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Toyota Research Institute establishes 3rd US facility; AI, materials science and robotics research at U-M

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The new facility will be located in Ann Arbor, near the University of Michigan (U-M) campus where it will fund research in artificial intelligence, robotics and materials science. TRI researchers will push the frontier even further, with the goal of providing safer vehicles and more helpful robots in the home.

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Toyota Research Institute “deeply satisfied” with results of $100M collaborative research program with US universities

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The program expanded during 2022 to include 21 university partners and 61 projects focused on energy and materials, human-centered artificial intelligence, human interactive driving, machine learning, and robotics. The last year saw three papers win awards at the Robotics: Science and Systems Conference (RSS).

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Hyundai Motor Group starts building lunar exploration rover development model

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In July 2022, the Group signed a joint multilateral research agreement with six Korean research institutes in the aerospace sector to run and support a consultative body to develop a mobility solution for lunar surface exploration.

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Video Friday: Monocycle Robot With Legs

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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. In this video, we present Ringbot, a novel leg-wheel transformer robot incorporating a monocycle mechanism with legs.

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35 Years Ago, Researchers Used Brain Waves to Control a Robot

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Using the brain to directly control an object was long the stuff of science fiction, and in 1988 the vision became a reality. IEEE Life Senior Member Stevo Bozinovski and Members Mihail Sestakov and Dr. Liljana Bozinovska used a student volunteer’s electroencephalogram (EEG) brain signals to move a robot along a closed-circuit track.

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Soft Robot Walks by Repeatedly Blowing Itself Up

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Batteries are quiet and clean and easy to integrate with electrically powered robots, but they’re 20 to 50 times less energy dense than a chemical fuel like methanol or butane. Put two of these actuators together (driving two legs a piece) and you’ve got an exceptionally powerful soft quadruped robot.

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EU-funded project Recirculate seeks to create new business models for repair, reuse, and recycling of second-life batteries

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Advanced technology providers Probot ’s role is to integrate and test the AI-based robotic battery dismantling and sorting (D&S) system. Project management and coordination Centria University of Applied Sciences will coordinate the Recirculate project and will be responsible for efficient communication between the project’s participants.

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