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AUGUST 16, 2022

Last week, Hyundai Motor Group and Boston Dynamics announced an initial investment of over $400 million to launch the new Boston Dynamics AI Institute. If we can start by looking back a little bit—what kind of company did you want Boston Dynamics to be when you founded it in 1992? It took a while before we got back to robotics.

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AUGUST 18, 2021

Yesterday's video from Boston Dynamics showing a pair of Atlas robots doing parkour together is already up to nearly 3 million views, and for good reason. And happily, Boston Dynamics had answers! Kuindersma and Stephens: When building robots like Atlas, there's always a long list of engineering tradeoffs that shape the final design.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Li-ion battery maker Boston-Power Inc. By utilizing Boston-Power’s Swing Cell products, customers can realize the ease of assembly benefits of large format modules while retaining the benefits of packing density, reliability and thermal performance that come with using Boston-Power’s small form-factor battery cells.

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APRIL 4, 2023

The Robotics Summit & Expo , taking place May 10-11 at the Boston Convention Center, will bring together the brightest minds in robotics to share their commercial robotics development experiences. Gain full access to the world’s leading event dedicated to commercial robotics development with our discounted rate.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2016

nuTonomy , developer of software for self-driving cars, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the City of Boston and the Massachusetts Department of Transportation that authorizes nuTonomy to begin testing its growing fleet of self-driving cars on specific public streets in a designated area of Boston. Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 31, 2022

Factorial Energy, a developer of solid-state battery technology for electric vehicle (EV) applications, will establish a new advanced manufacturing facility in the Boston suburb of Methuen, Mass. The new facility will produce Factorial’s new solid-state battery cell technology for EVs. Based in Woburn, Mass.,

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JULY 10, 2019

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $24 million in funding for 77 projects supported by the Office of Technology Transitions (OTT) Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF). Commercializing 3D Printable Feedstocks for the Advanced Manufacturing of Energy Products, $300,000 MilliporeSigma, St. Louis , Mo.

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OCTOBER 7, 2022

Electra has raised $85 million to produce Low-Temperature Iron (LTI) from commercial and low-grade ores using zero-carbon intermittent electricity. The “Iron Ore Challenge”: Commercial iron ores with iron content of 62% or higher are projected to be in short supply by the early 2030s.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Ford celebrated the production start of the all-new F-150 at the Ford Rouge Center and confirmed construction of the new Rouge Electric Vehicle Center where it will build the all-electric F-150 by mid-2022. Rendering of the Rouge Electric Vehicle Center.

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OCTOBER 9, 2021

million project will diagnose sources of degradation in commercial electrolysis cells and will validate advanced designs that use higher stack currents. In June, Electric Hydrogen closed a $24-million Series A financing to support continued product development and expansion of its operations in the Greater Boston and San Francisco Bay areas.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2023

60% domestic value‐added is Li‐Bridge’s 2030 goal US industry is still 10 to 20 years behind Asia, and about five years behind Europe, in commercializing manufacturing of this critical technology. This is up from the 30% domestic value-added most likely to result from doing business as usual.

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AUGUST 17, 2021

Boston Dynamics has just posted a couple of new videos showing their Atlas humanoid robot doing some of the most impressive parkour we've yet seen. Parkour is the perfect sandbox for the Atlas team at Boston Dynamics to experiment with new behaviors. Let's watch!

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NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The commitments aim to be collectively significant enough to commercialize decarbonization technologies. The eighth, direct air capture, could reduce atmospheric carbon-dioxide levels to help achieve net-zero global emissions but also requires technological innovation to reach commercial viability. Founding members are A.P.

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JANUARY 5, 2021

It will also accelerate the building of EV infrastructure. Hyundai Motor Group will apply Level 3 autonomous driving technology to mass production models in 2022 and push for commercialization projects for autonomous driving technologies such as robotaxi services in 2023. —Chairman Chung. Motional Inc., Motional Inc.,

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JANUARY 23, 2023

With Boston Dynamics’ recent(ish) emphasis on making robots that can do things that are commercially useful , it’s always good to be gently reminded that the company is still at the cutting edge of dynamic humanoid robotics. Or in this case, forcefully reminded.

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AUGUST 22, 2024

Boardwalk Robotics is announcing its entry into the increasingly crowded commercial humanoid(ish) space with Alex, a “workforce transformation” humanoid upper torso designed to work in manufacturing, logistics, and maintenance. You can buy it for research purposes, if you want, but Boardwalk will be selling Alex as a commercial robot.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2019

The $300-million investment will build on Electrify America’s initial priorities and expand into new areas, where the need for electric vehicle charging stations and technology are greatest or are most likely to be used regularly.

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JUNE 1, 2009

Boston-Power, Inc., maker of the long-lasting, fast-charging Sonata Li-ion battery for laptops, is planning to build a 455,000 square foot manufacturing facility in Auburn, Massachusetts that would complement its existing China-based operations. Boston-Power uses cobalt and manganese on the cathode with graphite on the anode.

