of people, right? So we, we have a big team. I think we have about 10 people. And at that time I think, uh, Tom Henderson and, uh, mark, uh, minor, uh, they, they were the team leaders and the ricotta group of, uh, people from mechanical engineering, computer science, uh, participated in this. And I was mainly working on in the [00:18:00] section uh, vehicle detections and negotiating between vehicles, you know, how to follow the rules, the traffic rules of the intersection. Um, yeah, thats, whats quite impressive. I mean, Im talking about the organization of that challenge. Um, I can also see, uh, from that challenge, the whole autonomous vehicle, uh, field has exploded, right?
So, uh, with that common goal. Uh, everybody, bought that common goal and that the research community, um, really, really spend a lot of effort to that, uh, to that, uh, you know, to try to fulfill that kind of vision.
Kegan: Is that? How you see. The robotic grasping competitions and stuff like that, playing out where that really helps then, you know, bring in this domestic robot thats in your house, helping you with all these kinds of tasks and stuff.
Um, do you think like competitions are [00:19:00] necessary to kind of spur on that growth?
Dr. Yu Sun: Yeah. So I think after that too, they are many different competitions and even DARPA perhaps another competition that involves some components of, uh, manipulation. Um, uh, obviously the focus, a lot of walking, uh, but also, uh, in the robotics community.
Uh, many different competitions. A lot of them has to do with domestic service. Uh, every year you have, you can see, uh, some number of the competitions. Um, so what we want to do is, uh, we want to do something, um, consistent, right so we want to keep monitoring the progress. Uh, we want to really understand. Uh, what, what are, uh, kind of, uh, uh, what, are the research problems, what are not, what has been solved and, um, uh, yeah, I think, you know, as I mentioned before, uh, [00:20:00] this, I hope this serve as a, as a bridge between the academia and the industry.
And, uh, um, I always think, uh, all the technology we develop it in academia should be used in industry. Right. We should have, um, find a place to be used and, um, yeah, so thats, thats probably the driving force to need to try to try to, you know, organize it. Its kind of like try to really bring what we can do to industry and to bring whats the research problem, uh, in industry to academia.
And also , you know, you asked me about the whether, you know, DARPA challenge will be the vision. Um, to that I think its very difficult for us to really get to that scale. Right. So DARPA has, uh, probably unlimited budget. Uh, [00:21:00] they have about a billion dollars to spend.
Uh, each year we have some support from the industry, but we never will be able to get, um, you know, a significant amount. Right. And we certainly want to, um, if its possible to form some kind of alliance with key players in industry, um, uh, who real benefit from the growth of robotics and manipulation.
Um, they, if they want to contribute and I think this is a good place to contribute and, uh, so we can certainly organize those kinds of things, getting people together. And, um, yeah to make the event, uh, better and more inclusive.
Kegan: Yeah! In your past, youve worked on medical applications. Is there any overlap between the competition and any sort of medical or hospital application?
Dr. Yu Sun: Well, [00:22:00] uh, not really at this time. Um, so previously I mainly working, um, Uh, in virtual reality for, uh, medical applications? Um, so at that very time, I was mainly tried to, uh, help the surgeons to see better. Um, so the surgeons using endescope, um, for minimum minimum invasive surgery. And, uh, when they, when they use that, um, they.
Have to look at an overhead monitor and the move the, uh, endescope and can look from any directions and that any kind of orientation, so the picture on the overhead monitor, is really, kind of, this display of a certain angle. You dont really know, right. So you really have this terrible hand-eye correlation and it, uh, makes training of surgeons [00:23:00] very difficult.
So we want to solve that kind of problem. So we basically, develop a kind of, um, uh, transparency display and, uh, um, convert the image from the endoscope cameras, um, uh, into, uh, morph image. And it can be projected on the abdomen to generate that transparent effect to give the natural hand-eye correlation to.
Kegan: Yeah, thats awesome. To really help support the surgeons doing their work. Do you think were anywhere close to having a robotic surgeon, um, to a robot actually doing the physical grasping and manipulation thats required for surgery?
Dr. Yu Sun: So first I think certainly, uh, in the future, um, I can see a lot of, uh, uh, research progress in many different labs in academia doing a lot of, uh, surgical robotics research.
And also in the [00:24:00] industry Intuitive surgery is the leader in the industry. Um, making a lot of progress, which there are DaVinci system and each year the, they come up with some kind of, uh, uh, automated, uh, procedures. And, uh, its always interesting to see, um, uh, how much progress they are making as usually very, very impressive.
So for me, um, I mainly. In the last few years, mainly focusing on robotics cooking. So I mentioned in the beginning, um, uh, because as I said, In the domestic environment, cooking is probably the most challenging task. Its involves so many different things and, uh, um, you know, a person you can think about when youre cooking, you have to allocate, recognize objects, allocate them, and really figuring out how [00:25:00] to pick them up, holding them, holding tools.
And you also have to do all kinds of different manipulations, right? So cutting and pouring, a very diverse environment . There was, uh, a number of, uh, objects that you have a different kinds of shapes and tools, right? So God, theres so many tools, so many kinds of sorts in the kitchen and, uh, um, and also, um, you know, manipulations, right.
