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Today on In Case You Missed It: A professor from California is working on a plan to use photonic propulsion to get a spacecraft to Mars within 72 hours. It would use get the craft off of earth with the power generated by photons leaving a laser.
Boston Dynamics is showing its latest Atlas robot and not only is it way slimmer at 180 pounds from 330 but it can get completely knocked down and stand back up. Look out, DARPA Challenge.
The Micro Drone 3.0 is on sale on Indiegogo for $175 and is small enough to not need to be registered by the FAA.
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