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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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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. This way, the benefits carry forward to all of Atlas’s behaviors.

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JANUARY 5, 2021

It will also accelerate the building of EV infrastructure. The Group recently introduced a dedicated HTWO brand for fuel cell systems as part of such efforts. In 2023, the company will work with US car-sharing provider Lyft to launch autonomous driving commercialization services in major U.S. —Chairman Chung. Motional Inc.,

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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. liter diesel vehicles in the United States.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2022

For the rest of this century, humankind will be building cities at an unprecedented pace. billion to more than 10 billion, and much of that increase will occur in parts of the world that lag in infrastructure. But there are two other factors that will supercharge the building boom.

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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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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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APRIL 17, 2024

Boston Dynamics has just introduced a new Atlas humanoid robot , replacing the legendary hydraulic Atlas and intended to be a commercial product. Playter became the CEO in 2019, helping the company make the difficult transition from R&D to commercial products with Spot , Stretch , and now (or very soon) Atlas.

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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. Cybathlon ] Will drone deliveries be a practical part of our future?

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JUNE 21, 2023

The key parts of the company’s strategy include introducing a next-generation modular architecture for EVs, strengthening EV production capacity, battery development capabilities and future businesses. In the existing system, auto parts can only be shared among vehicles that share the same platform. Production.

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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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OCTOBER 8, 2016

Autonomous vehicle technology company Nauto has entered into strategic agreements with three major auto companies, including BMW i Ventures and Toyota Research Institute, as well as with Allianz Ventures, part of the leading global financial service provider and insurance company Allianz Group.

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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. Cybathlon ] Will drone deliveries be a practical part of our future?

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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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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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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. And while the tool is slowly learning a new database, an arbitrary part of its learned memories can suddenly collapse. He calls his model Adaptive Resonance Theory (ART).

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APRIL 14, 2017

Chicago, Portland, Boston, Seattle, Philadelphia, Denver, Houston, Miami, and Raleigh—and several highway corridors. Electrify America plans to build charging infrastructure that will primarily consist of (1) community charging and (2) a long-distance highway network. Background. As required by Appendix C to the 2.0-Liter

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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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OCTOBER 6, 2017

Imperium3 New York will commercialize an innovative technology for making more efficient and less expensive lithium ion batteries while operating the state’s first giga-factory producing lithium ion batteries, producing 3GWh of batteries by Q4 2019, growing to 15 GWh. Cuomo announced that Imperium3 New York, Inc., Magnis Resources, Ltd.,

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JULY 30, 2023

Goodenough was familiar with Whittingham’s work, in part because Whittingham had earned his Ph.D. Like many universities of the day, it did not concern itself with intellectual property, believing such matters to be confined to the commercial world. Goodenough at the University of Oxford was the next scientist to pick up the baton.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Boston Dynamics ] Some very clever work from UZH, leveraging depth cameras to target 3D sensors on stuff you care about: the parts of the scene that move. Paper ] This historic BLACK HAWK flight marks the first time that a UH-60 has flown autonomously and builds on recent demonstrations at the U.S.

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OCTOBER 17, 2022

It is also intended to show off the sensor, which is the same type used for commercial electronic noses, or. Add in Costanzo and Coelho’s other collaborators—including an electronic nose expert in England, several clinicians in Boston, and a businessman in Indiana—and you have a dream team who just might make it happen.

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EV Match

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Most of these buildings were designed (and built) long before EVs hit the mainstream. As part of an ongoing charger deployment program with Burlington Electric Department, we have installed stations at 2-4-plexes, HOA properties, and apartment buildings of all sizes.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2023

HRI 2023 : 13–16 March 2023, STOCKHOLM Robotics Summit & Expo : 10–11 May 2023, BOSTON ICRA 2023 : 29 May–2 June 2023, LONDON RoboCup 2023 : 4–10 July 2023, BORDEAUX, FRANCE RSS 2023 : 10–14 July 2023, DAEGU, KOREA IEEE RO-MAN 2023 : 28–31 August 2023, BUSAN, KOREA CLAWAR 2023 : 2–4 October 2023, FLORIANOPOLIS, BRAZIL Enjoy today’s videos!

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AUGUST 10, 2021

He was part of a team there developing missile and rocket systems, including the Atlas missile, which was used in Friendship 7. While there, he suggested the company build more accurate calibration systems. The OCCHC builds apartments and homes in low-income neighborhoods. He left the Army with the rank of sergeant.

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DECEMBER 14, 2011

The 19 launch markets also include Atlanta; Austin and Houston, Texas; Boston; Chicago; Denver; Detroit; Los Angeles; San Francisco; San Diego; New York; Orlando, Fla.; Availability of the Focus Electric will expand in 2012 to the remaining 15 launch markets as production ramps up. Phoenix and Tucson, Ariz.; Portland, Ore.; Richmond, Va.;

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JULY 15, 2023

Army Reserve base near Boston, an unusual structure is rising from the rolling hills. Brandon Sorbom , the scientific director of Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) , leads me toward the center of the building’s cross-shaped footprint, weaving among scaffolding, forklifts, and teams of welders and painters. On the site of a former U.S.

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Blink Charging

JUNE 23, 2023

As more workers get electric vehicles and EV chargers get added to local building codes for new buildings , EV charging will become a standard employee benefit. While Level 2 chargers are relatively easy to install, some buildings may require electrical upgrades to add new circuits to the panel.

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JUNE 23, 2023

As more workers get electric vehicles and EV chargers get added to local building codes for new buildings , EV charging will become a standard employee benefit. While Level 2 chargers are relatively easy to install, some buildings may require electrical upgrades to add new circuits to the panel.

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MAY 2, 2014

In the electrolysis process, copper sulfide ore is added to an electrolyte, and the chemical transformation of the copper sulfide into its constituent parts takes place on two electrodes in the electrolyte: an anode and a cathode. C, and resulted in a patent, a Nature paper, and a spinoff company, Boston Electrometallurgical Corp.

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MARCH 11, 2023

The concept behind V2G had gained traction in the late 1990s after California’s landmark zero-emission-vehicle (ZEV) mandate went into effect and compelled automakers to commercialize electric cars. Over time, however, the research focus in bidirectional EV applications shifted from the grid to homes and commercial buildings.

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JUNE 24, 2013

This new institute is part of a $10-million commitment over the next five years toward building a stronger materials innovation ecosystem. DOE building on FY12 investments to advance MGI. MIT launching MOOC on innovation and commercialization of materials technologies.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Center for the Commercialization of Electric Technologies (TX). This effort will build on Austin Energy’s existing Smart Grid programs by creating a microgrid that will initially link 1,000 residential smart meters, 75 commercial meters, and plug-in electric vehicle charging sites. NSTAR Electric & Gas Corporation (MA).

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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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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 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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APRIL 24, 2022

CoSTAR’s pack of quadrupeds, consisting of Spot robots from Boston Dynamics modified with customized autonomy payloads [middle], undergo a hardware check before their final competition run. Autonomy was a necessary part of SubT, but having a human in the loop was critical as well. Evan Ackerman. Evan Ackerman.

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