So how to handle them properly. Yeah, so its a very challenging. So for me, um, we really working on three different aspects of this. The first thing we work on is, uh, knowledge representation and retrieval, so we try to really figure out how to represent this complicated and complex information, when you really do the, do the cooking.
So for us, we understand the recipes. [00:26:00] We even watch a YouTube instructional video. We understand how to do the cooking and how we can, were not to information to robot. Right? So how a robot will be able to gain cooking. So thats one of the things well work on. The second thing we work on is a multi objects grasping.
So not only, um, you know, we, we grasp one object at a time, right? So we do that, but a lot of times, um, uh, at our home kitchen, for example, we want to pick up strawberries from a box. Um, you know, we dont pick one by one. We pick multiple strawberries from the box at one time. And at the same, for eggs the two or three at the same time, and its not only in homein kitchen also industry like logistics, you see people.
Uh, know, stick they pick couple of apples from one bin being put into another [00:27:00] bin. You dont really see, you know, a worker, a human worker pick apple one by one. You know, if that is our number is for example five, right? So they usually pick two and three and then you get to five, um, and also in manufacturing, right?
So we pick up multiple screws at the same time and put them one by one. Um, so thats one of the reasons robotics is not as efficient as a human yet because when they do, when people do picking, we do, we pick multiple at the same time, when robot doing the picking at this time, even the best robots, they still can only do pick one by one.
And with that is by default, its like, uh, you know, two or three times less efficient. Uh, there are. Um, so thats, thats one of the things, um, Ive worked on. Um, and I called this, um, [00:28:00] cookie jar problem because you know, when you have a kid, okay, you can go to the cookie jar, pick some cookies. You dont really see a kid just go in and pick one cookie.
Right. So you can have a kid basically go, goes in, pick a couple of cookies out. And, but if you have a robot and say, okay, robot, you can go to pick up cookies. Just pick one cookie at a time. If there is a competition obviously, then the robot will not win. The kid will win that one. Right. So, uh, thats uh, interesting direction we currently working on and, uh, another direction were working on is, uh, motion generation.
And were particularly working on pouring, uh, because pouring is the most frequent manipulation, uh, motion in cooking and pouring, not only for liquid, like water, oil, honey, [00:29:00] syrup, those kinds of liquid, but also, you know, rice and beans, flour, uh, those kinds of things, and also even large chunks, right?
You caught something you put into a bowl and you dont want to pour the whole thing into, uh, into a pan, portion of that, uh, how will you control, how will you do the, do the pouring? Um, so weve been working on that. Um, so we had a finished, uh, pouring liquid that we do 30 mile, um, precise, uh, pouring liquid, precisely.
And then all we mainly focusing on pouring, um, big chunks, of objects precisely.
Kegan: Interesting. And you mentioned that pouring precisely I could imagine, a lot of challenges in, in doing, in tackling these problems. What do you see as the largest problems right now?
Dr. Yu Sun: Yeah, there are many different challenges. And, uh, while the things is, um, for some reason, we as [00:30:00] humans understand that that dynamics fairly well. We can kind of, we can predict whats going to happen. So we basically compensate our emotions, in terms of how everythings going to fall or how many are going to fall?
We have a pretty accurate prediction. We basically recovered the pouring motion before everything, um, everything basically poured out. And, uh, it is kind of, reversible, right? So if you pour more than you need, and for some of the cases, you will be in trouble, right? So, you cant, just control the pouring speed that you have something falling back into the cup.
So it is more of, uh, irreversible, uh, kind of motion. So we have to do, pretty good job on predicting what is going to happen. The second challenge we also deal with is generalization because we dont want to. Um, you know, [00:31:00] learn something thats only working for this kind of container or this kind of object.
Uh, we want to really learn a skill, a polling skill, follow robots that can basically use any containers and import anything. Um, yeah, so we, we basically, uh, try to use practice, uh, to, to solve this kind of problem because when we, uh, do pour unknown things, we kind of practice a little bit. And then after a couple of times in practice, we will be able to do fairly well.
So we try to use practice to, uh, really modify Ill, uh, Ill transfer our models to this new situation, uh, without, um, a lot of failures. Right. So we are going to make sure the practice is also, uh, doesnt really have failures, but not necessarily to have the best performance from that but at least not have failures.
Kegan: You mentioned that out of this [00:32:00] couple of students have started, uh, companies or, or have gone into industry.
And then I also noticed looking into your background, you have multiple patents. Could you kind of talk about how, um, how, sort of the balance between papers and patents and how patents maybe as a grad student, you know, when to patent or why to patent, or even how to patent your work that youre working on.
Cause like, if youre working on these competitions that are related to industry and industry is looking to use it, um, sort of how does patent play a role in there?
Dr. Yu Sun: Right. So. patent is quite important. If you want to, uh, start thinking about, uh, uh, after you graduate, uh, you may want to, uh, form a startup for example, and, um, uh, during your, um, academia year and, uh, on the doing your research, you probably want to think about building your own IP portfolio, right?
So, um, that gave you [00:33:00] a solid foundation. Uh, um, start to do, uh, this, uh, entrepreneurship, try to try to try to form a startup. Uh, so I think from that point of view, um, its quite, uh, quite important for everyone who wants to go to a startup route, um, in terms of starting, um, uh, when to, uh, apply for a patent.
