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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! This is a pretty big deal.

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JUNE 3, 2024

Ltd is a subsidiary of Dongfeng Motor Corporation that has been building vehicles just as long as its parent company, most recently crossovers and MPVs under the Fengxing nameplate, as well as vans and other vehicles for Lingzhi and Jingyi. Dongfeng Liuzhou Motor Co., The Ubtech Walker S robots are 1.7 What a time to be alive.

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DECEMBER 28, 2021

A new generation of robots with the intelligence and flexibility to handle the kind of variation that people take in stride is entering warehouse environments. A prime example is Stretch , a new robot from Boston Dynamics that can move heavy boxes where they need to go just as fast as an experienced warehouse worker.

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APRIL 11, 2024

Last December, the AI Institute announced that it was opening an office in Zurich as a European counterpart to its Boston headquarters and recruited Marco Hutter to helm the office. Hutter: If you look at Boston Dynamics’ Atlas doing parkour, or ANYmal doing parkour, these are still demonstrations. Do you feel the same?

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NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Carty banged his gavel at the Engineering Societies Building in New York City to call to order a meeting of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. AIEE members and guests in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, New York, Philadelphia, Salt Lake City, and San Francisco had telephone receivers at their seats so they could listen in.

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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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JANUARY 5, 2021

It will also accelerate the building of EV infrastructure. Overseas, the Group plans to have EV charging infrastructure optimized for market-specific environments with various partners, including IONITY, Europe’s leading high-power charging network in which the Group made a strategic investment.

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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. co-author and associate professor of engineering at Boston University. —Miloš A. There’s still a long way to go.

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MARCH 29, 2024

Columbia engineers build Emo, a silicon-clad robotic face that makes eye contact and uses two AI models to anticipate and replicate a person’s smile before the person actually smiles—a major advance in robots predicting human facial expressions accurately, improving interactions, and building trust between humans and robots.

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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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APRIL 12, 2024

Sanctuary AI ] “Suzume” is an animated film by Makoto Shinkai, in which one of the characters gets turned into a three-legged chair: Shintaro Inoue from JSK Lab at the University of Tokyo has managed to build a robotic version of that same chair, which is pretty impressive: [ Github ] Thanks, Shintaro!

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JUNE 6, 2017

By combining forces with Lyft in the US, we’ll be positioned to build the best passenger experience for self-driving cars. The collaborative R&D effort will take place in Boston, MA, where nuTonomy has been testing its self-driving electric cars since the beginning of the year. The tests are being conducted in Boston’s Raymond L.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Starting from the technological building blocks of Atlas, Stretch has the mobility, power, and intelligence to automate the industry’s toughest challenges. Boston Dynamics ] What do the robots do on Halloween after everyone leaves? Join the Ingenuity Labs robots on their trick or treating adventure. Paper ] Thanks Samarth!

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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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DECEMBER 30, 2021

The inability of a typical deep learning program to perform well on more than one task, for example, severely limits application of the technology to specific tasks in rigidly controlled environments. 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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OCTOBER 1, 2021

IROS 2021 – September 27-1, 2021 – [Online Event] Robo Boston – October 1-2, 2021 – Boston, MA, USA WearRAcon Europe 2021 – October 5-7, 2021 – [Online Event] ROSCon 2021 – October 20-21, 2021 – [Online Event] Let us know if you have suggestions for next week, and enjoy today's videos, more below! Kodiak ] Thanks Kylee!

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APRIL 21, 2023

Inspired by the adaptable nature of organic brains, researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have introduced a method for robust flight navigation agents to master vision-based fly-to-target tasks in intricate, unfamiliar environments. Boston Dynamics ] What can robots actually do.today?

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APRIL 4, 2023

The R&D center will focus on building partnerships with Chinese universities and research institutes to secure core battery technologies, according to a report by Korea JoongAng Daily on April 2. Samsung SDI opened SDI R&D Europe (SDIRE) in Munich last July and SDI R&D America (SDIRA) in Boston last August.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2023

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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MARCH 17, 2023

Skydio ] Voxel robots have been extensively simulated because they’re easy to simulated, but not extensively built because they’re hard to build. We propose Kinodynamic Fabrics as an approach for the specification, solution and simultaneous execution of multiple motion tasks in real-time while being reactive to dynamism in the environment.

