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Toyota introduces 2012 Prius Plug-in Hybrid

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The production plug-in hybrid has a number of key changes from the 125 prototype demo units that were deployed in the field for testing and customer feedback. The demo units defaulted to EV mode. The on-board charging system accommodates single pulse DC 110/220 volt input, and is compliant to SAE J1772 standards.

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For Better or Worse, Tesla Bot Is Exactly What We Expected

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Tesla Bot Development Platform Demo. If anything, the robot’s movement is not quite up to DRC standards, since it looks like it would have trouble with any kind of accidental contact or even a bit of non-level floor (and Musk suggested as much). Tesla Bot Latest Generation Demo. And I think after that, progress will be slow.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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It employs approximately 350 researchers, managers, and support staff (by comparison, Bell Laboratories before the AT&T breakup employed roughly 25,000). Networking: The Story of Ethernet By today’s standards the Alto was not a particularly powerful computer. A lot of the ideas in Ada [the standard programming language of the U.S.

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