I think after the time you have a technology, it works and you know, is, you know, it is innovative and thats at the time you should, um, think about the patent and usually university has a patent and licensing office. So you should talk with those patent and the licensing office people, and they can help you to apply.
And they usually, um, however, pair, IP attorneys and they will help you to write it up and draft the claims and everything. [00:34:00] Um, yeah. Then they will apply.
Kegan: Yeah. were getting close to time here, but I like to finish with this. So what are you most excited about moving forward with your research, with anything? What are you most excited about?
Dr. Yu Sun: So Im pretty excited about robotics in general. I think this is the right time for robotics and in terms of, uh, making progress in research and also, um, apply the research outcomes into industry and really getting the technology, uh, used.
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Behind the Buyouts: THL’s Carlisle on Middle Market Robotics, Tech – The Deal Pipeline
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In this installment of The Deals Behind the Buyouts podcast,Thomas H. Lee Partners LPmanaging director Jim Carlisle discusses the firms strategy in middle market technology, including robotics, automation, software and marketplace businesses.
Robotics may call to mind George Jetson, but Carlisle described practical applications in such diverse settings as warehouses, via portfolio companiesAutoStore ASand RightHand Robotics Inc., and hospitals, through technology developed byQventus Inc.Portfolio company Kinexon GmbH develops technology that monitors machinery on factory floors and can also track performance of professional athletes on a basketball court or soccer pitch.
Carlisle also explained how THL breaks down opportunities in vertical software, horizontal software and infrastructure, and the appeal of marketplaces such as food delivery serviceGrubHub Inc.and real estate outfit Ten-X LLC.
Meanwhile, the THL managing director discussed building up portfolio companies through M&A and the symbiotic relationship between the firms Automation and Flagship funds.
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Kin Euphorics Expands With a Mood-Boosting Ros, and Other News – Surface Magazine
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DESIGN DISPATCH Our daily look at the world through the lens of design. BY THE EDITORS May 20, 2022
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Jen Batchelor founded Kin, a non-alcoholic drink best described as euphoric, as a natural concoction that helps you reach the state of happiness were born with and entitled to. Kin doesnt use cannabis either, instead mixing adaptogens, herbs, roots, and nootropics to create an all bliss and no booze experience. The brand, which welcomed supermodel Bella Hadid as a co-founder last year, produces functional formulas made with euphoric actives to conjure cosmic energy and welcome inner peace. It might seem esoteric, but Batchelors background in psychology and herbology means everything she does has scientific support, some coming from Ayurveda, a healing system that spans millennia.
The brand now expands its lineup with Kin Bloom, a mood-boosting and aphrodisiac-infused flavor that fuses summer strawberry, barrel oak, and rosemary citrus. Each ingredient in the sugar- and caffeine-free beverage is intentional: schisandra to conjure clarity, damiana to serve as a playful aphrodisiac, L-Theanine for centeredness, and organic Ashwagandha to elevate mood, ease inflammation, and reduce stress. Kin Bloom doesnt amp you up, just as it doesnt wind you down, per se, Batchelor says, further describing it as the ultimate energy enhancer and a restorative take on an all-day ros. How does she recommend it? Chilled to perfection and in the longest-stem glass I can find. The color is dazzlingit really makes me feel like Im in St. Tropez basking away. Ryan Waddoups
The Athenum cultural district at University of Texas at Dallas. Image courtesy Morphosis
Architecture studio Morphosis has designed a performance hall and two art museums for a new cultural district called Athenum at a Dallas university. The districtofficially called the Edith and Peter ODonnell Jr Athenumwill encompass 12 acres on the main campus of the University of Texas at Dallas. Positioned on the southeastern edge of campus, the district will allow both students and the surrounding community to experience the convergence of art and architecture in ways not previously possible at the university, said Arne Emerson, a partner at Morphosis who is serving as design lead. [H/T Dezeen]
Attendees of a gala May 17 at the Whitney Museum of American Artthe New York institutions principal fundraising event of the yearcould not steer to the entrance without bypassing a clamorous crowd of about 80 protesters, who broke the events veneer of civility and imbued the barren West Chelsea corridor with the aura of a sporting match. Workers at the museum rang bells, chanted, and cheered when taxi drivers and chauffeurs who just dropped off their employers honked in support of them, holding signs that read Honk for a Fair Contract and Union Strong. Artificial grass hedges lined the glass exterior of the lobbypresumably shielding the evenings exclusive guests from the agitation outside. [H/T Hyperallergic]
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A statue of Margaret Thatcher, installed in her hometown of Grantham, was egged just two hours after it was erected on Sunday. When the monument to the divisive British conservative, who was Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990, was announced, local opinion split on whether it would be a welcome addition to the cultural landscape of the town. A Facebook group for an egg throwing contest was started when the statue was announced in 2020 and gained more than 13,000 members. Jeremy Webster, the deputy director of the University of Leicesters Attenborough Arts Center landed the first egg on Sunday, an action that has been criticized by the University. [H/T Artnet News]
Artists can already promote merch and tickets on their Spotify profiles. Now the streaming service is testing a feature that will let them also promote their NFTs. Steve Aoki and The Wombats appear to be two of the artists taking part in the test, both of whom have been among the early adopters of NFTs. The test is currently running for select users of Spotifys Android app in the US, who will be able to preview NFTs on the artists profile pages. They will then be able to tap through to view and buy them from external marketplaces. [H/T Musically]
Uber announced its latest slate of updates Monday ahead of whats expected to be a busy travel and events season. The features, announced during its Go/Get virtual event, include:a new option that lets you book a bus or passenger van; a trip itinerary feature to help book rides throughout an extended trip, like a vacation, from one place to another; voice ordering; and an electric vehicle hub for drivers. Uber has been working toward becoming a super app as a way to diversify its offerings, which could potentially help drive long-term profitability. For example, the company is adding trains, buses, planes and car rentals to its U.K. app this summer. [H/T CNBC]
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#SpaceWatchGL Opinion: Review of Space Resources Week 2022 – Part 1 – SpaceWatch.Global
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By Christophe Bosquillon
This is Part 1 of a review of Space Resources Week 2022, the descriptive part. Part 2 may appear in a subsequent edition with the authors more personal views on several space resource utilization topics in the context of SRW.
