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FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The Hki demo due to arrive on the ISS later this year carries a depiction of the story of how the Kkako bird got its blue wattle. So, it took a lot of design work to meet the very stringent stray magnetic field requirements of the ISS. It too is new to the space environment.

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MARCH 7, 2018

The two-stroke OP engine described therein employed currently available engine components, such as supercharger, turbocharger and after-treatment and featured a uniquely designed piston bowl shape to enhance mixing with a swirl-to-tumble conversion as the piston bowls approach minimum volume.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2018

D-Wave Leap Quantum Application Environment. Wave Leap Quantum Application Environment (QAE). In addition to access, Leap provides open-source development tools, interactive demos and coding examples, educational resources, and knowledge base articles.

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OCTOBER 19, 2018

The fields of application are separated into four categories: battery material, battery management and control, design, manufacturing and processing and recycle and regeneration. The selected companies will then be invited to Demo Day in Silicon Valley around February of next year to present their business plans.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Today, GaN transistors are being designed into radar systems, cellular base stations, and power converters such as those found in computer notebook power adaptors. Integration of power switches and their driving circuitry on the same chip is the ultimate approach to minimizing the parasitic inductance.

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JUNE 23, 2014

So far this year, the team has integrated the T2B2 aftertreatment in the dynamometer environment and is in the process of convert the demonstration vehicle to the T2B2 configuration. Cummins made extensive use of aluminium as well as space-saving design features for new engine weight control. Source: Cummins. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 7, 2025

Were designing the worlds most dynamic humanoid robot to do anything and everything, but we get there one step at a time. Our first task is part sequencing, a common logistics task in automotive manufacturing. [ RoMeLa ] at [ University of California Los Angeles ] In this demo, Reachy 2 autonomously sorts healthy and unhealthy foods.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2016

To further advance car-based commerce, Visa is also offering a range of related digital payment solutions, including new standards for Bluetooth (BLE) and QR codes that could help expand enablement of mobile payments for both merchants and consumers in any environment.

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JUNE 29, 2009

The next goal is to refine and capture this knowledge and design and build a 20,000 barrel per day commercial GTL facility and that goal is progressing according to plan.” The increase in exploitable coal possible with UCG may be less when site selection is constrained by geologic and hydrologic criteria to protect the environment.

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OCTOBER 27, 2021

Where autonomous vehicles have had the most success is in environments with a lot of predictability and structure, which is why I really like the idea of autonomous urban boats designed for cities with canals. The public demo in Amsterdam kicks off tomorrow, and by the end of 2021, the hope is to have two boats in the water.

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OCTOBER 12, 2011

Our global demo fleets continue to provide insight into the needs of electric vehicle customers living in urban environments. Introduced during the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, EN-V was designed to address environmental issues and help alleviate traffic congestion, parking, safety concerns and energy consumption.

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JULY 17, 2014

The partners also designed an intuitive HMI concept and an attractive cockpit based on a freely programmable TFT display to make all the relevant information easy to read. To support the development process, the team used advanced co-simulation techniques, including realistic vehicle and environment interaction.

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MARCH 10, 2016

This in turn protects the environment from excess emissions due to engine issues and prevents costly progressive engine damage. The OBD system monitors all emissions impacting components on the vehicle to ensure the vehicle remains below pre-determined emissions thresholds throughout the life of the vehicle.

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APRIL 25, 2012

GE Energy’s WattStation and WattStation Connect are designed to work within the EV ecosystem, smart electronic commerce and monitoring systems, making it energy efficient and providing customers with a no-hassle experience. Smart grid demo. The WattStation can be installed into any commercial, public or retail location.

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JULY 24, 2015

Honda Xcelerator is designed to engage innovators and help them more rapidly commercialize breakthrough technologies. Advanced Technology Demos. The demo uses a virtual reality headset to transport passengers into a virtual world featuring Honda products on the land, sea and air. Earlier post.) Honda Xcelerator.

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JULY 29, 2022

A University of Washington team created a new tool that can design a 3D-printable passive gripper and calculate the best path to pick up an object. An introduction to HEBI's Robotics line of modular mobile bases for confined spaces, dirty environments, and magnetic crawling. Watch until the end for a very impressive catch!

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DECEMBER 15, 2023

Our innovation team developed this interactive demo to show how LLMs could make our robots more versatile and faster to deploy. The demo enables people to talk to Digit in natural language and ask it to do tasks, giving a glimpse at the future. We had the same question. Agility Robotics ] Thanks, Tim! Disney Research ] And now, this.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2013

The demo screen of a research Cadillac ATS equipped with 4G LTE connectivity, first shown at the 2013 Mobile World Congress. Over time, applications of widespread in-vehicle 4G LTE connectivity will enable vehicles to interact directly with their environment to enhance safety, efficiency and convenience for drivers and passengers, GM noted.

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JUNE 14, 2024

Make sure and watch until the end to hear the roboticists in the background react when the demo works in a very roboticist way. We started trials with robots to see how we can adapt our HEAT (Hostile Environment Awareness Training) courses to this new reality. [ clap clap clap:: yaaaaayyyyy. CSD ] Thanks, Ebe!

