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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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Video Friday: FridgeBot

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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 !): MIT CSAIL ] NASA is sending a couple of robots to Venus in 2029! Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics.

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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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The Next Generation of AI-Enabled Cars Will Understand You

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Most of these systems use a camera mounted on the steering wheel, tracking the driver's eye movements and blink rates to determine whether the person is impaired—perhaps distracted, drowsy, or drunk. The AI focuses on the face of the person behind the wheel and informs the algorithm that estimates driver distraction.

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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. But there are also companies that try to either create persons out of data, so to speak, or there are companies that replicate a living person who has died. Are they people?

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The Next Generation of AI-Enabled Cars Will Really Understand You

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Most of these systems use a camera mounted on the steering wheel, tracking the driver's eye movements and blink rates to determine whether the person is impaired—perhaps distracted, drowsy, or drunk. The AI focuses on the face of the person behind the wheel and informs the algorithm that estimates driver distraction.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

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Best known as a robotics researcher, academic, and entrepreneur, Brooks is also an authority on AI: he directed the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT until 2007, and held faculty positions at Carnegie Mellon and Stanford before that. Or, how far can a person throw a Frisbee? And we’re really good at that.

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