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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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IEEE’s Honor Society Expands to More Countries

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There are now more than 270 IEEE-HKN chapters at universities around the world. There are now 30 chapters outside the United States, including ones recently established at universities in Ecuador, Hungary, and India. In October the Nu Theta chapter debuted at Purdue University Northwest in Hammond, Ind.

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Lewis H. Latimer: A Life of Lightbulb Moments

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As fate would have it, George was spotted in Boston one day by an acquaintance of the human trafficker who had once held him in bondage. A Black Boston minister paid to free him. Sandford decision , ruled that an enslaved person was not made free by entering a state whose laws forbid slavery.

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What Robotics Experts Think of Tesla’s Optimus Robot

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After a year of speculation based on little more than a person in a robot suit combined with some optimistic assertions made by Tesla CEO Elon Musk , many roboticists tuned in to the event livestream (or attended in person) to see what Tesla’s approach to humanoid robotics would turn out to be. Roboticist, Google Brain.

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

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RelayRides is backed by more than $13 million in venture capital funding from investors including Google Ventures and GM Ventures. Fleura Bardhi (Northeastern University) and Giana M. University) interviewed users of the Zipcar car sharing service and found that. Challenges with access-based consumption. Eckhardt (Suffolk.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

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For her car sharing had subcategories of: Car sharing is expanding our mobility Roundtrip One-Way Personal Vehicle Sharing (which can include fractional ownership models) Then there’s scooter sharing and bike sharing (also with subcategories of public, closed campus and peer-to-peer [P2P]). However, the company pulled the plug on U.S.

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Drones That Can Fly Better Than You Can

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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. Davide Scaramuzza directs the Robotics and Perception group at the University of Zürich.