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Years Later, Alphabet’s Everyday Robots Have Made Some Progress

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Last week, Google or Alphabet or X or whatever you want to call it announced that its Everyday Robots team has grown enough and made enough progress that it's time for it to become its own thing, now called, you guessed it, "Everyday Robots." 1:40 — People really like throwing shade at Boston Dynamics, don't they? 2:10 — Yeah, okay.

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Video Friday: Dark Side Spot

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I honestly could not tell you whether this goes against Boston Dynamics' terms of sale or not. KIMLAB ] Today, robots by and large exist in industrial environments, and are painstakingly coded for specific tasks. Google Research ] From a robotics perspective, this is a nifty project, and well executed by Allen Pan.

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Figure Promises First General Purpose Humanoid Robot

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Over the past year, Figure has hired more than 40 engineers from institutions that include IHMC, Boston Dynamics, Tesla, Waymo, and Google X, most of whom have significant prior experience with humanoid robots or other autonomous systems. Which sounds great, when (or if) it happens.

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Drones That Can Fly Better Than You Can

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Foundation for Skydio’s drones can be traced back to Adam’s work on autonomous agile drones at MIT , and after spending a few years at Google working on Project Wing’s delivery drones , Adam cofounded Skydio in 2014. We also know that Boston Dynamics is actually using only optimal control.

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Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles

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Neutral vdex34 @ Apr 19th 2009 8:18PM for the people bitch about garages, how about something that plus into your outdoor outlets, i got like 6 of them in my yard, at least 2 in the front of the house (and my house is over 100 years old) Highly Ranked Decoy @ Apr 19th 2009 8:56PM You can afford a Tesla, but not a garage? In a word, no.