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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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OCTOBER 17, 2023

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

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The Robot is based on Boston Dynamics’ quadruped robot, Spot, with applied artificial intelligence (AI), autonomous navigation, teleoperation technologies, and computing payload (AI Processing Service Unit) developed by the Group’s Robotics Lab for the Robot’s usage in various industrial tasks.

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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 17, 2010

NASA has selected selected Boston-Power’s Swing battery system ( earlier post ) as a part of Project M—a proposed project to land an operational humanoid robot on the moon in 1,000 days. Boston-Power is delivering a 2.5kWh energy storage system which includes its Swing cells as well as an integrated battery management system.

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OCTOBER 11, 2021

—Philip Landrigan, director of Boston College’s Global Observatory on Pollution and Health. Air pollution was responsible for 1.1 Deaths attributable to household air pollution and ambient particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) air pollution in Ethiopia, Ghana, Rwanda, and overall in Africa, 1990–2019. billion in 2020 to 4.3 billion by 2100.

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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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MARCH 15, 2024

Robot built by Boston Dynamics for the DARPA Robotics Challenge in 2013. MIT ] Video of Boston Dynamics’ Stretch from MODEX, with a little sneak peak at the end of what the robot’s next warehouse task might be. Boston Dynamics ] Pickle Robots autonomously unload trucks and import containers.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Robot built by Boston Dynamics for the DARPA Robotics Challenge in 2013. Boston Dynamics ] This is pretty cool: BruBotics is testing their self-healing robotics gripper technology on commercial grippers from Festo. Boston Dynamics ] Software by IHMC Robotics. Paper ] via [ BruBotics ] Thanks, Bram!

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JANUARY 8, 2019

The award furthers MBTA efforts to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions while establishing safe and reliable transportation for the greater Boston area. MBTA is the public agency responsible for operating most public transportation services in Greater Boston, Massachusetts. The Xcelsior CHARGE buses offer a total capacity of 120-passengers.

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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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DECEMBER 27, 2020

billion (US) in economic losses, according to a new study led by researchers from the Global Observatory on Pollution and Health at Boston College, the Indian Council of Medical Research, and the Public Health Foundation of India. —lead researcher Boston College Professor of Biology Philip J. Air pollution in India resulted 1.67

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NOVEMBER 13, 2024

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. His chief concern was running out of coal, gas, and oil, not their negative impacts on the environment. In all, more than 5,100 members attended.

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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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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 22, 2011

BMW of North America and Coulomb Technologies announced that drivers of the BMW ActiveE all-electric vehicle ( earlier post ) will be able to take advantage of the expansion of the ChargePoint Network into the Boston Metro area. The charging stations will be located in the Boston metropolitan area, primarily within the Route 495 Beltway.

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DECEMBER 15, 2023

And here’s a second video with more technical detail on how the robot works: [ CMU ] Happy Holiday from Boston Dynamics! Boston Dynamics ] Is there a world where Digit can leverage a large language model (LLM) to expand its capabilities and better adapt to our world? This was just presented at the IEEE Humanoids Conference in Austin.

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AUGUST 12, 2022

Last week, the Environment Council of Rhode Island (ECRI) hosted a forum for candidates running RI Governor to discuss their plans for the environment if elected. The forum covered several of Rhode Island’s most pressing environmental issues, including environmental justice and implementation of the Act On Climate.

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MAY 10, 2021

The researchers examined the relationship between exposures to fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) and black carbon, a component of PM, and cognitive performance in 954 older white males from the Greater Boston Area enrolled in the Normative Aging Study. Air pollution levels were obtained from a site in Boston. Elevated average PM2.5

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NOVEMBER 23, 2019

Data compiled by Euromonitor for European research and campaign group Transport & Environment (T&E) shows a surge in the number of Uber drivers (officially registered as private hire vehicles - PHV) in the past few years. Evolution of taxi drivers, PHV drivers (England), and Uber drivers (London) compared to taxi and PHV CO 2 emissions (UK).

