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JPL ] Cassie Blue showcases its ability to navigate a moving walkway, a common yet challenging scenario in human environments. It can be also steered to navigate through a cluttered environment with obstacles. KIMLAB ] Humanoid robots have the potential of becoming general purpose robots augmenting the human workforce in industries.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In a new study, engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder debuted mCLARI, a 2-centimeter-long modular robot that can passively change its shape to squeeze through narrow gaps in multiple directions. Queens University ] Thanks Josh! Adaptable to all terrains, large load, long-lasting endurance, and super athletic performance!

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Since its launch in 2011, CSRC has collaborated with leading North American universities, hospitals, and research institutions on projects aimed at reducing traffic casualties, and sharing the results publicly so that all can benefit. Another, with MIT, modelled in-vehicle voice command systems and driver behavior. —Chuck Gulash.

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JUNE 28, 2023

CRAWFORD EMPLOYER Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. TITLE ‘Professor of civil engineering, agronomy, and electrical and computer engineering MEMBER GRADE Fellow ALMA MATERS University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Ohio State University, Columbus But her engineering path eventually led her back to agriculture.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2018

The selected projects vary in levels of maturity and industry-readiness—from concept definition (focused on specific experimental proof or detailed analysis) to proof-of-concept (requiring physical experimental validation). Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. Colorado State University. Iowa State University.

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JUNE 10, 2022

What skills from the animal world can be used for industrial applications? In association with universities, institutes and development companies, we are developing research platforms whose basic technical principles are based on nature. The video is recorded in Perugia Italy. [ RSL ] ICRA 2023 is in London!

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An international team of researchers, led by the University of Cambridge, has estimated that photosynthetic marine cyanobacteria annually produce hundreds of millions of tonnes of hydrocarbons in the oceans. Oil spills cause widespread damage, but some parts of the marine environment recover faster than others. —Lea-Smith et al.

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JUNE 24, 2013

The Obama Administration and academic and industry partners announced a series of commitments in support of the Materials Genome Initiative (MGI, earlier post ), a public-private endeavor that aims to cut in half the time it takes to develop novel materials that can fuel advanced manufacturing.

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JULY 9, 2022

Fuzzy theory is wrong, wrong, and pernicious,” said William Kahan, a highly regarded professor of computer sciences and mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley in 1975. Kalman in 1972, who is now a professor at Florida State University in Tallahassee. The denunciations were sometimes extreme. But Zadeh never wavered.

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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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FEBRUARY 19, 2016

The findings suggest that industry could modify the gut fungi so that they produce improved enzymes that will outperform the best available ones, potentially leading to cheaper biofuels and bio-based products. Lignocellulosic biomass from plant matter is an abundant, renewable starting material for biofuel and industrial chemical production.

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The project includes genetic modifications of bacteria that metabolize carbon dioxide, oxygen, and hydrogen to produce butanol; development of an industrially scalable bioreactor system; and a novel approach to recovery of butanol from the bioreactor. NC State University. Medical University of South Carolina. Harvard, Univ.

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MARCH 27, 2022

million microfilmed pages back to the United States, along with almost 200 tonnes of German industrial equipment. As a result, the 1950s and ’60s saw a renaissance for magnetic amplifiers, during which they were used extensively in the military, aerospace, and other industries. Universal Images Group/Getty Images.

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Now, two new separate studies report progress on each of those fronts; the findings could have a significant impact on industrial biofuel production. Large concentrations of ethanol can be toxic to yeast, which has limited the production capacity of many yeast strains used in industry. Ethanol tolerance. —Gregory Stephanopoulos.

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The discovery came when MIT researchers Byoungwoo Kang and Gerbrand Ceder found out how to get a common lithium compound to release and take up lithium ions in a matter of seconds. According to Peter Bruce, a chemist at the University of St Andrews, UK, “As far as I know, this is the fastest yet for this material.&# About Gas 2.0

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MAY 17, 2024

However, these robots must perform their tasks dexterously and safely in shared human environments, especially when handling dangerous tools such as kitchen knives. The system is evaluated in an active outdoor three-phase powerline environment. This study focuses on enabling a robot to autonomously and safely learn food-cutting tasks.

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MARCH 11, 2023

In 1997, Willett Kempton , a professor at the University of Delaware, and Steve Letendre , a professor at Green Mountain College, in Vermont, began publishing a series of journal articles that imagined the bidirectional EV as a resource for electricity utilities. And the auto industry had just canceled the battery EV.

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The selected projects—spanning 22 states and coordinated at universities, national laboratories, and private companies—will advance technologies for a wide range of areas, including electric vehicles, offshore wind, storage and nuclear recycling. Cornell University. Stanford University. Argonne National Laboratory.

