Platypus' proprietary app helps control the boat autonomously, using the handset's camera to provide situational awareness.
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The Aberdeen-based company said it was suspending the Platypus well for future production use.
As enjoyable as the CR-Z is on its own merits, it is a platypus of a car.
Do we save a single platypus at the expense of, say, ten species of almost identical dandelions?
Electroreception is well known in fish and amphibians, but until now the only mammal example was the platypus.
Dana holds a 59% operating interest in Platypus, which was discovered by the oil and gas explorer in 2010.
Modern mammals divide into three overarching groups: the placentals (most species, including man), the marsupials (kangaroos and their like) and the monotremes (the egg-laying platypus and echidnas).
Platypus LLC build autonomous robotic airboats that can be deployed for a wide range of usages including environmental data and monitoring hard-to-reach spots after natural disasters like flooding.
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The preferred share is the platypus of the investing world.
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The sprawling lake, estimated at being two thirds the area of Sydney Harbour, is framed by the Danbulla Forest, a green blanket of rainforest, pine and scrub that offers refuge to kangaroos, bird colonies and platypus.
Placental mammals - as opposed to the kind that lay eggs, such as the platypus, or carry young in pouches, such as the kangaroo - are an extraordinarily diverse group of animals with more than 5, 000 species today.
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