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JUNE 28, 2022

As noted by Uber in a recent press release , drivers in 30+ cities such as Los Angeles, Houston, Boston, Chicago, Atlanta, and Miami are able to rent a Tesla through its partnership with Hertz. This included Manuel Barros of Boston, a driver with 31 years of experience behind the wheel.

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MARCH 24, 2023

GITAI conducted a demonstration of lunar base construction using two GITAI inchworm-type robotic arms and two GITAI Lunar Robotic Rovers in a simulated lunar environment and successfully completed all planned tasks. Meet Fifi, a software engineering team lead at Boston Dynamics. Please send us your events for inclusion.

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JANUARY 5, 2021

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. Moreover, the Group will accelerate the creation of a hydrogen energy ecosystem.

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JUNE 19, 2024

To help bring the climate collection to more students, TryEngineering has partnered with the Museum of Science in Boston. The video explains the impact of pollutants such as lead and ash, and it adds that “when we work together, we can change the global environment.”

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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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JANUARY 20, 2023

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

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MARCH 31, 2023

Boston Dynamics ] Thanks, Renee! Boston Dynamics ] KAIST has developed a quadrupedal robot locomotion technology that moves up and down stairs without the aid of visual or tactile sensors in a disaster situation where it is impossible to see due to smoke and moves without falling over bumpy environments such as tree roots.

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MARCH 22, 2024

Paul Domanico, Robotics Engineer at Boston Dynamics talks through how Spot’s hybrid approach of combining reinforcement learning with model predictive control creates an even more stable robot in the most antagonistic environments. Boston Dynamics ] We’re excited to share our latest progress on teaching EVEs general-purpose skills.

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MAY 31, 2014

The five safety recommendations, all addressed to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), are derived from the ongoing investigation of the 7 January 2013, fire event that occurred in a lithium-ion battery on a Boeing 787 that was parked at Boston Logan Airport. Earlier post.).

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MARCH 13, 2019

CCI is a statewide initiative that puts billions of Cap-and-Trade dollars to work reducing greenhouse gas emissions, strengthening the economy, and improving public health and the environment, particularly in disadvantaged communities, low-income communities, and low-income households.

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OCTOBER 4, 2023

Episode 1: Making Boston Dynamics' Robots Dance A new podcast from IEEE Spectrum, where award-winning robotics reporter and editor Evan Ackerman pairs up leading experts to pose the kind of questions no-one can ask.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Boston Dynamics ] What do the robots do on Halloween after everyone leaves? Current robotic systems focus on avoiding unexpected contact, often relying on strategically placed environment sensors. Discover how we put our expertise in robotics research to use designing, testing, and deploying a warehouse robot. Happy Halloween!

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Boston Dynamics ] Digit's engineered to be a multipurpose machine. Meaning, it needs to be able to perform a collection of tasks in practically any environment. Then we help the robot perceive its surroundings, understand its surroundings, then reason a best course of action to navigate its environment and accomplish its task.

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OCTOBER 20, 2023

For the purposes of this test, we force Digit to fall in a controlled environment to demonstrate our new self-righting and recovering ability. Boston Dynamics ] The moral of this video is to always give your robots a gentle pat on the sensors when they do a good job at a challenging task.

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MAY 15, 2018

Researchers examined 1,293 mothers and their children who were part of the large, ongoing Boston Birth Cohort study. in the environment. High blood pressure during childhood often leads to high blood pressure in adulthood and hypertension is the leading cause of cardiovascular disease. —Noel T. Mueller, Ph.D.,

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FEBRUARY 23, 2024

In order to interact with and manipulate their environments, most legged robots are equipped with a dedicated robot arm, which means additional mass and mechanical complexity compared to standard legged robots. Robot built by Boston Dynamics for the DARPA Robotics Challenge in 2013. Software by IHMC Robotics. Onkalo ] And now, this.

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OCTOBER 25, 2024

Now head of the DevTech research group at Boston College , she continues to design learning technologies that promote computational thinking and cultivate a culture of engineering in kids. So you need open-ended environments that allow children to explore and express themselves.

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