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This paper presents the integration of a Variable Stiffness Link (VSL) for long-reach aerial manipulation, enabling adaptable mechanical coupling between an aerial multirotor platform and a dual-arm manipulator. Conventional long-reach manipulation systems rely on rigid or cable connections, which limit precision or transmit disturbances to the aerial vehicle. The proposed VSL introduces an adjustable stiffness mechanism that allows the link to behave either as a flexible rope or as a rigid rod, depending on task requirements. The system is mounted on a quadrotor equipped with the LiCAS dual-arm manipulator and evaluated through teleoperated experiments, involving external disturbances and parcel transportation tasks. Results demonstrate that varying the link stiffness significantly modifies the dynamic interaction between the UAV and the payload. The flexible configuration attenuates external impacts and aerodynamic perturbations, while the rigid configuration improves positional accuracy during manipulation phases. These results confirm that VSL enhances versatility and safety, providing a controllable trade-off between compliance and precision. Future work will focus on autonomous stiffness regulation, multi-rope configurations, cooperative aerial manipulation and user studies to further assess its impact on teleoperated and semi-autonomous aerial tasks.

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A PAC affiliated with Miami Mayor Francis Suarez's presidential campaign has rolled out an AI version of the candidate to answer voter questions. A Republican 2024 candidate is deploying a digital doppelganger created with artificial intelligence, and his political allies are hoping the clone could be a first-of-his-kind "campaign surrogate" that could one day even do media interviews. A fundraising group affiliated with Miami Mayor Francis Suarez's presidential campaign has rolled out an audio and video lookalike of the conservative leader that answers voter questions about his political stances. "We wanted to do something that was going to set him apart from the rest of the crew running for president," SOS America PAC spokesman Chapin Fay told Fox News Digital. "You know, we have to. All the candidates are trying to find their lane and differentiate themselves, and I think this is one way that we can do that for Mayor Suarez."

Republican presidential candidate Francis Suarez appeared to admit during a Tuesday morning radio interview about national security that he does not know what a Uyghur is. The admission from Suarez came during an appearance on The Hugh Hewitt Show, where Hewitt asked Suarez, "Will you be talking about the Uyghurs in your campaign?" "The what," Suarez, the current mayor of Miami, responded. Republican presidential candidate and Mayor of Miami Francis Suarez delivers remarks at the Faith and Freedom Road to Majority conference on June 23, 2023, in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images) "What's a Uyghur," Suarez inquired further. Moving on from the question due to Suarez's inability to identify what a Uyghur is, Hewitt told the mayor, "You've got to get smart on that."

In the long shadow of the 2007-08 global financial crisis, concurrent advances in three technologies – smartphones, 4G cellular networks and cloud computing – sparked an explosion of innovation in financial services. Their convergence enabled mobile banking: the sector's most significant development in generations. Just over a decade later, the industry is again "on the cusp of another inflexion point". He predicts that progress in tech including 5G, blockchain, artificial intelligence and quantum computing will trigger "another spurt" of innovation. "People talk about data being the new oil," Pattni says.

The weekend felt like an eternity for the 13-year-old. So when she handed back her "robot baby" it was with great relief. She had taken part in a program launched by the Caldas municipality in Colombia to try to tackle the problem of teenage pregnancies. "This experience was pretty tough, it's not easy being a mommy or a daddy," Ortegon said. The baby's cries were so loud that they even bothered her parents.

Daniel Suarez has quickly established himself as the heir apparent to Michael Crichton with a string of fast-paced thrillers full of cutting-edge science. His new novel Change Agent is about a world transformed by ubiquitous genetic engineering and based on real-life research that's advancing at an astonishing rate. In Suarez's book, editing the genomes of human embryos is common, but strict limits are placed on edits that are considered too risky. That puts Interpol agents at odds with parents who want every genetic advantage for their children--as well as with the black market baby labs that cater to them. One of Change Agent's crazier plot points involves a criminal who attacks an Interpol agent and injects him with a substance that rewrites his DNA, transforming his body into that of a wanted criminal.

At this year's SXSW the theme for our conference tech coverage is "AI for good." Technologists will be discussing how they are using new developments in artificial intelligence to solve complex, long-standing social problems, including crimes against children. Federico Gomez Suarez (pictured), senior technical program manager at Microsoft, spoke to John Furrier (@furrier), host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media's mobile live streaming studio, during SXSW about his involvement in Thorn, a special outfit that works with law enforcement to rescue traffic or exploited children. "The fact that we're making a difference in those lives is extremely encouraging," Suarez said. He credits Microsoft's Hack for Good program for paving his avenue to Thorn.