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Yeah Hand: open-source 15-DOF robotic hand with ROS 2 driver

Hi everyone, I’d like to share the Yeah Hand, an open-source, low-cost robotic hand with a ROS 2 driver. Video (50 s): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgLujs26Dso Hardware 15 DOF, 5 tendon-driven actuators (Waveshare…

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The physical AI race will be won in the patent office

Patent protection is important for robotics startups, but they should be strategic in determining what IP is important, says Lightbringer. The post The physical AI race will be won in the patent office appeared first on…

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Kannada film Lambodhar 2.0 to feature real humanoid robot Jia, director claims it is happening for the first time in Indian cinema | Hindustan Times

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Rethinking the Next Battlefield: India Must Build the Ecosystem, Not Just the Robot

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From Surgery to Diagnostics: Robotics Enters New Healthcare Frontiers

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Has anyone found a reliable way to validate a hand eye calibration result?

I have been trying to work out how a hand eye calibration should be validated and I have not found any complete answer yet There are some tools I looked at (MoveIt Calibration, easy_handeye, Kalibr) that just print…

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Minister says AI, robotics to help India address healthcare challenges

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Boston Robot Hackers Oct 15 Meeting Announcement

In less than two weeks we will have our next monthly meeting of the Boston Robot Hackers . Mark it on your calendar now, and please register for the event—select October 15, 7:00 to 9:00. Our main speaker, Arjun…

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Inside Omron’s next-generation LD mobile robots

In mobile robotics, software, safety, and fleet management are becoming just as important as the robot itself, according to an OMROM project manager. The post Inside Omron’s next-generation LD mobile robots appeared…

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Eli Lilly, Purdue to share field learnings on human robot interaction at RoboBusiness

Experts from Eli Lilly and Purdue University will reveal findings about the perception of robots on the manufacturing floor. The post Eli Lilly, Purdue to share field learnings on human robot interaction at RoboBusiness…

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ROS News for the week of September 28th, 2026

ROS News for the week of September 28th, 2026 ROSCon Global 2026 was last week in Toronto! There were a lot of big announcements, including Intrinsic releasing Intrinsic Open Core and wrapping up the AI for Industry…

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Runway introduces Praxis-1 world action model for robotics

When Runway does release Praxis-1 publicly, it plans to ship it with open weights rather than as a closed model. The post Runway introduces Praxis-1 world action model for robotics appeared first on The Robot Report .

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Preparing for Lyrical Sync 2026-10-05

Hello Lyrical maintainers! Starting now, I will be holding new Lyrical ros/rosdistro release PRs with a plan to sync ROS Lyrical packages to the main apt repo on 2026-10-05. Please comment here if there are any issues I…

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Robotics Set to Transform Every Medical Specialty, From Diagnostics to Therapy in India: Jitendra Singh

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Video Friday: Albatross Falls, Spins, Self-Rights, and Sails Away

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us…

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ROS2 Parameter Value Querying

I need a much better way of grabbing the current value of every parameter of every node running on my system. Not just the dynamic ones, but the defaults and overrides from the launch system. From an experiment…

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MoveIt 2 Setup Assistant Tutorial: Custom 3-Joint Arm Troubleshooting Guide (ROS 2 Jazzy)

Hello ROS Community, I want to share a comprehensive step-by-step video tutorial on configuring MoveIt 2 from scratch for a custom robotic manipulator on ROS 2 Jazzy and Ubuntu 24.04 . While most official tutorials use…

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Control & state estimation contractor (NL, remote + on-site blocks)

I’m Alex Andriën, an independent robotics engineer in the Netherlands (Andrien Robotics). I take on bounded, hard problems in control, state estimation and sensor fusion on real hardware: the part where it works in…

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Robotics to expand beyond surgery into diagnostics and multiple medical specialities: Jitendra Singh

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Calling robotics startups: Submissions for the 2026 Robotics Startup Radar close soon

Submit now to be part of the Robotics Startup Radar, which brings together some of the most promising robotics startups. The post Calling robotics startups: Submissions for the 2026 Robotics Startup Radar close soon…

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Robot Talk Episode 164 – Accelerating robot learning, with Michelle Lu

