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Tesla Cybertruck drawing crowds with Boston Marathon display

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A Tesla Cybertruck is now on display outside of a showroom in Boston, Massachusetts, and photos and video footage of the site show that the unique electric vehicle (EV) has been drawing some crowds. The display launched on Sunday and will remain through tomorrow during the Boston Marathon. It’s attracting a decent size crowd.

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Toyota GR86 Blew Engine During Track Day and Was Denied a Warranty Replacement

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The owner, a person named Luke, posted a video to YouTube of the incident, which happened during a high-performance driving day at Palmer Motorsports Park west of Boston. Luke reached out to Toyota and heard the same thing, despite the fact that the automaker holds track driving events for the GR86.&

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Video Friday: GR-1

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We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. While most of them are active in the server room, idle and new assets are stored in the IT warehouse. Naver Labs ] Humans can be so mean. Flexiv ] Interesting HRI with the flashing light on Spot here.

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Video Friday: Preparing for the SubT Final

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We'll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months; here's what we have so far ( send us your events !): Boston Dynamics ] Digit's engineered to be a multipurpose machine. Explorer ] Team CERBERUS is looking good for the SubT Final next week, too.

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Deep Learning Can’t be Trusted Brain Modelling Pioneer Says

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Grossberg—an endowed professor of cognitive and neural systems, and of mathematics and statistics, psychological and brain sciences, and biomedical engineering at Boston University —based ART on his theories about how the brain processes information.

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Video Friday: Tensegrity Wheels

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We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. The robot can also jump onto obstacles up to 300 millimeters high with a bistable mechanism that can gradually store but quickly release energy. GE ] Why not Zoidberg? This becomes impractical.

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Video Friday: ReachBot

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We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Experiments with rock grasping and coordinated locomotion illustrate the advantages of low inertia passive grippers, triggered by impact and using stored mechanical energy for the internal force.

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