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๐—ฌ๐—ผ๐˜‚ ๐—ฑ๐—ผ๐—ป'๐˜ ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—ฎ $๐Ÿฑ๐Ÿฌ,๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฌ ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฐ๐—ต ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ฏ๐—ผ๐˜ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐—”๐—œ ๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐˜€. Our ML team is integrating the Elephant Robotics - Robotic Arms mechArm 270 Pi with the Neuracore platform. The biggest barrier to learning robot learning isn't talent or ideas, it's access to expensive hardware. We've already open sourced...

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