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Sunday, November 1, 2020

Walking the Walk

(Fair Use)

Bing Crosby once sang about a “very strange and mystic” thing that had happened to him.  He then crooned that he had seen a dream walking.

Well if that weren’t strange enough, engineers in Shanghai, China recently saw a building walking.  Only this was no dream.  By way of robotic “legs,” a five-story school had inched its way to a new site, 203 feet away. 

It was the Chinese who declared that a long journey begins with a single step.  And all the while, we thought they were just referring to humans... 

Resources

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/20/10/30/2136211/a-5-story-building-in-shanghai-walks-to-a-new-location-using-technology

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