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Video Friday: DALL-E 2

Cars That Think

OTTO Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) automate common material handling tasks, big and small, to help manufacturers tackle labor shortages, scale their business, and outperform the competition. The kit enables various assemblies to be made with the modular pieces, allowing creators to explore the world of soft robotics in playful ways.

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Volkswagen takes stake in German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI); autonomous driving and the digital factory

Green Car Congress

In a joint project, Volkswagen and DFKI have started further to develop the software framework ROCK (Robotics Construction Kit) to allow direct, close cooperation between human beings and robots. Google Germany GmbH. In addition to research in artificial intelligence, DFKI specializes in the fields of robotics, Industry 4.0 John Deere.

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Are Homemade CPUs Alibaba’s Bid For Independence?

Cars That Think

China is intent on developing semiconductor independence, both in design and manufacture of state-of-the-art chips. The United States, alarmed at China's campaign to bring Taiwan under its control, has also begun an ambitious program to 'reshore' its semiconductor manufacturing after allowing much of it to migrate to Taiwan.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

Later that year, Trek went public on the Singapore stock exchange, and in four months—from April through July 2000—it manufactured and sold more than 100,000 ThumbDrives under its own label. And this incremental nature of innovation means that controlling the spread, manufacturing, and further development of new ideas is almost impossible.

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How to Plan Summer Travel with an EV

Blink Charging

Find EV charging stations along the way The good news is that it should be relatively easy to find charging stations along your route thanks to tools like the Blink Charging Mobile App , PlugShare, Google Maps, and Apple Maps which show you available chargers in the area you specify.

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Ford, GM rolling out third-party developer programs for in-vehicle apps

Green Car Congress

The Ford Developer Program for open mobile apps provides a software development kit (SDK), technical support from Ford engineers and a developer community to enable utilizing the SYNC connectivity system and AppLink application programming interface (API).

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Tigor EV Highway Drive: Bengaluru - Coimbatore - Ooty - Mysuru

Plug In India

Dinkar’s previous company had been providing a lot of consulting in the EV space, so he already has a good connect with component manufacturers. Followed Google Maps to hit Hosur road - and from then on the Maps was switched off. We switched on Google Maps and left for Ooty. But that is not the case in the cockpit.