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For the next few weeks, TechCrunch’s robotics newsletter Actuator will be running Q&As with some of the top minds in robotics. Subscribe here for future updates.  Part 1: CMU’s Matthew Johnson-Roberson This week, we’ve got a two-fer. Toyota Research Institute’s Russ Tedrake and Max Bajracharya split the job. Tedrake is TRI’s vice president of Robotics Research. He is also MIT’s Toyota Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering and Aero/Astro. Bajracharya is…

One of a kind? Well, Russ Millions was the first drill rapper with a No 1 single, Body (Remix), which led to a nomination at last year’s Ivor Novello awards. But, as hugely enjoyable as this mixtape is, it doesn’t quite answer the question. Most of these 43 minutes we’ve already heard, the Londoner’s effervescent flow slaying whatever beat is brought to it. Sometimes Millions relishes sound more than language, joyfully deploying an array of vocal tics and tricks such as his “Shatta” tag or onomatopoeic plosives such as…

Just in time for the Christmas and New Year parties, one-man party-starter Russ Millions is back with a box-fresh new banger stacked with quotables and an earworm beat to stick with you well into 2023. A much more trimmed-back collaboration than the “Body” remix (although who knows what the future might hold?), this one features French The Kid and “Latest Trends” duo A1 X J1.Produced by Jaygo, it doesn’t quite jump out of the gates the way some of Russ’ past hits did, but between the slow, murky 808s and his insistent…

Late last year, Ed Sheeran and Russ collaborated on a track called “Are You Entertained”, which just dropped today. The original plan had been for Jamal Edwards to direct the video, but he tragically passed away the day before shooting was to start.Since then, and with the encouragement of Jamal’s mother and sister, Ed and Russ have teamed up with a new director, Jake Nava, to instead shoot the video as a salute to Jamal, the lives he touched, and his monumental legacy in the music industry. The visuals landed alongside…