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Blaxit
25 Views · 5 years ago

In this video, Bla Xit Messenger Roger expresses his enthusiasm about coming home to Africa!

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Ọnuọra Abụah
49 Views · 3 years ago

When a long distance taxi breaks down in rural Northern Nigeria, a young woman questions her decision to head north towards Libya in the hope of getting to Europe.

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Kalanfa Naka
41 Views · 5 years ago

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Ọbádélé Kambon
35 Views · 3 years ago

Not many robotic companies can attract millions of internet followers, but not many companies produce bots quite like Boston Dynamics. Each time the business releases new footage of its machines, it creates a stir across the internet. Whether it’s a human-like bot hopping around or a pack of robots that tow a truck, Boston Dynamics’ machines are quite the thrill. In it's latest display of engineering excellence, the company released a dog-like bot, named Spot.

In today’s video we will be taking a look at the internet’s most famous robot dog and why Boson Dynamics is changing history by making them!

A few years ago, when Boston Dynamics began releasing videos of Spot, a nimble, small four-legged robot, the public was fascinated. In the videos, the sturdy dog like bot was seen opening a door with ease, hauling a large truck, climbing up and down stairs, and even dancing to Bruno Mars. The Terminator-style quadruped offered a futuristic glimpse of robotic potential that many online viewers found exciting. Spot’s 2019 launch video has been viewed nearly 12 million times and the dance videos have been seen almost 2 million times.

Spot is 83 cm tall and weighs only 70 pounds. It can perform a number of functions including moving through rough land with ease while also being small enough to be used indoors. The unique selling point of Spot is that it can go where other wheeled robots can't, all while carrying payloads of up to 14 kilograms of inspection equipment. It has a top speed of 1.6 meters per second and a 90-minute runtime with interchangeable batteries.

In 2021, Boston Dynamics integrated an arm to its robot dog, known as the "Spot Arm" with which the machine will have other skills, such as: closing water taps, making holes to pot plants, picking up clothes from the floor and placing them in the trash can. It can even write with chalk!

So far, the company has developed two models of Spot: Spot Enterprise and Spot Explorer. Spot Enterprise, which is designed for sensing and inspection in dangerous areas, is self-charging, allowing it to collect data on a regular or on-demand basis without the need for human intervention. Sport Explorer is intended for developers who want to explore flexible mobile robots. It can perform activities ranging from industrial inspection to entertainment. It comes ready to operate with payload interfaces and flexible API.

But why exactly do we need a cool, futuristic robot dog? Sounds like a waste of resources and time, doesn't it? Well, you would be surprised to know that many open minded and forward thinking companies have already seen the real world applications of where and how this robodog technology fits in and have started spending their big bucks.

The same functional traits that made Spot fascinating to some, and “terrifying” to others, caught the interest of the Massachusetts State Police, which became the first law enforcement agency in the United States to put the robotic dog to work. Spot was ‘borrowed' by the police in two unnamed events in 2019 to explore the robotic dog's potential in law enforcement applications. The agile 70 pound hound, which can climb stairs, was employed to inspect dangerous locations and assist officers in better identifying dangers at crime scenes while also keeping them safe.

Even NASA has jumped in on the fun and suggested that the four-legged robot dog could be used to explore the surface of Mars. Researchers suggested that a modified version of Boston Dynamics’ dog like Spot robot would be an excellent replacement for traditional Mars rovers.

While Mars rovers have been and are definitely amazing, they're not the most quick, adaptable little bots. Curiosity, for example, travels at a decidedly un-blistering 0.9 miles per hour across parts of the Red Planet's surface. That's roughly a third as fast as most people walk.

The prototype robodog, nicknamed Au-Spot, is capable of moving three times faster than existing rovers. It will be ideal for investigating Martian tunnels, an area of great interest among those planning future manned missions to the planet. The idea is that they’re better suited to cover rough terrain and long distances. They could even help map out potential areas for the type of human outpost NASA plans to create on Mars in the future.

Over 1,000 potential cave openings have already been discovered in satellite pictures of Mars. Humans may be able to shelter in caves on such journeys, away from the planet's harsh dust storms, extreme cold, and punishing UV radiation. These locations, on the other hand, are not locations into which current rovers can be sent. Au-Spot's remarkable intelligence and exploration abilities will allow Earth-bound scientists to determine whether the caves can really be of use to future astronauts. The robodog can get down into such caves and then get itself back out.

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73 Views · 2 years ago

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20 Views · 4 years ago

An African American born repatriates back to Ghana with his family for good. Watch Obadele Kambon on Diasporians living in Ghana

Angela Malele
16 Views · 4 years ago

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Ambakisye-Okang Dukuzumurenyi
17 Views · 4 years ago

Film by Sorious Samura and Clive Patterson

How political corruption is turning the country's spiralling youth unemployment into a threat to society.

You can witness the same scene at dawn every morning in Kenya's capital, Nairobi: thousands of young people in search of work are streaming out from the city's slums towards its industrial areas.

Most of them are neatly if simply dressed, many of them are full of optimism, but the vast majority are destined to be disappointed. Those that can afford it will try and cram onto a bus in an attempt to beat the crowds, the rest will weave their way on foot through the heavy morning commuter traffic. But when they arrive, the situation for all of them will invariably be the same as it was on the previous day and the day before that and on all the other preceding days.

They will spend an hour or so packed in their hundreds along the pavements and parking lots outside a factory, warehouse or office block, certificates of education and references from previous employers ready to hand, waiting patiently for something to happen.