Claire chatted to Michelle Lu from Vsim Technology about using simulation and artificial intelligence to teach robots new skills. Michelle Lu is co-founder and CEO of Vsim Technology. She was previously a Director of…

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Preparing for Jazzy Sync 2026-10-05

We’re planning a Jazzy Jalisco sync next Monday Sun, Oct 4, 2026 4:00 PM UTC . There are currently 472 packages ready to sync and no regressions . If you find any other regression when testing, please report it upstream…

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Top 10 robotics stories of September 2026

In September 2026, live events such as IMTS, ROSCon, and iROS brought a flood of robotics developments. The post Top 10 robotics stories of September 2026 appeared first on The Robot Report .

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Boston Dynamics drops pinkie on new humanoid hand

Boston Dynamics engineers taped their pinkies and ring fingers together for a day to learn what they weren’t able to do. The post Boston Dynamics drops pinkie on new humanoid hand appeared first on The Robot Report .

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Precision In Motion. Vishay Precision Group, Inc. (VPG) to Showcase Custom Sensing Capabilities for Humanoid Robotics at RoboBusiness 2026

As humanoid robots move from research labs into factories, warehouses, homes, and other shared spaces, accurate physical feedback becomes crucial. The post Precision In Motion. Vishay Precision Group, Inc. (VPG) to…

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Your Robot’s Safety Functions Already Work. What If the Input Lies?

A robot can follow its safety rules and still act on manipulated information. See what this means for robot safety and how teams can strengthen their testing and evidence. The post Your Robot’s Safety Functions Already…

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Atlas Robot’s New Hand May Outperform Humanlike Designs

Today, Boston Dynamics is announcing a redesigned hand for its Atlas robot . The previous generation could do some crazy superhuman things with its three fingers, but it was never intended for mass production in the…

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How Maven Robotics plans to automate industrial work, one task at a time

With the $100 million it raised earlier this month, Maven Robotics is looking towards mass producing its mobile manipulator robot. The post How Maven Robotics plans to automate industrial work, one task at a time…

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ANYbotics launches Shift to streamline robot fleet operations, scale inspections

ANYbotics designed Shift to help maintenance teams run industrial inspections, detect failing equipment, and turn data into work orders. The post ANYbotics launches Shift to streamline robot fleet operations, scale…

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Shiv Mandlik’s Robot Project On India’s Heritage Wins Bronze At WRO India

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Bill Gates says FICA taxes should apply to robot workers too

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Pogo-Bot Goes All Terrain With Compliant Foot

What do you get when you combine a pogo stick, a quadcopter, and engineering students from the University of Toronto? This thing, apparently– a “monopedal hopping robot” that uses a …read more

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ROS PMC Minutes for September 29, 2026

The ROS PMC meeting for this week was on Tuesday, September 29, 2026. The notes from the meeting are available at ROS PMC weekly meeting agenda . This was the first meeting back after ROSCon. ROS PMC Business REP 158…

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The Robot Report parent Arrowfly launches AI for Engineers platform, events for engineers navigating AI

The initiative for engineers includes a news desk, a conference, research, and an advisory board, grounded in trusted editorial brands. The post The Robot Report parent Arrowfly launches AI for Engineers platform…

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Robotics and automation? Informal reflections on familiar terms

By Emmet Cole “Robotics and automation” is a pairing heard often around these parts. It puts the “RA” in IEEE RAS, after all. The familiar combination shows up in conference titles, funding calls, and program…

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ROS2 BuildHat Lego Spike/Prime Differential Drive Controller

Dear all, BuildHat is a hardware interface (from the Raspberry Pi Foundation) between Raspberry Pi and Lego Spike/Prime. I have developed a differential drive controller package for this interface for ROS2. It…

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Forbes Asia's 100 to Watch: AI, robotics and green tech lead the pack

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Gazebo PMC Meeting Minutes 2026-09-28

Hi Gazebo Community! This week’s meeting was held on Mon, Sep 28, 2026 6:00 PM UTC and the following is a summary: PMC Business Formal Decision: Accepted REP-158: OpenUSD Conventions for Simulation Asset…

