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Hyundai Motor Group to acquire controlling interest in mobile robot firm Boston Dynamics

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Hyundai Motor Group will acquire a controlling interest in the mobile robot firm Boston Dynamics from Softbank in a deal that values Boston Dynamics at $1.1 Boston Dynamics is the established leader in developing agile, mobile robots that have been successfully integrated into various business operations. Hyundai Mobis Co.

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Study: air pollution caused 1.1M deaths across Africa in 2019, toll from outdoor pollution rising

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—Philip Landrigan, director of Boston College’s Global Observatory on Pollution and Health. million people worldwide in 2017, the paper notes. Air pollution was responsible for 1.1 The most disturbing finding was the increase in deaths from ambient air pollution. billion in 2020 to 4.3 billion by 2100. —Philip Landrigan.

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ICCT quantifies the EV charging infrastructure gap across US markets

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The figure illustrates the deployment of public and workplace charging infrastructure through 2017 as a percentage of what will be needed by 2025 across the 100 most populous US metropolitan areas (the 50 most populous are labeled). Although much work remains, progress toward the charging infrastructure system of the future is well underway.

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Plug-in hybrid video test, Mercedes diesel future, nuTonomy autonomous car: Today's Car News

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Today, we compare the 2017 Chevrolet Volt and 2017 Toyota Prius Prime plug-in hybrids, Mercedes-Benz contemplates the future of diesel cars in the U.S., and nuTonomy plans to test its autonomous Renault Zoe electric car on the streets of Boston. See how the 2017 Chevrolet Volt and 2017 Toyota Prius Prime.

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Maven Gig begins expanding geographically; Bolt EV the most popular

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Future cities include Baltimore, Boston, Detroit, Phoenix and Washington, D.C. More than 100 Bolt EVs are available in Los Angeles and that number will double by the end of 2017. In Boston, Maven Gig will start with 20 Bolt EVs and will scale as infrastructure allows. Maven Gig Bolt EVs have driven 1.4

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IIHS study finds drivers significantly more likely to speed while using adaptive cruise control

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To find out the impact ACC and lane centering technologies have on speeding, IIHS researchers analyzed the behavior of 40 drivers from the Boston metro area over a four-week period using data collected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Advanced Vehicle Technology Consortium.

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Deep Learning Can’t be Trusted Brain Modelling Pioneer Says

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Grossberg—an endowed professor of cognitive and neural systems, and of mathematics and statistics, psychological and brain sciences, and biomedical engineering at Boston University —based ART on his theories about how the brain processes information. He calls his model Adaptive Resonance Theory (ART).

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