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IEEE’s Honor Society Gave This Boston University Student Tools to Succeed

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As a member of the Kappa Sigma chapter at Boston University , he learned leadership and communications skills while accepting different roles. Greene was a guest lecturer for an introduction to engineering course at the Wentworth Institute of Technology , also in Boston. “If My vote counted just the same as theirs. “I

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Making Boston Dynamics’ Robots Dance

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Chatbot Episode 1: Making Boston Dynamics’ Robots Dance Evan Ackerman: I’m Evan Ackerman, and welcome to ChatBot, a robotics podcast from IEEE Spectrum. Monica has worked with Boston Dynamics to choreograph some of their robot videos in which Atlas , Spot , and even Handle dance to songs like Do You Love Me? Monica Thomas: Yeah.

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Q&A: Marc Raibert on the Boston Dynamics AI Institute

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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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Video Friday: Monocycle Robot With Legs

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Notable that Boston Dynamics is now saying that Atlas “gets ready for real work.” Boston Dynamics ] You deserve to be free from endless chores! Iruyo was born out of the voices of mothers and fathers who said, “I can’t hold my baby while driving alone.” [ Nissan ] Building 937 houses the coolest robots at CERN.

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IEEE’s Honor Society Expands to More Countries

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There are now more than 270 IEEE-HKN chapters at universities around the world. There are now 30 chapters outside the United States, including ones recently established at universities in Ecuador, Hungary, and India. In October the Nu Theta chapter debuted at Purdue University Northwest in Hammond, Ind.

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Video Friday: Co-Expression

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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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Video Friday: Googly Eye

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CHI 2023 ] This video captures a series of experiments carried out at West Virginia University on how to rescue a stuck planetary rover with another rover. Boston Dynamics ] What can robots actually do.today? Boston Dynamics ] What can robots actually do.today? Can they help the average person beat a high jumper?