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Hyundai Motor Group puts Spot to work at Kia’s plant in South Korea

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The Robot is based on Boston Dynamics’ quadruped robot, Spot, with applied artificial intelligence (AI), autonomous navigation, teleoperation technologies, and computing payload (AI Processing Service Unit) developed by the Group’s Robotics Lab for the Robot’s usage in various industrial tasks.

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Spot’s 3.0 Update Adds Increased Autonomy, New Door Tricks

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While Boston Dynamics' Atlas humanoid spends its time learning how to dance and do parkour , the company's Spot quadruped is quietly getting much better at doing useful, valuable tasks in commercial environments. Cloud-compatible: Connect Spot to AWS, Azure, IBM Maximo, and other systems with existing or easy-to-build integrations.

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Apps Put a Psychiatrist in Your Pocket

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Compared to a healthy user [top], a person experiencing symptoms of bipolar disorder [middle] or depression [bottom] may use their phone more than usual and late at night. Calls and texts: The frequency of text messages and phone conversations signifies a person’s social isolation or activity, which indicates a certain mood.

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Virtual Reality Helps Students Improve Their Math Literacy

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VR headsets allow students to immerse themselves in realistic digital environments to learn math and science by solving real-world problems, such as calculating how high a house’s foundation should be raised to offset the risk of flooding. She has first-hand experience in education: She taught math and physics in Boston-area high schools.

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

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They typically connected to it with a teletypewriter, though the most avant-garde users may have employed simple text-only video terminals. The type of computing they envisioned was thoroughly interactive and personal, comprehensively networked, and completely graphical—with high-resolution screens and high-quality print output.

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Your Robotic Avatar Is Almost Ready

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Under some fairly specific constraints, autonomous robots are starting to find a few valuable niches in semistructured environments, like offices and hospitals and warehouses. It’s still an achievement for autonomous robots to merely survive in the real world, which is a long way from any kind of useful generalized autonomy.

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Video Friday: Constant Gardener

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Boston Dynamics ] This video shows the evolution of a dynamic quadruped robot Panther. Paper ] Tin Lun Lam writes, "Recently, we have upgraded FreeBOT (a kind of Freeform Modular Self-reconfigurable Robot) such that they can detect the connection configuration dynamically without using any external sensing system. During my Ph.D.