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Video Friday: Monocycle Robot With Legs

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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. Unitree ] We present an avatar system designed to facilitate the embodiment of humanoid robots by human operators, validated through iCub3, a humanoid developed at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia.

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Video Friday: Tap Finger, Move Mountain

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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. MIT CSAIL ] If you look in the background of this video, there’s a person wearing an exoskeleton controlling the robot in the foreground. Humanoids 2023 : 12–14 December 2023, AUSTIN, TEX.

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Video Friday: FridgeBot

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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 !): MIT CSAIL ] NASA is sending a couple of robots to Venus in 2029! Two Canadian companies, MDA and Canadensys, have been selected to design lunar rover concepts. [

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Climate Change is NSF Engineering Alliance’s Top Research Priority

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National Science Foundation —holds what are termed visioning events, wherein IEEE members and hundreds of other experts from academia, industry, and nonprofits can conceptualize bold ideas. Reports from recent visioning events are slated to be released to the public in the next few months. “The

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Toyota’s Collaborative Safety Research Center launches 5-year, $35M program on autonomous and connected vehicle technologies

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First announced in 2014, CSRC Next ( earlier post ) will direct $35 million through 2021 towards research designed to support a safe transition to the future of mobility. Another, with MIT, modelled in-vehicle voice command systems and driver behavior. —Chuck Gulash, Director of CSRC.

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The Creepy New Digital Afterlife Industry

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This article is adapted from the author’s new book , We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age (MIT Press, 2023). You decide, after some months of interacting with the 4evru’s version of your father, that while you are somewhat glad to learn who your father truly was, you’re mourning the loss of the person you thought you knew.

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Your Life As A Digital Ghost

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Wong describes the new digital afterlife industry in a chapter of her new book from MIT Press, We the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age. But there are also companies that try to either create persons out of data, so to speak, or there are companies that replicate a living person who has died. Are they people?