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JUNE 21, 2024

These novel bodily interactions with the environment can give rise to new types of embodied intelligence. [ Inspired by metamaterials that can employ mechanisms, we build a framework that allows users to configure cells of this passive structure to allow it to perform complex tasks. [ ARL ] Thanks, Kostas!

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FEBRUARY 4, 2022

In contrast to our previous multi-contact videos where contact points for the feet and hands had to be specified manually by the user, this time all contacts are autonomously planned by the robot itself based on the perceived environment. [ The ballbot is actively compensating for the additional payload weight.

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JULY 1, 2022

SRI ] Meet Josh, a mechanical engineer at Boston Dynamics. Hear his perspective on what goes into building a robot–from learning the right skills, to collaborating across teams, to designing and testing new parts. It can generate motions in rough environments for a variety of different gaits in real time.

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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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JULY 10, 2019

Advanced Flow Meter for Extreme Environments (AFMEE), $100,000 MicroNuclear LLC, Franklin, Tenn. Quanex Building Products Corporation, Houston, Texas SCP SYS LLC, San Francisco, Calif. Institute for Building Technology and Safety (IBTS), San Jose, Calif. El Centro, Calif. Idaho National Laboratory. Louisville, Colo. Louis , Mo.

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MARCH 10, 2023

features the Spot robots from Boston Dynamics in relation with human beings. Coperni ] Meet the third-generation prototype Honda Autonomous Work Vehicle (AWV), a new category of capable work vehicle that can operate autonomously in a variety of dynamic work environments. Please send us your events for inclusion. Paper ] Roboball?

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MARCH 13, 2013

Ballard Power Systems signed a supply agreement with the Center for Transportation and the Environment for a 150 kW FCvelocity-HD6 fuel cell module to be integrated into a bus that will be deployed with CTTransit in Hartford, Connecticut. The All-American fuel cell hybrid bus is expected to be delivered in 2015. Earlier post.).

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JULY 22, 2023

Boston Dynamics, developer of the Spot and Atlas robots, may have been the first company to be accused of “ robot abuse ” because of its videos, and the company frequently includes footage of its research robots being unsuccessful as well as successful on YouTube. This is a relatively recent development.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2022

In December of 2021 at the mock lunar surface environment in JAXA’s Sagamihara Campus, the GITAI lunar robotic rover R1 conducted numerous tasks and mobility operations, successfully completing all planned tests. This is cool looking, but I'd need to know more about how this system can deal with an actual lunar environment, right?

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MARCH 3, 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 20, 2021

DARPA competitions to build on. Besides, autonomous cars live in a highly constrained action space within a semi-constrained environment, and Tesla cars in particular have plenty of well-known issues with their autonomy. But humanoid robots are much different, and much more complicated. With rockets, well, we already had rockets.

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APRIL 15, 2022

LOVOT ] Meet Cassie, an electrical engineer at Boston Dynamics, as she answers real questions from kids and other curious minds—from how to start a career in robotics to Spot’s favorite color. Boston Dynamics ] 2021 research highlights from the CNRS-AIST Joint Robotics Laboratory.

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MARCH 2, 2023

Over the past year, Figure has hired more than 40 engineers from institutions that include IHMC, Boston Dynamics, Tesla, Waymo, and Google X, most of whom have significant prior experience with humanoid robots or other autonomous systems. This relates back to the reason why Figure is building a humanoid robot in the first place.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2021

It's less of a dig and more of an acknowledgement that getting mobile manipulators to usefully operate in semi-structured environments has been, and continues to be, a huge challenge. It might be effective when constrained to a research environment, but fundamentally, "platform" typically means "getting it to do (commercially?)

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OCTOBER 5, 2022

Since 2015, IHMC has been home to a Boston Dynamics Atlas (the DRC version) as well as a NASA Valkyrie , and significant progress has been made on advancing these platforms toward reliable mobility and manipulation. Carbon fiber shells covering most of the robot allows for safe contact with the environment. After 16 (!)

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

A one year update of our ongoing project with Ontario Power Generation (OPG) and RMUS Canada to investigate the capabilities of Boston Dynamics’ Spot robot for autonomous inspection and first response in the power sector. Contoro ] Thanks, Youngmok! UCSD ] Thanks, Liezel! no matter the weather.

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MAY 28, 2024

Developing a general-purpose robot, one that can competently and robustly execute a wide variety of tasks of interest in any home or office environment that humans can, has been perhaps the holy grail of robotics since the inception of the field. This means operating in any possible home, factory, or office building it might find itself in.

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