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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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BMW to partner with Coulomb Technologies in Boston; Coulomb offering new cloud-based service plans, new dual-port charging stations

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BMW of North America and Coulomb Technologies announced that drivers of the BMW ActiveE all-electric vehicle ( earlier post ) will be able to take advantage of the expansion of the ChargePoint Network into the Boston Metro area. The charging stations will be located in the Boston metropolitan area, primarily within the Route 495 Beltway.

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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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Lux Research: “The rush to proclaim driverless cars as the near future for personal transport is, simply, wrong”

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Multiple times, we heard the phrase “But Google says.” While many in the automotive value chain echo the conservative adoption rates from Lux’s studies, there was a vocal contingent, ranging from academics to government organizations, that used Google’s recent announcements as a counter argument.

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Years Later, Alphabet’s Everyday Robots Have Made Some Progress

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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? 2:10 — Yeah, okay.

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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. SRI ] Meet Josh, a mechanical engineer at Boston Dynamics. It can generate motions in rough environments for a variety of different gaits in real time.