We recently attended online the 2022 hybrid 4th edition of Space Resources Week, held in Luxembourg from May 3 to 5. A brief history of this event may remind our readers that, while the 2021 3rd edition was also hybrid, the pre-pandemic 2019 2nd edition managed to produce video material that can still be consulted on the website.
The 1st edition dates back to 2016, when the Spaceresources.lu initiative pioneered Luxembourgs national interest in the space domain: foreign direct investment and regulatory efforts as a jurisdiction focused on leading in space resources utilization. The importance of which is now well acknowledged across not only the whole of European space stakeholders, but sizeable extra-European space actors like US and NASA, or Japan, with JAXA and iSpace European branch. And indeed, while the Space Resources Week (SRW) event itself is strongly anchored in the European ecosystem, its reach is global, with about a hundred international speakers.
As Luxembourgs Minister of the Economy Franz Fayot mentioned during his opening remarks, This event is recognized worldwide and key in bringing the international community together. It underlines the central role of Luxembourg in this field. While space resources offer a means of exploring the Moon and the solar system in a sustainable way, the space resources field can also be a way of stimulating innovation on Earth and finding new ways to address global challenges.
Space Resources Week, an ESRIC-ESA partnership
Organized as a partnership between ESRIC and ESA (the European Space Resources Innovation Centre and the European Space Agency), the Luxembourg part of the SRW equation benefits from involvement by LSA and LIST (the Luxembourg Space Agency and the Luxembourg Institute for Science and Technology).
While the Space Resources Week event itself is strongly anchored in the European ecosystem, its reach is global.
For our readers still not familiar with ESRIC established in Luxembourg in August 2020, and you may verify its mission statement online what wed say ESRIC does, is to help Luxembourg and Europe, and by extension the whole world, to get unstuck from chicken and egg new space business situations, often encountered due to the lack of any real market beyond orbit. So ESRIC understands that the keys are, to not only grow the ecosystem of start-ups, but to help them develop a viable relationship with larger corporate actors and anchor customers, and to do so by developing techno-economic reckoning and funding along entire value chains. What is required to augment deal flows between mainstream industries not yet involved in space market and space industry providers? Is commercial and technical maturity sufficient? But also, for customers to be able to sign on providers, mutual understanding and shared aims at techno-economic and ESG benefits. There again are implications for the role of the public sector governments and space agencies as anchor customers and seed- funders, while working out terms for multi-industry financial instruments to support space value chains.
New ESRIC leadership and a knowledge-sharing platform
While former director Mathias Link took the stage for SRW 2022 closing statements, it turns out the ESRIC directorship baton had passed in April to Dr. Kathryn Hadler, a mineral processing and recovery scientist: her keynote speech revealed the launch of a knowledge-sharing platform for the space resources community, an idea presented last year and now implemented thanks to the LISTs engineers. One of the main expectations of the space resource community is to have access to a centralised and easily exploitable knowledge base. ESRICs knowledge-sharing platform is of great interest to researchers, but it can also highlight business opportunities, said Kathryn Hadler, to which Thomas Kallstenius, CEO of LIST added: Based on technology developed at LIST, this platform is applicable in the field of space resources but could be transposed to other research areas. It is a fantastic tool to link the business vision with the scientific vision.
This years edition focused on the development of a circular economy and a waste recycling system in space, and all the environmental, ethical, and economic sustainability matters related to space mining.
As one could judge through in-presence on-stage questions and the online chat, this message resonated with the over a thousand people attending SRW, whether their interests spanned the business, legal, or tech fields, or all of the above. Especially as these questions intersect with the necessities of functional funding processes as well as the demand for sustainable governance mechanisms. Notwithstanding the fact, this 2022 SRW edition put a direct emphasis on sustainability, circular economy, environmental preservation, and waste treatment in space.