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OCTOBER 3, 2023

Foundation for Skydio’s drones can be traced back to Adam’s work on autonomous agile drones at MIT , and after spending a few years at Google working on Project Wing’s delivery drones , Adam cofounded Skydio in 2014. Davide Scaramuzza directs the Robotics and Perception group at the University of Zürich.

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the session counted among its panelists: Professor John Heywood, Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Sloan Auto Laboratory at MIT. Professor Robert Cervero, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California-Berkeley. Professor Sebastian Thrun, Stanford University. Earlier post.)].

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Connected vehicle mobility applications provide a connected, data-rich travel environment. GHz frequency band reserved using the Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments (WAVE) protocols defined in the IEEE 1609 standard and its subsidiary parts. In general the passenger vehicle industry is also exceedingly cost conscious.As

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In 1965, Larry Roberts, then at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory , connected one computer in Massachusetts to another in California over a telephone line. Meanwhile, over at BBN, Kahn intended to spend a couple of years in industry so he could return to academia with some real-world experience and ideas for future research. “I 1962 and Ph.D.

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In structured environments like factories, this works well enough. RoMan, along with many other robots including home vacuums , drones, and autonomous cars, handles the challenges of semistructured environments through artificial neural networks—a computing approach that loosely mimics the structure of neurons in biological brains.

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ExxonMobil and Princeton University announced the selection of five research projects associated with their partnership focused on energy technologies. E-ffiliates promotes collaboration between industry and academia to search for energy and environmental breakthroughs. 78 and William H.

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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. Agilicious is completely open-source and open hardware and supports both model-based and neural-network-based controllers!

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It's been a hectic couple of days, so here are some retired industrial robots quietly drawing lines in sand. Constant Gardener ] via [ RobotStart ] Engineers at MIT and Shanghai Jiao Tong University have designed a soft, lightweight, and potentially low-cost neuroprosthetic hand. ANYbotics ] Thanks Cheila! ElliQ ].

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AUGUST 20, 2021

It's been a hectic couple of days, so here are some retired industrial robots quietly drawing lines in sand. Constant Gardener ] via [ RobotStart ] Engineers at MIT and Shanghai Jiao Tong University have designed a soft, lightweight, and potentially low-cost neuroprosthetic hand. ANYbotics ] Thanks Cheila! ElliQ ].

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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. The two were disciples of J.C.R.

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Sanctuary ] Ayato Kanada, an assistant professor at Kyushu University in Japan, wrote in to share "the world's simplest omnidirectional mobile robot." With collision resilience and re-orientation ability, the tensegrity aerial vehicles can operate in cluttered environments without complex collision-avoidance strategies.

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JANUARY 6, 2023

Picking a single item from a jumble of items can be tricky for robots (especially when the number of different items may be in the millions) and while the problem’s not certainly not solved, in a well-structured and optimized environment robots are nevertheless still getting pretty good at this kind of thing.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Cellular standards are developed and overseen by a global cellular industry consortium, the. Past wireless generations coalesced around universally agreed-upon standards relatively smoothly. 5G and its predecessors have been successful because they've been universally implemented. 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP).

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Structured VLSI design, now taught in more than 100 universities. When the center opened in 1970, it was unlike other major industrial research laboratories; its work wasn’t tied, even loosely, to its corporate parent’s current product lines. Colorful weather maps on TV news programs. Laser printers. Pake, a longtime friend, to run it.

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APRIL 29, 2022

Quantum technology relies on quantum effects that can arise because the universe can become a fuzzy place at its very smallest levels. However, whereas quantum computers strive to overcome this weakness , quantum sensors capitalize on this vulnerability to achieve extraordinary sensitivity to the slightest disturbances to the environment.

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OCTOBER 1, 2021

MIT ] Among the first electronic mobile robots were the experimental machines of neuroscientist W. ARPL NYU ] Human environments are filled with large open spaces that are separated by structures like walls, facades, glass windows, etc. Grey Walter. Kodiak ] Thanks Kylee!

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DECEMBER 29, 2023

The only problem is—that stride is a bit less impressive than the telecom industry may have hoped for. How 5G’s sluggish start impacts the research directions that the industry prioritizes for 6G and beyond. NASA’s Laser Link Boasts Record-Breaking 200-Gb/s Speed MIT Lincoln Laboratory Everyone loves a good speed record.

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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. While lidar manufacturers have made progress, the industry isn’t there just yet.

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Shuguang Zhang, associate director of MIT’s Center for Biomedical Engineering, and postdocs Iftach Yacoby and Sergii Pochekailov, together with colleagues at Tel Aviv University in Israel and the in Colorado, have found a way to use bioengineered proteins to flip this preference, allowing more hydrogen to be produced.

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