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JULY 7, 2020

University of Colorado Boulder researchers, with colleagues at Boston University, have developed a new optical phased array concept—the serpentine OPA (SOPA)—that could support medium- to long-range lidar. Current commercial lidar systems use large, rotating mirrors to steer the laser beam and thereby create a 3-D image.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The recent progress in commercial humanoids is just exhausting. Notable that Boston Dynamics is now saying that Atlas “gets ready for real work.” Boston Dynamics ] You deserve to be free from endless chores! The bit at the end there was Nadia not quite managing to do lateral arm raises. IHMC ] Thanks, Robert!

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FEBRUARY 16, 2022

For the rest of this century, humankind will be building cities at an unprecedented pace. But there are two other factors that will supercharge the building boom. One problem with our current building methods is that they have a high carbon footprint , meaning that the act of building will increase the need for yet more building.

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OCTOBER 7, 2022

Yesterday, six companies that build or support sophisticated mobile robots (led by Boston Dynamics). Along with Agility Robotics, ANYbotics, Clearpath Robotics, Open Robotics, and Unitree, Boston Dynamics’ letter seeks to ensure that its robots are used safely and ethically, in a way that helps rather than harms.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2021

link] [ ROS.org ] Boston Dynamics should know better than to post new videos on Fridays (as opposed to Thursday nights, when I put this post together every week), but if you missed this last week, here you go. Robot choreography by Boston Dynamics and Monica Thomas. Fraunhofer ] Who needs Digit when Cassie is still hard at work!

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JUNE 21, 2023

The company aims to build an app ecosystem through the application of an open operating system and controller integration, including Level 3 and higher autonomous driving capabilities, high-performance semiconductors and over-the-air (OTA) update advancements. Production. It plans to convert additional lines as market demand dictates.

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OCTOBER 14, 2022

Outside of California, the device has been approved for use by commercial fleet vehicles in Michigan, Arizona, and Texas, and 10 additional U.S. per month for 48 months; a hard-wired version for commercial vehicles sells for $24.95 Boston said three more U.S. states are considering authorization. Not a bad list.

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OCTOBER 17, 2024

Companies like ChargePoint and Blink build the chargers, and try to get them procured by cities. Think about somebody’s sidewalk in front of their building. In some cases, commercial properties install their own lighting. Does somebody build those for you to your specifications? Boston has very narrow streets.

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JULY 11, 2024

With our battery-electric air taxi set to fundamentally change the way we move around cities, we’re excited to now be building a technology stack that could redefine regional travel using hydrogen-electric aircraft.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2015

With a central location in the Boston metropolitan area, Somerville is a role model for “smart cities.” By means of urban redevelopment, new dwellings, offices and commercial real estate will be built. After Silicon Valley, this region has the fastest-growing economy in North America.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

“Rivian has built an exceptional brand with two incredible consumer vehicles, the R1T and R1S, as well as category-defining commercial vans at its core,” he stated. “I look forward to chart paths into new markets, build new partnerships and customer experiences.”

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NOVEMBER 5, 2021

link] [ ROS.org ] Boston Dynamics should know better than to post new videos on Fridays (as opposed to Thursday nights, when I put this post together every week), but if you missed this last week, here you go. Robot choreography by Boston Dynamics and Monica Thomas. Fraunhofer ] Who needs Digit when Cassie is still hard at work!

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MARCH 2, 2023

Today, a robotics startup called Figure is unveiling “the world’s first commercially viable general purpose humanoid robot,” called Figure 01. And if anyone is going to take a useful humanoid robot from an engineering concept to commercial reality, these are the folks to do it.

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DECEMBER 30, 2021

During the past 20 years, deep learning has come to dominate artificial intelligence research and applications through a series of useful commercial applications. It is an appealing approach, but its results were all too often insufficient to build a model of how the biological brain really works.”

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JULY 1, 2022

Since then, researchers at SRI have continued to optimize the system to work with today’s commercial robot arms, bringing high dexterity telemanipulation to a wide range of industries. [ SRI ] Meet Josh, a mechanical engineer at Boston Dynamics.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Boston Dynamics put together a behind-the-scenes video of sorts about the Super Bowl commercial they did in collaboration with some beer company or other. Boston Dynamics ] Power-line perching could be an easy way for urban drones to keep their batteries topped up, but landing on power lines can be tricky.

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OCTOBER 8, 2016

In addition, Nauto is working with the insurance industry to provide insights that help insurers offer enhanced services and build long-lasting customer relationships.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Back in 2005, before smartphones were generally available, MIT Professor Hari Balakrishnan was so fed up with commuting delays in Boston that he built a mobile system to monitor road conditions. Their research won several awards, and the system was covered by The Boston Globe. We showed that it could work at scale. “I

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Baua Electric

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Companies like ChargePoint and Blink build the chargers, and try to get them procured by cities. Think about somebody’s sidewalk in front of their building. In some cases, commercial properties install their own lighting. Does somebody build those for you to your specifications? Boston has very narrow streets.

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