Visibility for 5 start-ups pre-incubated under ESRIC Start-up Support Programme
ESRIC has launched the Start-up Support Programme (SSP) in order to provide early-stage start-ups in the space resources sector with support in 3 key areas: first, to develop their value proposition and a concrete business plan that addresses well-identified real-world customers (rather than a vision plan that addresses abstract and vaguely quantified total addressable markets); second, to effectively engage and make their first deals with their first customers; and third, secure sufficient pre-incubation funding with relevant initial investments.
What is required to augment deal flows between mainstream industries not yet involved in space market and space industry providers?
It cant be emphasized enough that for a start-up founders team with little time, bandwidth, and resources for robust managerial development (before even starting to talk about the cost of acquisition of new customers), the cost of acquisition of initial investors is hardly manageable. In that sense, this initiative by ESRIC is instrumental to enable start-ups to simply exist. In addition to specific challenges encountered in the space resources domain, we would even argue that, not just in space but in (deep) tech at large, the system is somehow broken. In fact a system that can bring together start-ups and investors and also also venture partners developing value propositions and deal flows at the moment doesnt exist, or theres room for improvement. So ESRICs SSP is a move in a right direction, and a proper pathway in order to start small and scale up.
In that context, the Space Resources Week is also an opportunity to showcase the 5 promising start-ups that were selected by ESRICs SSP: Astroport Space Technologies, Anisoprint, Adventus Interstellar, Four Point, and Orbit Recycling were enabled to present on stage, and it is hoped that this visibility will contribute to trigger a virtuous cycle. In addition to this, it should also be mentioned that ESA jointly with ESRIC, has created the ESA-ESRIC Space Resources Challenge, the first European robotics challenge of this nature focused on space resources. Its aim is to help identify prospecting technologies that can be integrated and operationalized in future ESA missions. The grande finale of this challenge will take place in September 2022 at the Rockhal in Belval, so, stay tuned.
An intense program over 3 days
With over 100 speakers, were not going into a detailed review of each of the pitches and fireside chats, however we encourage interested readers who missed the event to watch out for when SRW releases the recordings and materials ontheir website, and to start mining.
Well start our quick review with the 3rd and last day, when everyone is fairly exhausted yet keeps going: the morning scientific session brought a great overview of the ISRU state of the art for the Moon, asteroids, and Mars, and it instilled a fairly strong dose of the kind of realism we need to keep injecting in our techno-economic expectations and manageable TRLs over time. We were quite impressed by the session on analogues and the pivotal technology of simulants to mimic regolith from Moon and Mars. The ESA initiative to develop a self-reliant sourcing of simulants and Sample Analogue Curation Facility sounds propos for strategic autonomy. Next, the Enabling Infrastructures sessions covered critical building blocks from cislunar transportation to energy to metallurgy to vehicles to autonomous systems in mining, etc. In our view the company OHB value proposition as it has evolved is essential to solve the small payload transportation and lunar access problem for all relevant customers. Capability demonstrations were quite convincing, from these amazing Nanoracks to Moon mapping, and many others, from all over the world, including Africa. And the concluding round table discussions covered Pilot plant: the next steps, which is exactly the goal we need to set for ourselves, internationally.
The ESA initiative to develop a self-reliant sourcing of simulants and Sample Analogue Curation Facility sounds propos for strategic autonomy.
Which brings us to the 1st half-day and 2nd full day, during which the concept of there is so much to tackle that we need to cooperate internationally underpin the whole event. While we were honoured to hear NASAs envisioned future priorities plan for ISRU, University of Notre Dame (pronounced differently than in Paris) reminded us that the Moon needs an international lunar resources prospecting campaign (ILRPC). An update on MOXIE, speakers from JAXA and iSpace Europe further made that point. iSpace clarified a resources-to-reserves assessment due process with its LORS framework. OffWorld and Manna demonstrated wise business models built equally on terrestrial and beyond orbit markets. Meanwhile, when favouring autonomous systems as substitutes to biological Earthlings, David Bowie was also present through Space Resources pitch Let all the robots boogie. The Euro2Moon project launched by Airbus, Air Liquide and iSpace Europe, a non-profit European platform to explore future uses of natural lunar resources, demonstrated how well we work between friends and allies outside Europe.
The 2022 edition of SRW strongly hinted there are plenty of opportunities for cross-pollination between use cases on Earth and in space, and potential avenues for space activities benefit sharing, worldwide. This is because this years edition focused on the development of a circular economy and a waste recycling system in space, and all the environmental, ethical, and economic sustainability matters related to space mining. This made the 2nd days legal and regulatory session even more palatable, because it tackled really concrete issues we can relate to, including the reference to the mining concept of a Social License to Operate.
Furthermore, we particularly appreciated the panel discussion under the umbrella of the ESA Innovation and Ventures Office, which nicely called the audiences attention by naming itself How to make the Moon bankable?. The conversation emphasized developing sustainable value chains that speak to investors, while optimizing the role of government and space agencies as anchor customers, to establish financial trust among stakeholders (other than that, we do need a bigger ESA budget, please).
