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DOE announces Apps for Vehicles Challenge Winners

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Green Button Gamer , based in Boston, Massachusetts, won the Safety Innovation award and Augusta, Georgia-based Fuel Economy Coach received the Fuel Efficiency Innovation award. DOE awarded New York City-based Dash the Judges’ Prize and MyCarma , headquartered in Troy, Michigan, the Popular Choice prize.

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MIT, QCRI use AI to enrich digital maps to improve GPS navigation; RoadTagger

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However, creating detailed maps is an expensive, time-consuming process done mostly by big companies, such as Google, which sends vehicles around with cameras strapped to their hoods to capture video and images of an area’s roads. Each tile is a separate graph node, connected by lines along the road.

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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. Researchers and engineers at Google Research and Everyday Robots are working together to combine the best of machine learning language models with helper robots that can complete complex and abstract tasks like ‘cleaning up a spilled drink.’.

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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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MIT Professor’s IoT Sensors Make Roads Safer

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Back in 2005, before smartphones were generally available, MIT Professor Hari Balakrishnan was so fed up with commuting delays in Boston that he built a mobile system to monitor road conditions. Their research won several awards, and the system was covered by The Boston Globe. This was before iPhones , Androids , and Google Maps.”

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GM OnStar and RelayRides introduce peer-to-peer car sharing for GM vehicles

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General Motors’ OnStar subscribers can now rent out their idle vehicles through the RelayRides marketplace, leveraging OnStar connectivity already active in their vehicles ( Earlier post ), and with no need to hand over their keys. connecting to the objects they are accessing, other consumers, or the company.” Click to enlarge.

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Video Friday: Ingenuity’s 50th Flight

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Google AI ] Sanctuary AI is on a mission to create the world’s first human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots that will help us work more safely, efficiently, and sustainably. Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics.