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Mon. Mar. 05, 2012 Boston Dynamics running robot sets speed record A prototype built by Boston Dynamics in Waltham reached a speed of 18 miles per hour, a new record for legged robots, the company said today. The previous record was 13.1 miles per hour, set at MIT in 1989, according to Boston Dynamics. “This robot is galloping,” said Boston Dynamics president Marc Raibert. “It’s the first time we’ve had a robot that gallops.” Development of the robot, called Cheetah, is funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA.	Advertisement
Gas prices rise another nickel Massachusetts gas prices are up for the 11th consecutive week.
Boeing 787 Dreamliner provides civilized experience on flight to Newark Globe reporter Katie Johnston this morning flew on a special 787 flight from Boston to Newark this morning, which starts flying out of Boston on Japan Airlines’ new nonstop route to Tokyo next month. Something that every 787 passenger is bound to notice is the incredible amount of light that fills the plane. The windows are 30 percent larger than on similarly sized airplanes, and it’s easy to see outside, even from the middle aisle, without leaning over and craning your neck into uncomfortable contortions.
Changes in regulations could make big difference for small Massachusetts businesses Governor Deval Patrick today will unveil plans to eliminate or revise some 150 regulations that state agencies have identified as barriers to the growth of small businesses. Patrick will also announce that he has named April Anderson Lamoureux as the contact point for anybody from any industry who has ideas on how to reduce such barriers. Anderson Lamoureux is the assistant undersecretary for economic development in the Office of Housing and Economic Development.
Another residential tower is proposed for Boston’s growing seaport district A new development team today unveiled plans for a 300-unit apartment tower in Boston’s Innovation District. Skanska USA Commercial Development Inc. and Twining Properties said they will build the tower, to be called Watermark Seaport, at the corner of Seaport Boulevard and Boston Wharf Road. It will be part of the 25-acre Seaport Square project that is expected to fill in many of the Innovation District’s vast surface parking lots in coming years.
OneUnited Bank protest draws several hundred to Charles Street AME church Several hundred people gathered at the Charles Street African Methodist Episcopal church Sunday evening to protest OneUnited Bank’s effort to foreclose and auction off the historic black church’s property following a dispute over a loan. Led by Boston TenPoint Coalition chief Rev. Jeffrey Brown, a host of local ministers and politicians and community leaders crowded onto the altar and gave a series of impassioned sermons against what they called greed and injustice, and called on the bank’s owners to come to the negotiating table.
Boston group only bidder to operate public food market along the Greenway The nonprofit Boston Public Market Association is the only group to submit a proposal to operate a planned food market along the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway, state officials said.
Globe series on mislabeling fish cited as Taylor Family Award for Fairness finalist A Boston Globe series on fish mislabeling was one of two finalists for the 2011 Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Newspapers, administered by Harvard University’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism. The series “Fishy Business,” was the result of a five-month investigation by reporters Jenn Abelson and Beth Daley. They found that consumers routinely and unknowingly overpay for less desirable fish, some of which can cause illness. The series involved DNA testing of samples collected from 134 restaurants, grocery stores, and seafood markets.
Union workers threatening to strike at gas plants in Everett and Weymouth Members of a local utility workers union are considering striking if they can’t reach agreement with the owner of natural-gas power plants in Everett and Weymouth over health care costs and safety concerns. The Utility Workers Union of America Local 369 voted last week to authorize a strike, citing a lack of progress in contract negotiations with Constellation Energy, a Maryland company that owns the Fore River plant in Weymouth and two Mystic facilities in Everett. The current contract expires at midnight Tuesday..
Ministers plan protest of bank’s effort to foreclose on historic Roxbury church A group of black ministers, led by Rev. Eugene Rivers, is planning a protest Sunday evening at the Charles Street African Methodist Episcopal Church in Roxbury over OneUnited Bank’s effort to foreclose on the historic church and auction off its property. Rivers and ministers from the Boston TenPoint Coalition said they would call for a national boycott of minority-owned OneUnited Bank if it does not back away from its threat to auction off Charles Street AME.
Survey: Companies are offering employees more incentives to get healthy More companies are offering incentives to their employees to better manage their health by taking such steps as getting flu shots or regular cholesterol screenings, according to a new survey from Boston-based Fidelity Investments and the National Business Group on Health. Companies in the survey said that the average annual value of the health-related incentives they offered to an employee in 2011 was $460, up from $260 in 2009.
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