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Making Boston Dynamics’ Robots Dance

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Chatbot Episode 1: Making Boston Dynamics’ Robots Dance Evan Ackerman: I’m Evan Ackerman, and welcome to ChatBot, a robotics podcast from IEEE Spectrum. Monica has worked with Boston Dynamics to choreograph some of their robot videos in which Atlas , Spot , and even Handle dance to songs like Do You Love Me? Monica Thomas: Yeah.

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Chatbot: A New Robotics Podcast from IEEE Spectrum

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Spotify ↗ • Apple Podcasts ↗ • Google Podcasts ↗ • Amazon Music ↗ • Pocket Casts ↗ • Podcast Addict ↗ • Deezer ↗ • Player FM ↗ • Podchaser ↗ • Listen Notes ↗ • YouTube ↗ • RSS Feed ↗ The way the Chatbot podcast works is that we invite a couple of robotics experts to talk with each other about a topic that they have in common. .

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IEEE’s Honor Society Expands to More Countries

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The IEEE–Eta Kappa Nu honor society for engineers celebrates its 120th anniversary this year. Among them are 23 former IEEE presidents as well as a who’s who of engineering leaders and technology pioneers including GM Chief Executive Mary Barra , Google founding CEO Larry Page , and Advanced Micro Devices CEO Lisa Su.

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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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Kawasaki’s Robot Ibex: Can It Be Tamed?

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The conversation was conducted in Japanese. What follows (in italics) are Google Translate's best attempts at rendering Soube's observations into workable English: Through the development of Kaleido, we felt the difficulty of biped robots. It would take a lot of work, but boy do I hope so.

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

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High-fidelity ignition models to boost engine thermal efficiency, $720,000 Convergent Science Inc., Novel chemical looping process for conversion of natural gas to pure hydrogen, $150,000 CanmetENERGY, Ottawa, Canada Glowink Inc., Arlington, Texas Environmental Insights Explorer for Buildings, $750,000 Google, Mountian View, Calif.