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Ford, MIT project uses LiDAR, cameras to measure pedestrian traffic & predict demand for new, on-demand electric shuttles

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Ford Motor Company and MIT are collaborating on a new research project that measures how pedestrians move in urban areas to improve certain public transportation services, such as ride-hailing and point-to-point shuttles services. —Ken Washington, vice president of Research and Advanced Engineering at Ford.

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Magna to showcase its electrification and autonomy solutions at CES 2018

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In addition, the company will showcase its latest electrification technology through its e1 demonstration concept vehicle. The company has already partnered with universities (including MIT, Stanford, etc.), Magna also comes to CES ready to vet new partners.

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Pneumatic Actuators Give Robot Cheetah-Like Acceleration

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Electric motors have helped bring legged robots into the mainstream, offering a straightforward and compact way of controlling robotic limbs with all the fancy control features you need for safe and nimble motion. But to make a robot run like a cheetah, it turns out that complicated control may not even be necessary.

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Stretchable Batteries Make Flexible Electronics More So

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Researchers believe the concept will become more valuable in the next decade, as electronic devices migrate closer and closer to human skin. We stretched the battery, twisted it, hit it with a hammer, and still we showed that it could consistently power a servo motor under all of those deformations.”

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New self-propelled robotic device pinpoints leaks in pipes more accurately than existing methods

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Researchers at MIT and King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) in Saudi Arabia have devised a robotic system that can detect leaks in gas, oil and water pipelines at a rapid pace and with high accuracy by sensing a large pressure change at leak locations. Top ]: Solid model side view of Leak Detector. Chatzigeorgiou, D.;

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IEEE Honors Iconic Engineers

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ALLEN MEDAL Sponsor: IBM LYDIA KAVRAKI Rice University Houston “For foundational probabilistic algorithms and randomized search methods that have broad impact in robotic motion planning and computational biology.” IEEE MEDAL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL AND SAFETY TECHNOLOGIES Sponsor: Toyota Motor Corp. IEEE FRANCES E.

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Radar Technology Pioneer Merrill Skolnik Dies at 94

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Skolnik began his career in 1955 at MIT ’s Lincoln Laboratory. While there, he taught a course on radar at Northeastern University , in Boston. He left MIT in 1959 to join Electronic Communications, now part of Raytheon. in engineering from Johns Hopkins University , in Baltimore. Naval Research Laboratory.

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