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Sen. Brian Schatz of Hawaii posted a picture of himself climbing a coconut tree. Recently, social-media users have been overlaying their coconut-tree videos with songs from the singer Charli XCX ...

It was then that I noticed the coconut tree right outside my bathroom. And, that was the light-bulb moment for me. I decided to make a futuristic robot that can climb coconut trees and harvest the ...