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Video Friday: Dark Side Spot

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I honestly could not tell you whether this goes against Boston Dynamics' terms of sale or not. KIMLAB ] Today, robots by and large exist in industrial environments, and are painstakingly coded for specific tasks. Google Research ] From a robotics perspective, this is a nifty project, and well executed by Allen Pan.

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Video Friday: PoKeBo Cubes

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According to Google Translate, these PoKeBo Cubes chat amongst themselves to communicate useful information to you. With a strong lineage connected to Carnegie Mellon University, we're proud to maintain a presence in this great city. SRI ] Meet Josh, a mechanical engineer at Boston Dynamics.

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Video Friday: Ingenuity’s 50th Flight

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DARPA’s Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency (RACER) program recently conducted its third experiment to assess the performance of off-road unmanned vehicles. Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. Please send us your events for inclusion.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Remote Area Modular Monitoring for Critical Facilities, $300,000 Embedded Planet, Cleveland, Ohio Simulation Tool for Energy-Efficient Connected and Automated Vehicle Control Development, $600,000 Hyundai America Technical Center, Superior Township, Mich. El Centro, Calif. Idaho National Laboratory. Tesla, Palo Alto, Calif. Petersburg, Fla.

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50 Years Later, We’re Still Living in the Xerox Alto’s World

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I’m using a word processor with the core features and functions of Microsoft Word, Google Docs, or LibreOffice’s Writer, along with an email client that could be mistaken for a simplified version of Apple Mail, Microsoft Outlook, or Mozilla Thunderbird. The many simultaneous users of one such computer shared the system as a common resource.

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Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles

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Neutral richii @ Apr 19th 2009 5:28PM @ everyone, I can see what your trying to say, that without gas powered vehicles that a much larger strain will be put on electrical facilities that also contribute to air pollution and degrade our environment. Merely connecting the cable has to do the work. excluding coal power in china.