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NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Last week, Google or Alphabet or X or whatever you want to call it announced that its Everyday Robots team has grown enough and made enough progress that it's time for it to become its own thing, now called, you guessed it, "Everyday Robots." 1:40 — People really like throwing shade at Boston Dynamics, don't they?

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OCTOBER 4, 2022

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MARCH 9, 2022

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. Could Bex bring us back to the days of Boston Dynamics' BigDog and LS3, where quadrupedal cargo haulers took a run at practicality?

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

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. Then, they gathered the corresponding satellite images from a Google Maps dataset.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2023

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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Electric Auto Association

MAY 3, 2022

Like many of the residents that come to our EV Ride & Drive events or email me for advice on what EV to buy, I appreciate the many advantages EVs have over internal combustion engine-powered ones. We routinely drive to see our daughter in Washington, DC and have driven to Cleveland, Boston, New York and Charleston, SC without concern.

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AUGUST 5, 2022

Amazon clearly needs some help in understanding how to make home robots useful, and iRobot can likely provide some guidance, with its extraordinarily qualified team of highly experienced engineers. Which, to be fair, seems like a heck of a lot of money.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2019

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MARCH 2, 2023

And if anyone is going to take a useful humanoid robot from an engineering concept to commercial reality, these are the folks to do it. It’ll be a new design, with really solid engineering.” Working with DRC Atlas, NASA’s Valkyrie , and most recently Nadia , IHMC has established itself as a leader in robot design and control.

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OCTOBER 3, 2023

Foundation for Skydio’s drones can be traced back to Adam’s work on autonomous agile drones at MIT , and after spending a few years at Google working on Project Wing’s delivery drones , Adam cofounded Skydio in 2014. We also know that Boston Dynamics is actually using only optimal control. So is this actually also what you experience?

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APRIL 16, 2024

Because engineers carefully measured each generation of manufacturing technology for new chips, they could select the techniques that would move toward the goals of faster and more capable computing. Protik Mukhopadhyay, Protecto.ai Protik Mukhopadhyay, Protecto.ai

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MARCH 1, 2023

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. But these engineers and programmers largely shared the same point of view.

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