The usual rumours pass from person to person, this company is said to need people with computer skills, that one needs fork lift truck drivers or perhaps some just some day laborers. But then a supervisor will step from the building and shout out that he can offer a day's work for four people with experience of working a lathe or two with secretarial skills.

Many step forward, a lucky few are selected at random and make their way inside, then the doors of the building close and the rest drift off to take up station at the next place or to make their long way back home - hopes dashed yet again.

A national disaster in the making?

George, a Kenyan in his early twenties, has graduated from university in December 2012 with a diploma in electrical engineering but so far he has been unable to find work.

"The chance I'm going to be chosen today is limited," he says. "I'm just gambling. You can stand here for as long as half a day, because you never know the time that you can be picked."

It is a story that is all too common. Joblessness among all people of working age is a serious problem in Kenya, but among young people, it is a catastrophe. The country has one of the largest youth populations in Africa, but roughly 70 percent of its working age youth - almost 10 million people - are unemployed, although a surprising number are very well educated and possess the kinds of skills a healthy economy really should be able to put to use.

In a country where almost 80 percent of the population is under the age of 35 some have labelled it a national disaster in the making, that may have serious social consequences and lead to civil unrest.

For a country that is still recovering from the scars of the widespread community violence that followed the 2007 election and which is still reeling from the aftermath of the al-Shabab Westgate mall terrorist attack in September 2013, it is a hint worth taking seriously.

Dr Alex Ezeh of the African Population and Health Research Centre in Nairobi put the significance of this youth population 'bulge' in context.

"It is a demographic event," he says. "It's something that many countries go through at different stages as they move from very high fertility and mortality to very low mortality, it creates this reservoir of people." But this, as he explained, can have positive and negative consequences.

"Generally, what makes it a good thing is our ability to harness the economic potential of such a large proportion of young people going into the labour market … There is a side of it, the more negative part of it, which is, if there are no jobs and no opportunities to engage, then you have a lot of young people understanding what is going on but they're disenfranchised politically, economically, and in many other ways, and this creates a lot of political instability."

The stark reality for the young people from the huge slums at Kibera and Mathare and elsewhere around Kenya's capital is that life without a job is extremely difficult. With no regular income many of them have to turn to crime to make a living. And even if they do not, they are often suspected of involvement in crime, which in turn leads to deadly entanglements with Kenya's notoriously trigger-happy police.

A generation pushed to the edge

When asked who should be doing what about Kenya's youth unemployment, the answer is clear. Successive governments in Kenya have done little to alleviate the plight of the jobless and should be doing more.


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Ambakisye-Okang Dukuzumurenyi
62 Views · 4 years ago

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Ambakisye-Okang Dukuzumurenyi
16 Views · 4 years ago

Xhosa men building a roof and then will apply thatch. This is in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.

Kwabena Ofori Osei
12 Views · 10 months ago

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20 Views · 4 years ago

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Ambakisye-Okang Dukuzumurenyi
16 Views · 4 years ago

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Ambakisye-Okang Dukuzumurenyi
32 Views · 4 years ago

Dr. James Smalls is an art historian, with a focus on the intersections of race, gender, and queer sexuality in the art and visual culture of the nineteenth century, as well as the art and visual culture of the black diaspora. He is the author of Homosexuality in Art (Parkstone Press, 2003) and The Homoerotic Photography of Carl Van Vechten: Public Face, Private Thoughts (2006). He has published essays in a number of book anthologies and prominent journals, including American Art, French Historical Studies, Third Text, Art Journal, and Art Criticism. His book chapters and articles include: Menace at the Portal: Masculine Desire and the Homoerotics of Orientalism (2016), The Soft Glow of Brutality (2015), A Teacher Uses Star Trek for Difficult Conversations on Race and Gender (2015), Racial Antics in Late Nineteenth-Century French Art and Popular Culture (2014), Sculpting Black Queer Bodies and Desires: The Case of Richmond Barthé (2013), and Exquisite Empty Shells: Sculpted Slave Portraits and the French Ethnographic Turn (2013). Smalls is currently completing a book entitled Féral Benga: African Muse of Modernism.

In 2006, Smalls curated a two-part exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art on the art, career, and international influence of the African American artist, Henry Ossawa Tanner. In 2009-2010, he served as the Consulting Editor for the five-volume set of The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art. In 2015 he was appointed to the Advisory Board for The Archives of American Art Journal.

Dr. Smalls holds degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), in Ethnic Arts (B. A.), and Art History (M. A., and Ph.D.). He has taught at Rutgers University, Columbia University, and at the University of Paris.


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17 Views · 4 years ago

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Kwadwo Danmeara Tòkunbọ̀ Datɛ
30 Views · 6 years ago

when it comes to what people now call "consciousness", i was lucky to be exposed to the teachings at an early age. for that, i am so thankful. but i remember going back to some of my early teachers and having them tell me, quite candidly, what was missing from their own development. we have the chance to redress some of those deficiencies in this generation. dr.umar is, without question, a bright individual. he truly is.

as brothers, we should NEVER allow anybody to slander him. EVER. we should be comfortable with saying I RESPECT UMAR JOHNSON without having to give a bunch of disclaimers and qualifying statements. we should be glad to see him succeed. we should learn from his example and avoid whatever pitfalls he has fallen into. who among us has not been caught up in this system, which targets black men from birth??? who doesn't remember what they did to black boys in elementary school, in high school, at the mall, walking the street? i respect umar johnson.

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