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A Day in the Life of a Roboticist: Charlie Kemp

Building useful robots starts with understanding the people who use them. For Charlie Kemp, cofounder and chief technology officer of Hello Robot, that means developing assistive robots that can help people with…

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Small, medium or large, a robotic fish maintains its swimming ability

The scalable robot ScaFi. 2026 CREATE Lab EPFL. CC BY SA-4.0. Propeller-powered underwater vehicles have long helped scientists explore and monitor aquatic environments. But they’re limited by their own mechanics…

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IIT Madras and Bechtel India Launch Rs. 33 mn Construction Robotics Lab

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ANSCER Robotics Advances Global Expansion with U.S. Conditional Approval

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Center-Pivot System Modified to Mow Lawn

When flying over the United States, Australia, and a few other vast and relatively empty parts of the world, strange circular formations can be spotted. These are typically center-pivot irrigation …read more

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Video Friday: Life’s Better With a Little Robot Goose

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us…

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Robot Talk Episode 163 – Robots helping people, with Aaron Edsinger

Claire chatted to Aaron Edsinger from Hello Robot about their Stretch robots that can help people with mobility issues live more independently. Aaron Edsinger is CEO and Co-Founder of Hello Robot, a robotics company…

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An open source approach to physical AI from Intrinsic

Deborah Lupton / Pop Chips / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0 Intrinsic (an AI robotics group at Google) announced that the company is making parts of its platform open source. Intrinsic Core™ is a set of ROS-compatible…

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Robot Makes Literal Daisy Chains

[Jude Robinson]’s robot Daisy has an unusual function: making a literal chain of daisies. The device is his student final project and demonstrates how a system can replace sensing with …read more

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Mexican EPICS in IEEE Team Builds Portable Educational Platform

In Guadalajara, Mexico, many high schools have motivated teachers and talented students with an interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, but they lack access to advanced tools such as robotics…

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What’s coming up at #IROS2026?

The 2026 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2026) will be held from 27 September – 1 October in Pittsburgh, USA. The programme includes plenary and keynote talks, workshops…

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Robotics roadmaps from around the world spotlight of the month: China

China is targeting the next industrial revolution by doubling down on embodied AI and humanoid robotics, building directly on its vast manufacturing infrastructure. By Ellen H. Rumley and Allison Okamura Beyond the…

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Barbara Mazzolai Wants to Build a New Field of Robotics

Throughout her career, roboticist Barbara Mazzolai has turned to nature for inspiration. Now she wants to ensure the technology she builds gives back to the environment, too. After starting her career as a biologist, a…

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Meet Nuvi: the AI desk companion that goes from Q to cute

Luca Di Lorenzo (@LucaDilo on YouTube) recently worked with us on what was meant to be a simple robot assistant, but soon became something much more fun: a tiny, expressive desktop companion that notices you, listens to…

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Accelerating a ROS 2 Node with an AI Agent and NVIDIA Isaac ROS

GPU acceleration can speed up compute-intensive robotics workloads, but a fast CUDA kernel alone does not guarantee a fast ROS 2 graph. As messages move between...

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IIT Madras inaugurates construction robotics lab in a CSR-funded partnership with Bechtel India

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Isaac ROS 5.0.0

Merge pull request #244 from NVIDIA-ISAAC-ROS/release-5.0 Release Isaac ROS 5.0

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Mars rovers give scientists a ground-level view of the red planet – peek inside their NASA control room

Each day in the control room of the Curiosity rover is jam-packed with important scientific decisions, as a NASA project scientist describes.

