article thumbnail

Video Friday: Ingenuity’s 50th Flight

Cars That Think

JPL ] Georgia Tech researchers have recently created a soft rotary motor using liquid metal, compliant magnetic composites, and silicone polymers. 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.

article thumbnail

DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

Green Car Congress

Advanced Flow Meter for Extreme Environments (AFMEE), $100,000 MicroNuclear LLC, Franklin, Tenn. Arlington, Texas Environmental Insights Explorer for Buildings, $750,000 Google, Mountian View, Calif. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga. El Centro, Calif. Idaho National Laboratory. Louisville, Colo.

article thumbnail

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

Green Car Congress

In addition, the newly announced manufacturing innovation institute topics now under competition include: Robotics in Manufacturing Environments Manufacturing Innovation Institute. Georgia Institute of Technology; Idaho National Laboratory; Jet Propulsion National Laboratory; Lamar U.; Missouri U. Purdue U.

article thumbnail

This Robot Could Be the Key to Helping People With Disabilities

Cars That Think

It was a PR2 , from the robotics company Willow Garage, and Georgia Tech robotics professor Charlie Kemp was demonstrating how the PR2 was able to locate a person and bring them a bottle of medicine. I imagined using it as a way to once again manipulate my physical environment after years of just lying in bed.”

Personal 140
article thumbnail

Building a Zero Trust Security Model for Autonomous Systems

Cars That Think

Trusted execution environments (TEE) were developed to provide a higher level of security for applications by using an encryption perimeter around program execution running on the hardware, but these were built primarily for applications confined within a CPU. Implementing this capability in software adds additional overhead and latency.

Building 126
article thumbnail

IEEE Celebrates Engineering Brilliance

Cars That Think

HAGIT MESSER-YARON Tel Aviv University “For contributions to sensing of the environment using wireless communication networks.” IEEE MILDRED DRESSELHAUS MEDAL Sponsor: Google CLAIRE J. CHAN MIT “For pioneering technical contributions and leadership in the fields of space and terrestrial optical communications and networks.”

Engine 80