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Brain-Inspired Computer Approaches Brain-Like Size

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Today Dresden, Germany-based startup SpiNNcloud Systems announced that their hybrid supercomputing platform, the SpiNNcloud Platform, is available for sale. Hector Gonzalez, SpiNNcloud Systems SpiNNcloud Systems was founded in 2021 as a spinoff of the Dresden University of Technology. This enables energy proportional operation.

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Why Haven't Hoverbikes Taken Off?

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“it’s gonna happen, but I don’t I don’t know if it’ll happen in your lifetime and mine,” says Ron Barrett-Gonzalez , an aerospace engineering professor at the University of Kansas. Assessing Hoverbikes’ Risks Safety concerns are just as big a hurdle to making hoverbikes available for sale. million machine.

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Video Friday: Robot Arms for the ISS

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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. Unlike Sox, our robot dogs are real and for sale! Team NimbRo from University of Bonn, Germany came in first with 22 points, Team HERoEHS from Korea came in second with 5.5

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Video Friday: Guitar Bot

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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 !): TU Berlin ] Cassie Blue navigates around furniture treated as obstacles in the Ford Robotics Building at the University of Michigan. Michigan Robotics ] Thanks, Bruce!

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The Do-or-Die Moments That Determined the Fate of the Internet

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Indeed, hyped-up product announcements at industry events like the Consumer Electronics Show (now CES ) and the Game Developers Conference have become regular features of the digital world. There’s also a parallel tradition—less flashy but no less important—of industry events that focus attention on digital infrastructure.

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Nissan Leases First Fuel Cell Vehicle in North America

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The X-TRAIL FCV is being used by the bottler for sales calls and public events in the Sacramento area in promotion of its Coca-Cola Zero soft drink. The new lab will support other global Nissan research centers and will work with suppliers and universities on various related fuel cell projects. Earlier post.)

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Mini E Makes LA Debut

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BMW’s just held an event for the lessees of their Mini E at the Science Center, next to the University of Southern California, a really stellar venue when you consider the product they were showing. I heard today that they expect to have 5,000 Nissan EVs for sale by the end of 2010.

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