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A New Olympics Event: Algorithmic Video Surveillance

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This summer, at the Paris Olympic Games, security officials will perform a much bigger experiment in the heart of the City of Light, covering the events, the entire Olympic village, and the connecting roads and rails. This article is part of our special report Top Tech 2024.

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Daimler Trucks’ FUSO introduces eCanter SensorCollect concept refuse truck

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FUSO has organized various workshops and hackathons with Japanese and overseas universities, as well as collaborations with start-ups, where external participants were also invited. Through these events, more than 100 ideas to date have been generated.

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Video Friday: LASSIE On the Moon

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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. ESA ] Cassie is able to walk on sand, gravel, and rocks inside the Robot Playground at the University of Michigan. Aww, they stopped before they got to the fun rocks.

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Video Friday: Baby Clappy

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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. DLR RMC ] DEEP Robotics has signed a strategic agreement with Huzhou Institute of Zhejiang University for cooperating on further research to seek various possibilities in drones and quadruped. Rice ].

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Eindhoven wins world championship for solar-powered family cars in World Solar Challenge

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Eindhoven University of Technology / Bart van Overbeeke. Eindhoven University of Technology / Bart van Overbeeke. Eindhoven University of Technology / Bart van Overbeeke Click to enlarge. The Solar Team Eindhoven’s Stella, the first solar?powered On the road in Australia. Click to enlarge. Fast driving on raceway.

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Video Friday: Robot Training

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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. CMU ] Chengxu Zhou from the University of Leeds writes, “we have recently done a demo with one operator teleoperating two legged manipulator for a bottle opening task.” [ Real Robotics ] Thanks, Chengxu!

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Video Friday: Human to Humanoid

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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. Now, new research from the University of Massachusetts Amherst pushes forward the bounds of stroke recovery with a unique robotic hip exoskeleton, designed as a training tool to improve walking function.