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Video Friday: ICRA Turns 40

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To study the robotic systems and algorithms capable of deforming volumetric objects, we introduce a novel robotics task of continuously deforming clay on a pottery wheel, and we present a baseline approach for tackling such a task by learning from demonstration. By Patrick O’Brien, Jakub F. Kowalewski, Chad C.

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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 participated in several of the society’s student leadership conferences, where he was a presenter and keynote speaker.

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Study suggests global impact of obesity may be extra ~700MT/y CO2eq: about 1.6% of worldwide GHG emissions

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Meeting the needs of the increasing number of people on the planet presents a challenge for reducing total GHG burden. A further challenge may be the size of the average person on the planet and the increasing number of people with excess body weight. —Magkos et al. Swinburn wrote a commentary on the paper.

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Engineering Students Innovate Accessibility Technology

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The competition challenged university students around the world to use their engineering skills to help with accessibility issues. EPICS is a grant-based program for IEEE Educational Activities that funds service learning projects for university and high school students. John McCauley.

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Barrier Breaker Shapes Aerospace Engineering's Future

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Harris, born in 1941 in Richmond, Virginia, grew up during the tumultuous years of the Civil Rights Movement and faced an environment fraught with challenges. Wesley, you will go to the University of Virginia [in Charlottesville],” she proclaimed. He was also the university’s first Black engineering professor. Harris’s Ph.D.

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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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IEEE Offers New Transportation Platform With Advanced Analytics Tools

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Robust analytical tools NTDAS was built in partnership with INRIX , a transportation analytics solutions provider, and the University of Maryland ’s Center for Advanced Transportation Technology Laboratory , a leader in transportation science research. “IEEE is so diverse, and this state-of-the-art platform reflects that.”