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Tesla Model X involved in horrifying crash, family escapes with minor injuries

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This was proven recently when a family of four survived a horrifying crash near Möhlin in Switzerland with only minor injuries. Picture credit: @Kapo_Aargau Article: [link] pic.twitter.com/t7nPaROgoL — Tesla_Adri (@tesla_adri) October 2, 2022. The incident happened Sunday morning, around 10:45 a.m.

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This Rwandan Engineer is Learning How to Manage Humanitarian Projects

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Thanks to a scholarship from IEEE Smart Village , she is now getting that education through the master’s degree program in development practice from Regis University , in Denver. As a member of the conference’s technical program committee, she helped develop the program and reviewed article submissions.

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Video Friday: Robots With Knives

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They are just a preview of our in-depth ICRA coverage, and over the next several weeks we’ll have lots of articles and videos for you. We hope you’ve been enjoying our short videos on TikTok , YouTube , and Instagram. In today’s edition of Video Friday, we bring you a dozen of the most interesting projects presented at the conference.

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DARPA SubT Finals: Meet the Teams

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For a recent recap, have a look at this post-cave pre-final article that includes an interview with SubT Program Manager Tim Chung , but if you don't have time for that, the TLDR is that this week we're looking at both a Virtual Track as well as a Systems Track with physical robots on a real course. USA, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Norway.

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Video Friday: Autonomous Car Drifting, Aerial-Aquatic Drone, and Jet-Powered Robot

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Goh, Ufuk Topcu, and Avinash Balachandran from University of Texas at Austin, USA, and Toyota Research Institute, Los Altos, Calif., Samuel Au from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, and Multiscale Medical Robotics Centre, Hong Kong. body length per second (BL/s), faster than most reported soft crawlers in mm/s and BL/s.

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Building a Zero Trust Security Model for Autonomous Systems

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This sponsored article is brought to you by Technology Innovation Institute. One of the most promising approaches is CHERI (Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions), which is being explored by DARPA, Google, SRI International, and the University of Cambridge.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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April, 2008 : In an article entitled Dangerous Assumptions ( earlier post ), Roger Pielke, Jr., May, 2009 : Testifying at a public hearing conducted by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Stanford University professor Mark Jacobsen urged the EPA to incorporate black carbon into calculations of greenhouse gases.

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