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Hyundai Motor Group puts Spot to work at Kia’s plant in South Korea

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Hyundai Motor Group introduced Factory Safety Service Robot, a robot for industrial site safety, and announced its pilot operation at Kia’s plant in South Korea. The Factory Safety Service Robot is the first collaboration project with Boston Dynamics. —Dong Jin Hyun, Head of Hyundai Motor Group Robotics Lab.

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Q&A: Marc Raibert on the Boston Dynamics AI Institute

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Last week, Hyundai Motor Group and Boston Dynamics announced an initial investment of over $400 million to launch the new Boston Dynamics AI Institute. If we can start by looking back a little bit—what kind of company did you want Boston Dynamics to be when you founded it in 1992?

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GM’s Maven car-sharing reaches 1M miles driven in <4 months; Boston, Chicago, and DC joining lineup

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In less than four months, Maven, General Motorspersonal mobility brand ( earlier post ), has grown to five markets: New York City, Ann Arbor, Mich., and is adding Boston, Chicago and Washington, D.C. Maven+ and Maven City are coming to Boston this summer. Maven members have driven more than one million miles.

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Ford confirms construction of Rouge EV center to be home of electric F-150; production by mid-2022

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The electric F-150, which is undergoing tens of thousands of hours of torture testing and targeting millions of simulated, laboratory and real world test miles, will be more powerful than any F-150 available today and deliver commercial and personal customers the lowest expected lifetime total cost of operation among F-Series trucks.

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Boston Dynamics’ Robert Playter on the New Atlas

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Boston Dynamics has just introduced a new Atlas humanoid robot , replacing the legendary hydraulic Atlas and intended to be a commercial product. We talked with Playter about what the heck took Boston Dynamics so long to make this robot, what the vision is for Atlas as a product, all that extreme flexibility, and what comes next.

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GM’s Maven and Uber to pilot flexible car-sharing offer

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Maven, General Motorspersonal mobility brand, and Uber Technologies, Inc., There are no additional fees if a driver utilizes the vehicle for personal use. In nine months, Maven has grown to nine markets: Ann Arbor, Michigan, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C.,

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GM expands Maven carsharing to Denver, LA and San Francisco

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Maven, General Motorspersonal mobility brand, is expanding to the western United States, adding the Denver, Los Angeles and San Francisco markets.