Cars That Think
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
In 2002, iRobot , a company that I cofounded, introduced the first mass-market autonomous home-cleaning robot, the Roomba, at a price that severely constricted how much AI we could endow it with. The limited AI wasn't a problem, though. Our worst failure scenarios had the Roomba missing a patch of floor and failing to pick up a dustball.
Cars That Think
JUNE 29, 2022
The second instrument was a highly experimental Multispectral Scanner System (MSS) designed by Virginia T. The MSS, though, operated until 6 January 1978, outliving its design life by four and a half years and recording more than 300,000 images. Everyone assumed the camera would be the workhorse of the mission.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 30, 2009
How did the high fuel prices impact customer behavior in 2008? A $1 change in gas prices can lead to a 4-6% shift in take rates (i.e. Alexander Edwards, President, Automotive Strategic Vision believes the exodus from full size SUVs was caused by economic caution as much as higher gas prices. The cells make up the remainder.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 14, 2011
aircraft over Afghanistan, 8 Dec 2010. The US Department of Defense (DOD) has released a new operational energy strategy designed to transform the way it consumes energy in military operations, and said this strategy is consistent with efforts to adapt the forces to emerging threats. billion, a 255% increase over 1997 prices.
Cars That Think
AUGUST 21, 2022
And yet who better to design the next great leap in technology than men remade by technology themselves? 60,000 amputations were performed) inaugurated the modern prosthetics era in the United States, thanks to federal funding and a wave of design patents filed by entrepreneurial prosthetists. As Verne understood, the U.S.
Cars That Think
MAY 17, 2023
But for the most part, the price is right: China’s DJI Mavic 3 , used by both Russia and Ukraine for surveillance and for delivering bombs, goes for around $2,000. You can get 55,000 of them for the price of a single F-35. It gives a lot of bang for the buck, as utterly new weapons often do. Reaper, which it broadly resembles.
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