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Video Friday: Lunar Rover

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In December of 2021 at the mock lunar surface environment in JAXA’s Sagamihara Campus, the GITAI lunar robotic rover R1 conducted numerous tasks and mobility operations, successfully completing all planned tests. This is cool looking, but I'd need to know more about how this system can deal with an actual lunar environment, right?

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Video Friday: Ingenuity’s 50th Flight

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DARPA’s Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency (RACER) program recently conducted its third experiment to assess the performance of off-road unmanned vehicles. Naver Labs ] This seminar is from Matt Zucker at Swarthmore College, on “Robotics education and research at a liberal arts college.”

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Video Friday: Humanoid Soccer

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His four-legged and wheeled robot is able to change shape within seconds, overcome steps and navigate between indoor and outdoor environments. This lack of flexibility requires a fleet of diverse drones tailored to specific cargo dimensions. Swiss-Mile ] Thanks, Marko! Utah Engineering ] PLEN is all ready for the world cup.

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DOE to award $11M to 20 new Clean Cities projects for alt fuel cars and trucks

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vehicle implementation; establish a Minnesota green fleet recognition. The California Fleets and Workplace Alternative Fuels Project is a statewide. infrastructure, collaborate with colleges on first responder training, promote workplace EV charging, and work with fleets to implement. the Environment. Project lead.

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Six automated truck platoons to compete in European Truck Platooning Challenge

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Highway Pilot Connect uses this for a constant exchange of information with other trucks and the environment. A similar seminar will be arranged by Volvo Trucks in Brussels. EU Truck Platooning Challenge is an initiative of the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment within the framework of the EU presidency.

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Ford Exec Cites US Energy Policies As Critical Factor in Shaping Future Vehicle Fleet, Calls for Cap-and-Trade Program

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Sue Cischke, Ford group vice president, Sustainability, Environment and Safety Engineering, pointed to the “ key role ” government policies such as fuel standards and greenhouse gas emission regulations, play in the development and support of Ford’s product and technology pathways.

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Video Friday: Drone in a Cage

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This week’s GRASP on Robotics seminar is from Katherine Kuchenbecker at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, on haptics and physical human-robot interaction. “A This Lockheed Martin Robotics Seminar is from Xuesu Xiao from The Everyday Robot Project at X, on Deployable Robots that Learn. Drone Days ].

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