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‘Water quadrupled. Labor nearly doubled’ If you like strawberries, this major source is shutting down. They can't afford to farm in CA anymore. Hundreds of people will be unemployed. Strawberries will not be grown, driving up the cost. ‘Water quadrupled. Labor nearly doubled’ ... and that is why that major farming operation is closing. The tragedy is that solutions to the manmade water shortage exist, but they aren't being applied because they don't fit ongoing policy. Problem-solving is not happening, despite the state budget increasing by as much as 70% since COVID while remaining deep in the red. We just pay more to live here ... which is why so many businesses and taxpayers have fled the state, which will result in taxes going up again because there are fewer taxpayers to support all the unemployed and the large population in poverty. CA has the highest taxes, gas prices, electricity prices, and housing, and accounts for 13 of the 25 most expensive water systems in the country. Why? It didn't used to be like this. CA used to thrive economically and used to be a destination state. The California Dream no longer exists. What changed? We have too many policies and regulations that are not advantageous to the population or to business. We need better balance. CA is on a downward spiral that is being blamed on everyone except those who are not fixing the numerous crises they created by not considering consequences. Blaming others is easier, even when not justifiable. Realistic plans to solve problems are the actual solution. Just fixing the manmade water shortage would at least provide local water supply to be able to support building more homes and support businesses that rely on water for things like manufacturing or growing our food. Currently, any business relying on water is struggling. And we still have millions of people needing safe drinking water. If the CA residents don't push loud and hard for changes, our Governor-elect will very likely continue the same unsustainable policies. And we will lose more than large strawberry farms while our living costs continue to increase, more farms are lost, and more businesses and taxpayers flee the state. Why are we allowing this increasing unaffordability to continue when solutions are available that benefit all water users?

A quadruped just solved a Rubik’s cube, with its feet! 🐾 A four-legged robot that normally just walks, autonomously solving a giant Rubik’s cube using only the two feet it also stands on. This is new work from ETH Zürich and NVIDIA Robotics. They call it pedipulation, manipulation with feet. The robot walks around the cube and scans it with an onboard depth camera. SAM 3 segments the cube, ICP locks in its 3D pose, and the facelet colors get classified to rebuild the full cube state. A standard solver plans the moves. Then learned skills execute them. The hardest skill is turning a layer: one foot pins the cube in place while the other pushes the top layers 90°. Pin and push at once, on legs that are also holding the robot up. → Trained in simulation with RL, then distilled into policies running on just depth + the robot’s own joint sensing → ~2 cm pose error and under 3° rotation error out to 2 m → Facelet color read with 100% accuracy indoors, 98.7% outdoors → Three full autonomous solves on real hardware, ~30 steps each, 8–9 minutes A party trick on the surface. Underneath, it’s a quadruped completing a long, precise, multi-step physical task with nothing but its feet and its own eyes. That’s a real step toward legged robots that do more than walk. 😮‍💨 🔗 Project page here: ~~  ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →