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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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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. Starship ] By blending 2D images with foundation models to build 3D feature fields, a new MIT method helps robots understand and manipulate nearby objects with open-ended language prompts.

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Video Friday: Resilient Bugbots

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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 ] This robot gripper is called DragonClaw, and do you really need to know anything else? With the RPD 35, a two-person crew can install pile more productivity than traditional methods.

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Flexible printed perovskite solar achieves a record 11% efficiency

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The international team, led by the Australian government’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation ( CSIRO ), has developed a new method for producing roll-to-roll flexible printed solar cells that deliver unprecedented levels of efficiency. Printed solar cells are highly efficient, flexible, and decreasing in cost.

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Video Friday: Welcome to 2022

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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 !): John Deere ] I appreciate the idea that this robot seems to have some conception of personal space and will react when that space is rudely violated. Xiaomi ] Thanks, Yangwei! "We

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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. Strickland: So we’re going to dive into the digital afterlife industry in just a moment. Strickland: So how do you define the digital afterlife industry ? Wong: Thanks for having me.

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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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In that period, CSRC has launched and completed 44 research projects with 23 partner universities, publishing more than 200 papers and presenting at multiple industry conferences. Another, with MIT, modelled in-vehicle voice command systems and driver behavior. —Chuck Gulash, Director of CSRC.

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