Well be looking forward to the 2023 edition of SRW
This concludes Part 1 of a review of Space Resources Week 2022 (SRW), the descriptive part. Part 2 may appear in a subsequent edition with the authors more personal views on several space resource utilization topics in the context of SRW. In particular, as they resonate from a terrestrial mining industry standpoint. Also taking into account the cost of shipping material in space along the full value chain from mine to transformation to utilization. A cost that will impact the competitiveness of space-faring nations based on their space shipping capabilities and cargo/propellant ratio. A cost that will either make or break the commercial and financial viability of supply chains for a number of resources extracted for example from the Moon. Further considering that, for any space activity, in orbit, in cislunar space, near and or the Moon, and beyond, toward asteroids and Mars, data has a value chain of its own. And that security of SRU assets in orbit and beyond does matter. All being considered, well be looking forward to the 2023 edition of SRW.
Currently based in Europe, Christophe Bosquillon operated globally out of the Indo-Pacific for the best part of the past decades. With a techno-economic background in non-space industries, as well as international affairs and foreign direct investment, Chris maintains a long-standing interest in old and new space, also from a security and policy standpoint. A decade ago, he developed a Legal Hacker interest in the digital transformation governance field, data rights, computational law, and composable governance. Founder of Autonomous Space Futures Ltd., Chris, an experienced corporate boss and business owner, focuses on solutions to develop business cases in and beyond orbit: value propositions TRL-realistic over time, commercially credible, financially sustainable, legally implementable ; optimizing open data and registration in a context of adaptive governance for peaceful and sustainable space activities. While fixing the investee-investors relationship, value creation, and funding processes, Chris currently works out on the steep learning curve of space law, governance, and diplomacy, with the help of diverse friends from all over our precious blue planet.
With several masters but too busy for a PhD, Chris did evolve, lately: being surrounded by doctors and candidates with collaborative pursuits in digital and space law, governance, and policy, does help to collectively re-imagine a future as responsible stakeholders, and design sustainability solutions. Chris likes to bring down siloed mentalities and bridge practitioners and academia, across transdisciplinary teams that produce useful, usable, and used outputs.
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New designated campsites open at Chubb Park in Fourmile Recreation Area – by Ark Valley Voice Staff – The Ark Valley Voice
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As recreation surges, a Colorado State Land Board pilot program for designated public campsites in Chaffee County
The Colorado State Land Board has designated 14 new campsites on its 3,400-acre parcel in the Fourmile Recreation Management Area in Chaffee County. The need for more sites became apparent when the COVID-19 pandemic-driven surge in outdoor recreation resulted in resource damage.
A campsite in the Chubb Park area of Fourmile Recreation Area displays the site destruction and an unsafe fire pit. courtesy photo.
We are dealing with a new form of recreation, said Abe Medina, Recreation Manager for the State Land Board. He explains that campers previously used to pitch a few tents during the hunting season. But now [they] arrive all summer long with big RVs, multiple vehicles, toy haulers, four-wheelers and side-by-sides.
As the Chaffee Recreation Adopters group began to monitor campsites across the county last year, they documented mounting damage. Dozens of self-made, non-designated campsites and associated spur roads destroyed acres of vegetation. The State Land Board has noted that visitors made dangerous bonfires in the middle of grassy meadows, and they have built racetracks and jumps for riding play. Its much more intensive use. It grew to the point that we had to do something, said Medina.
The State Land Board is the second-largest landowner in the state. Trust land parcels commonly known as school sections, total nearly three million acres, all managed by the State Land Board. These are located throughout the state, including 16,600 acres in Chaffee County. The sections were granted by the federal government at statehood to produce revenue for public institutions.
More than $2 billion has been raised in the past 15 years, mainly to fund Colorados BEST (Building Excellent Schools Today) program. Other public institutions, such as the state penitentiary system, are also beneficiaries.
The State Land Board is responsible for profitable land management, which is commonly achieved through leasing lands to agricultural operators and others. Ranchers use these grazing leases for summer pasture for herds.
Medina said that grazing in Chubb Park has become more difficult as the long-time lessee, a Chaffee County rancher, has a hard time driving cows onto the property. Understandably, cattle wont drink from water tanks that are surrounded by campers. Some campers have chased calves with off-road vehicles and damaged the agriculture irrigation system.
Crews have worked to remove the illegal rock fire pits and are installing new metal fire grates in the new campsites in Chubb Park. Courtesy photo.
According to Medina, the solution for compatible, mixed-use land management at this site is to offer camping in 14 designated sites, each with a numbered site post and metal fire ring. Posted signs convey the rules.
We considered closing the area to camping but recognize that will just push people onto surrounding lands that are also under pressure, so we decided to try to enable camping to continue with new rules and signage, said Medina.
The trust land parcel in Chubb Park is surrounded by National Forest in the 100,000-acre Fourmile Recreation Area, which includes Bureau of Land Management property near the towns of Buena Vista and Salida.
Medina collaborated with other land managers through a local process facilitated by Envision Chaffee County, to implement the All Lands Camping strategy that is outlined in the Chaffee County Outdoor Recreation Management Plan. The goal is to provide high-quality, low-impact camping opportunities in response to residents concerns about camping growth without sufficient management such as trash, human waste, declining experience quality and the potential for human-caused wildfire sparking from user-created campfire rings.
