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Video Friday: Preparing for the SubT Final

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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 !): Meaning, it needs to be able to perform a collection of tasks in practically any environment. Explorer ] Team CERBERUS is looking good for the SubT Final next week, too.

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Q&A: Inside DARPA’s Subterranean Challenge

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Deep below the Louisville, Ky., DARPA designed the competition to advance practical robotics in extreme conditions, based around three distinct underground environments: human-made tunnels, the urban underground, and natural caves. A series of three preliminary circuit events would give teams experience with each environment.

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PM2.5 pollution linked to blood vessel damage in healthy young non-smoking adults

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lead author, Brigham Young University. These changes could contribute to the pathogenic sequelae of atherogenesis and acute coronary events. co-author, University of Louisville. Arden Pope, Ph.D., Episodic PM 2.5 —Pope et al. —Aruni Bhatnagar, Ph.D.,

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Video Friday: Fluidic Fingers

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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 !): Humanoids 2020 – July 19-21, 2021 – [Online Event]. RO-MAN 2021 – August 8-12, 2021 – [Online Event]. DARPA SubT Finals – September 21-23, 2021 – Louisville, KY, USA.

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LA-based SMLC to lead new DOE Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute; ~$800M for 5 new hub competitions

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At an event in Washington, President Obama announced that the Smart Manufacturing Leadership Coalition (SMLC) will lead the new Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute, in partnership with the Department of Energy. of California (Berkeley, Irvine, Los Angeles); U. of Virginia; Virginia Tech; U. West Virginia U.

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DARPA SubT Finals: Meet the Teams

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This week, we're at the DARPA SubTerranean Challenge Finals in Louisville KY, where more than two dozen Systems Track and Virtual Track teams will compete for millions of dollars in prize money and being able to say "we won a DARPA challenge," which is of course priceless. University of Nevada, Reno. University of California, Berkeley.

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Video Friday: Constant Gardener

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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 !): Constant Gardener ] via [ RobotStart ] Engineers at MIT and Shanghai Jiao Tong University have designed a soft, lightweight, and potentially low-cost neuroprosthetic hand. ElliQ ].