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ASX and Spirit AeroSystems partner to develop affordable eVTOL aircraft for mass production

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Airspace Experience Technologies ( ASX ), an aviation technology start-up, and Spirit AeroSystems, a global aircraft design and manufacturing company, have signed a memorandum of understanding and a definitive agreement to cooperate on creation of affordable, certified all-electric, vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft.

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Next Fuel, Inc. signs definitive agreement to field test coal-to-gas technology in China; Chinese partner makes strategic investment

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The company also announced that persons affiliated with Future Fuel made the second part of a $2-million strategic investment in Next Fuel and now own 1 million shares of common stock, which exceeds 10% of Next Fuel’s outstanding shares, and a representative of the investor group joined the Board of Directors. Next Fuel, Inc.,

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NVIDIA showcases DRIVE Localization platform; localizing AVs within centimeters to HD maps worldwide

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At CES 2019 last week, NVIDIA showcased DRIVE Localization—an open, scalable platform for vehicles to position themselves on high-definition maps with unprecedented robustness and accuracy, using mass-market sensors. By leveraging mass-market sensors the platform is cost effective, enabling use in personal cars.

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Robert Bosch Venture Capital invests in DeepMap; HD mapping for autonomous vehicles with centimeter-level real-time localization

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This strategy enables them to take a more scalable, low-cost approach to HD map making. High Definition (HD) maps are complete and accurate volumetric reconstructions of a 3D environment and provide a critical set of “pre-information” to autonomous vehicles. In the self-driving era, a map is no longer “just a map”.

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

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Everyday Robots 0:26 — Saying that the robot is low cost is meaningless without telling us how much it costs. Seriously: "low cost" for a mobile manipulator like this could easily be (and almost certainly is) several tens of thousands of dollars at the very least. A robot that learns.

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That Awesome Robot Demo Could Have a Human in the Loop

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Personally, I think a robot demonstrating human-level performance at just about any complex task is too impressive. Some autonomous robots definitely have reached that benchmark, but not many, and the circumstances of them doing so are usually atypical. But when does impressive become too impressive?

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X PRIZE Foundation Aims to Launch $100M in Prizes Over Next 10 Years, Targeting 4 Key Areas

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X PRIZE’s Energy & Environment Prize Group intends to catalyze a new era of clean, renewable, cost-effective energy with minimal impact on the climate and environment. The competition goal is to develop low-cost methods of robotic space exploration, thereby opening access to the moon and its valuable resources.

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