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APRIL 18, 2025

The XHAND1 features 12 active degrees of freedom, pioneering an industry-first fully direct-drive joint design. Flexiv ] How can we ensure robots using foundation models, such as large language models (LLMs), wont hallucinate when executing tasks in complex, previously unseen environments?

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NOVEMBER 8, 2021

One of the advantages of working in space is that it's a highly structured environment. The biggest difference between experiments on the ground and on the ISS is the microgravity environment, but it was not that difficult to cope with. It looked like the robot was performing many tasks using equipment designed for humans.

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MAY 13, 2009

Demo vehicle moving into position for battery switch. Better Place officially opened the Yokohama, Japan EV exhibit with the public debut of its automated battery switch system, designed to make long distance travel by EV convenient for customers. Click image to see demonstration video.

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DECEMBER 16, 2022

Science Robotics ] The latest in the Zoox testing series, this video showcases how Zoox tests the maneuverability capabilities of its robotaxi, which are critical for operation in dense urban environments. [ Skydio ] Do not underestimate the pleasure of hearing little metal feet climbing up metal walls. Zoox ] Thanks, Whitney! UPenn ].

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AUGUST 2, 2024

Our lightweight, in-house-built robot is designed specifically for learning algorithms with low simulation complexity, anthropomorphic motion, and high reliability against falls. Paper ] In this end-to-end demo, we showcase how MenteeBot transforms the shopping experience for individuals, particularly those using wheelchairs.

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APRIL 20, 2016

Members of AVnu Alliance , the industry consortium driving open, standards-based deterministic networking ( earlier post ), publicly demonstrated interoperability of systems designed to meet the AVnu Automotive Profile at the Automotive Ethernet Congress held in Munich, Germany earlier this year.

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AUGUST 17, 2022

RoboBusiness has been reworked to reveal the most impactful technological advances, identify the most promising opportunities, illustrate the leading business and investment tends, as well as highlight business development initiatives designed to support robotics innovation and sector growth.

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MAY 20, 2022

If you think of the Elios 2 as your classic flip phone, only designed to make phone calls, the Elios 3 is the smartphone. The event will feature live demos including autonomous drone racing.in “The Elios 3 is the single biggest project that Flyability has ever undertaken,” said Adrien Briod, CTO of Flyability. “If Flyability ].

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FEBRUARY 18, 2022

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! We present the design of a robotic leg that can seamlessly switch between a spring-suspended and unsuspended configuration. GRVC ] This finger motion pleases me. Brain Lab ] Thanks, Poramate! CMU RI ].

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DECEMBER 12, 2024

Every time were able to get more information from the environment, the evolutionary force pushes capability and intelligence forward. If you dont sense the environment, your relationship with the world is very passive; whether you eat or become eaten is a very passive act. By allowing machines to perceive more of the environment?

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DECEMBER 7, 2021

Atheia is a mobile app that makes observations about a user’s environment to improve spatial awareness and safety. In addition, the search feature directs users to objects in their environment through haptic feedback and audio instructions. Atheia Demo. The student team’s. THE IMPORTANCE OF FEEDBACK. video the students made.

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MARCH 16, 2023

“The Powerload lineup lends versatility and toughness to any application thanks to the specially designed features and innovative technologies incorporated in the new lineup,” said Loic Ravasio, general manager, Goodyear Global & Americas OTR.“Without Work in new places, in sensitive environments, and even indoors.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Digit has no problem lifting things, walking around, and not mowing over the occasional human, and once that stuff is all sorted, whether the robot is able to effectively work in an environment like this is to some extent reflected in all of these other little human-obvious things that often make the difference between success and failure.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Inspired by the flexibility and resilience of dragonfly wings, we propose a novel design for a biomimetic drone propeller called Tombo propeller. Here, we report on the design and fabrication process of this biomimetic propeller that can accommodate collisions and recover quickly, while maintaining sufficient thrust force to hover and fly.

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MAY 29, 2024

The stand-alone communicator [bottom of illustration] can be ordered assembled, or you can build your own from open-source design files. My original plan was to coerce a couple of my fellow IEEE Spectrum editors to spread out around Manhattan to get a sense of the range of the handhelds in a dense urban environment.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Independently posable chopsticks permit grasping a nearly limitless variety of objects with a straightforward mechanical design. In an uncluttered environment, Dextrous has been able to operate the system at 900 boxes per hour, about twice as fast as the 300 to 500 boxes per hour that a person can handle. We’ve solved that.”

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MARCH 29, 2024

NASA ] In challenging terrains, constructing structures such as antennas and cable-car masts often requires the use of helicopters to transport loads via ropes.Challenging this paradigm, we present Geranos: a specialized multirotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) designed to enhance aerial transportation and assembly. Paper ] Thanks, Kelly!

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Technologies for robots need 10+ years of steady improvement beyond lab demos of the target tasks to mature to low cost and to have their limitations characterized well enough that they can deliver 99.9 The robot has to work with no external intervention from the people who designed and built it. percent of the time. It cleans floors.

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