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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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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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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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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 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. CMU RI ].

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JULY 1, 2022

With a strong lineage connected to Carnegie Mellon University, we're proud to maintain a presence in this great city. 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.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. The University of Illinois will conduct research to develop a composite plastic heat exchanger for a low temperature gas streams common in industry. Boston Electrometallurgical Corporation. Colorado State University. Iowa State University. Michigan State University.

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JULY 10, 2019

Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. 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. Pipersville, Pa. Louis , Mo.

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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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AUGUST 20, 2010

CoalTek, teaming with the University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research in Lexington, Ky., Duke University in Durham, N.C., and the University of North Dakota Energy and Environment Research Center in Grand Forks, N.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Blacksburg, Va.)-Partnering

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APRIL 24, 2022

DARPA designed the competition to advance practical robotics in extreme conditions, based around three distinct underground environments: human-made tunnels, the urban underground, and natural caves. A series of three preliminary circuit events would give teams experience with each environment. IEEE Spectrum. Can you talk about that?

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JUNE 24, 2013

The goal of this new center is to create a collaborative environment and concentration of technical capability to accelerate materials discovery and development, provide opportunities to transition new breakthroughs in advanced materials to industry, and offer training opportunities for young scientists and engineers.

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JUNE 13, 2015

Stanford University has launched a new research initiative to study comprehensively the development and use of natural gas. The new program will expand Stanford’s research on energy and the environment by focusing additional resources on the growing importance of natural gas. Earlier post.). Previously the Robert R.

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OCTOBER 3, 2023

Davide Scaramuzza directs the Robotics and Perception group at the University of Zürich. His lab is best known for developing extremely agile drones that can autonomously navigate through complex environments at very high speeds. And so one of the things that we think a lot about in how we build our products—we’re a company.

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MARCH 11, 2023

Early utility companies like Boston Edison and New York Edison organized EV fleets, favoring electric trucks for their comparatively capacious batteries. Like Rippel and Cocconi, Brooks was a Caltech graduate and part of the close-knit community of EV enthusiasts that emerged around the prestigious university. After earning a Ph.D.

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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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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.

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OCTOBER 20, 2022

Most of those components ported quite easily over to the bot’s environment. “Our goal is to build a viable humanoid robot as soon as possible,” Musk explained. If you think about it, we’re moving from a robot on wheels to a robot on legs. Given the task’s intricacy, this is difficult.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2022

I teach technology and information systems courses at Northeastern University in Boston. Together with Ford’s innovative development of the first moving assembly line, this production system cut the time to build a car from 12 hours to about one-and-half hours. Intel also mastered the law of scalability early in their history.

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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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SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

University of Nevada, Reno. University of California, Berkeley. Norwegian University for Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway. California State University Channel Islands. Lulea University of Technology, Sweden. Previously, our team was unique with our Boston Dynamic legged mobility. Team CERBERUS.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

The Department of Energy is working with industry, universities, national laboratories, and other groups to develop technologies capable of harnessing these resources to generate environmentally sustainable, cost-competitive power. DOE Funding: $240,000. Total Project Value: $300,000. Resolute Marine Energy, Inc. DOE Funding: $142,000.

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DECEMBER 19, 2021

Even less is understood about the potential risks to people and the environment—could the particles deplete the ozone layer, for example, or significantly alter the weather? Keith is also the founder of Carbon Engineering, a Canadian firm building a sprawling facility in West Texas that will pull carbon dioxide directly from the air.).

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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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MARCH 10, 2023

Agilicious is a co-designed hardware and software framework tailored to autonomous, agile quadrotor flight, which has been developed and used since 2016 at the Robotics and Perception Group of the University of Zurich. features the Spot robots from Boston Dynamics in relation with human beings. Please send us your events for inclusion.

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MARCH 1, 2023

The people who developed the Alto came to Xerox PARC from universities, industrial labs, and commercial ventures, bringing with them diverse experiences and skills. By the late 1960s, Xerox executives had begun to see information technology make an impact in the office environment. Traditional Yale faculty snobbery.”

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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! UCSD ] Thanks, Liezel! no matter the weather. Zoox ] Thanks, Whitney!

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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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MAY 19, 2024

Nearly every day since she was a child, Alex Leow, a psychiatrist and computer scientist at the University of Illinois Chicago, has played the piano. These apps are “providing a service that doesn’t exist,” says Colin Depp , a clinical psychologist and professor at the University of California, San Diego.

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AUGUST 20, 2023

Most groups developing autonomous vehicles see lidar as a critical part of the sensor suite required for safe operation, because it allows a detailed 3D map of the vehicle’s environment to be constructed with much more fidelity than can be done with cameras. This is the principle behind what are called thermo-optic phase shifters.

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JANUARY 17, 2023

A Boston Consulting Group (BCG) analysis of the European auto industry posits that about 930,000 existing auto manufacturing and supplier jobs will disappear with the introduction of EVS by 2030, but another 895,000 new jobs will be added. A Princeton University study estimates that somewhere between 777,000 to 5.1

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APRIL 21, 2009

Home Page Todays Paper Video Most Popular Times Topics Search All NYTimes.com Energy & Environment World U.S. and Segway Unveil … Something Previous post Report Says Cap-and-Trade Is a Must for Canada’s Economic Survival Next post From War Bonds to Environment Bonds From 1 to 25 of 29 Comments 1 2 Next » 1.

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APRIL 16, 2009

Home Page Todays Paper Video Most Popular Times Topics Search All NYTimes.com Energy & Environment World U.S. Electric cars and a smart electric grid have a bright future, according to panelists at a roundtable discussion on the subject that I attended last Friday in Boston. “I the biggest cuts anywhere in the world.

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