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Teaching a Robot Hand to Walk

Although it wasn’t apparently designed with this in mind, it seems particularly fortuitous that this walking robotic hand was released in time for Halloween. Designed by researchers from ETH Zurich, …read more

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Video Friday: Two Birotors Make a Quadrotor

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us…

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Reimagining robotics for sustainability

By Celia Luterbacher Imagine a robot designed to install solar panels with much greater speed and precision than a human. The robot is made from expensive materials and powered by a heavy battery that must be recharged…

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MoveIt 2 2.15.2

2.15.2

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Rethinking Robot Safety in the Age of AI

This article is brought to you by VicOne . Robot safety has traditionally asked: Can a machine remain safe when something goes wrong? Physical AI raises a harder question: Can a machine remain safe when an attacker…

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Watch the ICRA keynote and plenary talks

The 2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA) was held in Vienna from the 1 – 5 June. The event brought together researchers and industry professionals with expertise spanning many different…

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Nav2 1.5.2

Lyrical Sync 1: Sept 15, 2026

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Digit 5 May Be the First Humanoid Robot Worker That’s Truly Safe

Despite the recent deluge of videos of humanoid robots doing backflips and kung fu, the actual pace of progress towards humanoids that can do economically viable jobs at scale has at times seemed a bit plodding. There…

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MYWAI™ VILMA™ is designed to bring human-like learning to robots via one-shot demonstration

Every day, hundreds of thousands of kits are prepared in warehouses before components ever reach an automotive production line. While robots have become commonplace in modern manufacturing, many upstream logistics…

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ROS 2 Humble Hawksbill - Patch Release 15

These are the binary packages for ROS 2 Humble Hawksbill Patch Release 15 (2026-09-14) For runtime dependencies, see the binary package installation instructions . Your system must be up-to-date to be compatible with…

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Robots in society, business and culture: August 2026

Credit: Baumis Robots (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology). By Emmet Cole In our new monthly series, we showcase a selection of robotics stories from society, business, research, and culture, as we track the field’s…

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Video Friday: Humanoid Robot Takes On Monkey Bars

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us…

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Building and programming autonomous robots at the York Micromaze Hackathon

From 25–27 August, UK RAS STEPS members came together at the University of York’s Institute for Safe Autonomy for a three-day Micromaze Robot Hackathon. Working in teams, participants were challenged to design, build…

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Little Droid Has Party Mode

Remember those tiny little droids skittering around the pristine corridors of the Death Star in Star Wars? [heychaostheory] has put together something vaguely along the lines of those charming little mobile …read more

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Robots Are Learning to Feel

Dexterous manipulation remains one of the biggest barriers keeping robots from successfully tackling a wide range of everyday tasks. A sense of touch could be the key, but a lack of quality data has held back progress…

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ros2_control 6.10.1

6.10.1

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ros2_control 5.18.1

5.18.1

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This Robot Will Draw Your Blood Now

You sit down and put your arm in the cradle. You press a button. The machine takes it from there. A near-infrared light sweeps your inner elbow, hunting for a vein. A puff of alcohol hits your skin. An ultrasound probe…

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DepthAI ros-old-v3.10.0

ros-old-v3.10.0

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DepthAI ros-v3.10.0

ros-v3.10.0

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ArduPilot Sub-4.7.1

Sub-4.7.1 was released as the stable version for submarines on 04-Sep-2026 Release announcement: https://discuss.ardupilot.org/t/sub-4-7-1-released/145388

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ArduPilot Tracker-4.7.1

Tracker-4.7.1 was released as the stable version on 04-Sep-2026 Release announcement: https://discuss.ardupilot.org/t/tracker-4-7-1-released/145387

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MoveIt 2 2.5.10

2.5.10

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Making a Robot to Serve Some Mean Badminton Shuttlecocks

Sometimes regarded as a less violent form of tennis, badminton is still a pretty challenging sport. One which suffers like so many sports from requiring at least two players since …read more

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Low(er)-Cost Humanoid Robot Leverages DIY Actuators

Humanoid robots, even scaled-down ones, tend to be expensive. The Berkeley Humanoid Lite offers a more accessible and economical option by centering the design around 3D printed actuators that make …read more

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How to Train a Cross-Embodiment Robot Navigation Policy with AI Agents

Navigation enables a robot to turn perception and motion into purposeful autonomy. Unlike locomotion, which produces stable movement, navigation must be used to...

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Nav2 1.3.13

Jazzy sync

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Gazebo Sim gz-sim11_11.0.0-pre1: Fix graded buoyancy for rotated collision shapes (#3880)

Assisted-by: Claude Fable 5 noreply@anthropic.com Signed-off-by: Carlos Agüero caguero@honurobotics.com

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