The county plan endorses solutions, such as the project in Chubb Park by the State Land Board, to retain the quality of outdoor experiences, protect resources such as clean water, and ensure the recreation-based economy is sustainable. New signs and campsites were paid for by the State Land Board, with support from the Chaffee County Visitors Bureau, the National Forest Foundation and a mini-grant from Chaffee Common Ground.
Camping remains free and first-come, first-served at Chubb Park this year. Medina said a fee is likely in the future and that, if the Chubb Park model is successful, designated camping could be used on additional school parcels such as Waunita Reservoir near Tomichi Dome. We want to be part of the regional conversation as a lot of communities need help offering more sustainable camping, he said.
The Colorado State Board of Land Commissioners is a constitutionally created agency that manages a $4 billion endowment of assets for the intergenerational benefit of Colorados K-12 schoolchildren and public institutions. The agency is the second-largest landowner in Colorado and generates revenue on behalf of beneficiaries by leasing nearly three million surface acres and four million mineral acres for agriculture, grazing, recreation, commercial real estate, rights-of-way, renewable energy, oil, gas, and mining. Unlike public lands, trust lands are not open to the public unless a property has been leased for public access.
The agency is entirely self-funded and receives no tax dollars. The agency has generated more than $2 billion for public schools in the past 15 years.
Featured image: Chubb Park in the Fourmile Recreation Area has 14 new dispersed camping sites. Photo courtesy of Envision Chaffee County.
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This Might Be the Nicest Toyota-Based Camper on Earth – Jalopnik
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If theres one area where vintage rigs beat modern RVs every time, it has to be style. In the past, you could get an epic little Toyota pickup-based camper dripping with character. I found what has to be the coolest Toyota pickup camper to grace this planet. This 1989 Toyota Hilux is a JDM diesel 4x4 camper with a dually rear axle and a ritzy interior.
Japans classic RVs offer a quirky alternative for those who want to camp a bit differently. Ive featured a number of glorious JDM campers here, from a Mitsubishi Delica turned Class C RV to a bus made into a rolling hotel room. A lot of Japans campers are pickup trucks with a fiberglass shell over the back. Thats what youre getting with the Toyota Hilux Galaxy well examine today, but this one is even better than usual.
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This camper started life as a fifth-generation Toyota Hilux LN106. These trucks are known for being extremely durable. BBC Top Gear once subjected a Hilux from this generation to fire, a wrecking ball, a dunk in the sea, and a building collapse and it still ran and drove. These are classic trucks with cockroach-level durability. A perfect platform for a camper.
The best resource I could find for information on the Galaxy camper were viewing here is Ottoex Adventure Vehicles, a U.S. importer of JDM vehicles with a knack for camper vans. Ottoex explains that the Galaxy shell is 100 percent fiberglass and doesnt have a wooden subfloor like youd find in many campers.
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Youre probably wondering about those dorky protrusions coming off of the trucks doors. The base truck doesnt have them, so why are they here? Ottoex says they improve aerodynamics. And this little barn probably needs all the help it can get.
Information on these campers is surprisingly scant. Some sourceslike Bring a Trailerstate that around 80 of these things were built in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Normally, these campers have a standard, boring RV interior. But thats where this one strays from the rest. Check this out:
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I spoke with the seller, Derek, at Northeast Auto Imports, the New Hampshire dealership where this camper is currently listed for sale. He says the interior was refurbished using reclaimed wood from a barn that was over a century old. I was blown away by the sight of this interior.
Photo: Northeast Auto Imports
The camper was imported from Japan in 2020 and Derek got right to work overhauling it. He told me the man responsible for the interior work was given a pass to do whatever he wanted. The result is seriously impressive.
Just for reference, heres what the interior of a stock Hilux Galaxy looks like. Cozy, efficient but a world apart from the truck Northeast Imports is selling.
The interior overhaul includes reupholstered door cards and seats. Out back, the living area includes a new stovetop, sink and composting toilet. Additional amenities come in the form of solar panels and an awning. And yep, the bed is brand new too.
This camper has another trick feature: The front portion pops up, providing extra room and ventilation in the sleeping deck.
Photo: Northeast Auto Imports
Backing it all up is a Toyota 3L 2.8-liter diesel four-cylinder powering all four wheels through a manual transmission and a two-speed transfer case. These engines are rated at 90 hp and 138 lb-ft torque in factory form, but this one is far from stock. The list of mods includes a Garrett GBC20 turbocharger, Snow Performance methanol injection, a water-to-air intercooler, an aluminum radiator and ARP head studs.
Photo: Northeast Auto Imports
This thoroughly hot-rodded engine now puts out 111 horses and 231 lb-ft torque at the wheels. This 6,300-lb RV isnt fast, but the seller says it will happily cruise American highways at 75 mph without any drama. All that extra power hasnt hurt the fuel economy: it still averages around 20 mpg, roughly what a stocker would do.
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So, what will something like this cost you? It failed to sell on Bring a Trailer when it was bid up to $27,010 earlier this month. Now Derek has decided to offer it at his import dealership for $67,500. Ottoex sold theirs for $49,995 while a newer one crossed Bring a Trailer for $36,500. Given the wonderful interior on Dereks truck, I think its worth it!
Ive reached out to Toyota in hopes of getting more history on these campers, and especially those external door attachments. I will update if I hear back.
