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Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, partners demo automated, connected vehicles on I-395

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The Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, the Virginia Department of Transportation, and Transurban, which operates the express lanes, conducted a demonstration of automated, connected vehicles on a 10-mile stretch of I-395 for federal and state officials.

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Video Friday: Robotics After Hours

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Watch this video until the end to see a drone fly a trajectory to end up in a perching pose underneath a demo line and upside-down! Apellix ] NeuroVis is a neural dynamic visualizer that connects to the Robot Operating System (ROS). GRVC ] This finger motion pleases me. Brain Lab ] Thanks, Poramate!

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Generating Power on Earth From the Coldness of Deep Space

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But about a decade ago, our research group at Stanford designed a material that’s remarkably efficient at sending heat out to that reservoir of cold while preventing heating from both the sun and the environment. By connecting a TEG between a hot reservoir and a cold one, the heat differential is captured as electricity.

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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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The ARPANET Is Born Kahn wasn’t the only one thinking about connecting disparate computers in the 1960s. In 1965, Larry Roberts, then at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory , connected one computer in Massachusetts to another in California over a telephone line. The demos, he recalled, ran 24 hours a day for nearly a week. 1962 and Ph.D.

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Chevrolet to produce Spark battery electric vehicle for US and global markets starting in 2013 with A123 Systems pack; EN-V gets a Chevrolet badge

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Our global demo fleets continue to provide insight into the needs of electric vehicle customers living in urban environments. It will also retain its battery electric propulsion, connectivity and autonomous driving capabilities. In April, GM and the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City Investment and Development Co.

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Flight Simulator Gave Birth to 3D Video-Game Graphics

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1984) modeled the entire United States, Microsoft Flight Simulator 3.0 Scot Bayless, the studio manager overseeing the team, says an early demo left Bill Gates stunned. In retrospect, ESP feels like a predecessor to modern efforts to build “digital twins” to simulate and replicate real-world environments.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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The Open Environment and How It Changed PARC started with a small nucleus—perhaps fewer than 20 people. A high-speed network that connects computers, printers, and other peripherals in an office or building. And in the Xerox environment in ’76, all of a sudden you could create things and make lots of them.” Local area network.

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