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Automating Road Maintenance With LiDAR Technology

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This is a sponsored article brought to you by SICK Inc. In this challenge, SICK reached out to universities across the nation that were looking to support innovation and student achievement in automation and technology. The team designed two mounting brackets to connect the system to a vehicle. So what is the TiM$10K Challenge?

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MIT Professor’s IoT Sensors Make Roads Safer

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Hari Balakrishnan Employer MIT Title Professor Member grade Fellow Alma maters Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and the University of California, Berkeley He and his research team at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory developed CarTel, short for car telematics. While pursuing a Ph.D.

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Why EVs Aren't a Climate Change Panacea

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For instance, Alexandre Milovanoff at the University of Toronto and his colleagues’ research (which is described in depth in a recent Spectrum article ) demonstrates the U.S. Dronning Louise’s Bro (Queen Louise’s Bridge) connects inner Copenhagen and Nørrebro and is frequented by many cyclists and pedestrians every day.

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3 Challenges to Solve Before We Can Commute by Air Taxi

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All over the world, startup companies, government agencies, universities, and airlines are collaborating to launch an entirely new category of aviation based on electric aircraft capable of both vertical takeoff and efficient horizontal flight. Nothing like this has ever been attempted on a large scale. Mass), Amherst.

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Deep Learning’s Diminishing Returns

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This article is part of our special report on AI, “ The Great AI Reckoning. ”. Even his inaugural paper was forced to acknowledge the voracious appetite of neural networks for computational power, bemoaning that "as the number of connections in the network increases.the burden on a conventional digital computer soon becomes excessive.".

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DARPA SubT Finals: Meet the Teams

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For a recent recap, have a look at this post-cave pre-final article that includes an interview with SubT Program Manager Tim Chung , but if you don't have time for that, the TLDR is that this week we're looking at both a Virtual Track as well as a Systems Track with physical robots on a real course. University of Nevada, Reno.

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

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This article was first published as “Inside the PARC: the ‘information architects’.” Structured VLSI design, now taught in more than 100 universities. And unlike university research laboratories, PARC had one unifying vision: it would develop “the architecture of information.” Legend has it that McColough then turned to Jack E.

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