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In East Timor, president-elect confronts thorny addiction to oil – Al Jazeera English
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Jakarta, Indonesia East Timors president-elect won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1996 for his efforts to liberate his country, but Jose Ramos-Horta may find charting a sustainable path for one of the worlds most oil-dependent nations to be his toughest challenge yet.
Ramos-Horta, who will be inaugurated on Friday, beat the incumbent Francisco Guterres popularly known as Lu-Olo in a second-round runoff last month, claiming 62.1 percent of the vote.Ramos-Horta, a former president and prime minister, had the backing of the Congresso Nacional de Reconstrucao de Timor (CNRT) party because he would not oppose the partys plan to develop the Greater Sunrise oil and gas fields.
The government of East Timor, also known asTimor-Leste, owns a controlling stake in the untapped fields, which lie in the Timor Sea between the Southeast Asian nation and Australia, but insists any resources must cross a deep seabed trench to be processed on Timorese soil, which has stalled development.
Neighbouring fields in the Timor Sea, known as Bayu-Undan, contribute the vast majority of the wealth in East Timors $19bn sovereign petroleum fund, which finances about 85 percent of government spending.
The large proportion of state spending drawn from petroleum revenues makes East Timor one of the worlds most oil-dependent nations. The Southeast Asian country,which voted to leave Indonesia in 1999 and became an independent nation in 2002 after a United Nations transitional administration, also ranks among the regions poorest countries, with a gross domestic product (GDP) per capita of less than $1,500.
Experts believe the nearly-depleted Bayu-Undan fields have already contributed 99 percent of the revenue East Timor can expect to receive and will run dry within 10 to 15 years.
Guteriano Neves, an independent policy analyst based in the Timorese capital Dili,said the over reliance on oil and gas revenues has hindered the development of non-oil sectors and made the country vulnerable to economic shocks.
The path that Timor-Leste is taking is a very dangerous and unsustainable path, yet it is very challenging to change the direction, Neves told Al Jazeera.
The economy that highly depends on petroleum does not trigger domestic demand; it does not help the domestic economy to grow. It is unsustainable to develop on a single sector, particularly to depend on a non-renewable resource like petroleum.
While the highly profitable Bayu-Undan fields have helped the petroleum fund earn $32bn in revenues and investment returns since 2005, East Timor produces far fewer resources than other exporters in the region: neighbouring Indonesia had more than 300 times as much oil and gas reserves at hand in late 2019.
Neves said the country is following the tendency of the resource curse.
This manifests in unsustainable spending, misguided policy driven by satisfying immediate needs over long-term development, poor quality of public service, various forms of inequality and low productivity of [the] non-oil sector, he said. Timorese are aware of these and [have tried] to mitigate through various policy measures but as we say, the temptation is bigger than the intention.
Ramos-Horta ran in last months election as an independent candidate with the backing of CNRT, which has long supported the Greater Sunrise development and expects Ramos-Horta as president to endorse the legislation required to enable onshore processing.
The viability of processing the fields resources inEast Timor is widely considered uncertain, and financing onshore development would cost almost the entire petroleum fund.
Yet Ramos-Horta and his backers have expressed interest in developing Greater Sunrise against the wishes of the outgoing government, which in East Timors semi-presidential system carries greater decision-making power than the president. Ramos-Hortas office was not available for comment in time for publication.
East Timor politics expert Michael Leach said that while the presidents policy powers are limited, the ability to veto legislation which in some cases can only be overturned by gaining a difficult two-thirds majority vote in parliament is significant.
The presidential veto is quite a substantial power, Leach told Al Jazeera.
If a president was against Greater Sunrise they could certainly veto a budget financing its development. These vetoes can be reversed by parliament, but some reversals require a two-thirds majority, which isnt easy to mobilise.
CNRT withdrew from the governing coalition in 2020 following a long-running dispute over ministerial appointments and has described the current Fretilin party-led government as illegitimate.
The partys support of Ramos-Hortas presidential campaign hinged on its controversial request for the candidate to dissolve parliament and call an early election which CNRT believes it would win or use his victory as evidence of no confidence in the current government and a mandate for the president to reconfigure the governing alliance in the current parliament to favour the party.
Leach warned against conflating CNRTs support of Ramos-Horta with the president-elects own agenda.
If people think Ramos-Horta is going to be a simple puppet of CNRT, theyll be disappointed, he said.
Of course, CNRT was his chief backer and hell be mindful of that, but hes formally an independent, and hes a senior Timorese leader of great standing, and the presidents role is to govern for all Timorese. He also has to bring the whole country together, which calls for consultation with all parties.
Joao da Cruz Cardoso, a Dili-based independent analyst who focuses on sustainable development in East Timor, said the government should prioritise investment in non-oil sectors, including education, tourism, agriculture and manufacturing, but a lack of political will has made change difficult.
[There is] a lack of political incentive, at least in the short term, to develop the non-oil sectors of the economy, Cardoso told Al Jazeera.
Cardoso said the global shift away from fossil fuels provided East Timor with a window of opportunity to maximise gains from its resources and develop its non-oil economy before time runs out.
Timor-Leste understands the importance of diversifying its economy, but recognises that it is very difficult thing to do, he said.
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