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Tesla’s $25,000 car to be built at Giga Texas, then Giga Mexico: Elon Musk

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk has shared some new details about the automaker’s plans for its next-generation, $25,000 electric vehicle (EV), including that it will be built first in Austin, Texas. On Tuesday, longtime auto industry veteran Sandy Munro shared a new interview with Musk, held following the Cybertruck delivery event.

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Tesla’s 3rd location for next-gen EV production to be named end of 2024-early 2025

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During Tesla’s 2022 Investor Day event, the company stated that the next-generation vehicle would utilize an “Unboxed Process” that should make it significantly more efficient to build. “The first manufacturing location for this will be at our Gigafactory and headquarters in Austin, Texas.

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Video Friday: Good Behaviors

Cars That Think

We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. TRI ] A low-cost robot does extreme parkour including high jumps on obstacles 2x its height, long jumps across gaps 2x its length, handstand on stairs, and running across tilted ramps. [

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Video Friday: Modular Polygons

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We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. The Mori3 is a modular robot built by the Reconfigurable Robotics Lab at EPFL.

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Sustainable Weather Balloon Wins Student a $10,000 Scholarship

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Lynn Bowlby She discovered that a spike in the EEG data, a P300 signal, occurs in reaction to an event. Detecting Leukemia Adelle Jia Xin Yong, a junior at Westlake High School in Austin, Texas, was awarded third place for her Smart Leukemia Labs project. Yong’s diagnostic tool is targeted at those living in underserved regions.

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Coulomb, MasterCard, and the future of public charging

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The big takeaway: If you want a free charge station and are located in a program area (Austin, Los Angeles, New York, Orlando, Sacramento, San Jose/San Francisco Bay Area, Bellevue/Redmond, Washington DC, Southern Michigan), raise your hand now. As Richard Lowenthal said to me at the event: "Great deal!" But for whom?

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Video Friday: Strandbeest

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We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Paper ] A low-cost robot does extreme parkour including high jumps on obstacles 2x its height, long jumps across gaps 2x its length, handstand on stairs, and running across tilted ramps.

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