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That Awesome Robot Demo Could Have a Human in the Loop

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Last year, I wrote an article for the IEEE Robotics & Automation Society (RAS) with some tips for making a good robot video, which includes arguably the most important thing: context. Here’s an excerpt from the RAS article: It’s critical to provide accurate context for videos of robots. Is the robot just too good?

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High School Students Built This iPhone App for the Visually Impaired

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Because they couldn’t conduct in-person interviews due to COVID-19 pandemic restrictions, the students used Facebook to find people with vision problems and ask about their needs. To learn about which technologies to use, Ahn helped the students get access to research articles from a variety of IEEE publications including. Atheia Demo.

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Opinion: Consumer Reports’ Tesla Autopilot stunt crossed a line in an already-heated EV climate

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The magazine’s team seemed to have buckled in the driver’s seatbelt without a person sitting in the seat. Simply put, if a person is intentionally putting themselves in danger by participating in illegal driving behaviors, no driver-monitoring system would be enough.

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The Tesla MCU1 conundrum: How early FSD adopters were left behind in limbo

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It was then no surprise that when the company debuted its first FSD demo in 2016 , numerous Model S and Model X owners were all too willing to support Tesla. . The ad) also stated ‘The person in the driver’s seat is only there for legal reasons. Tesla advertised that I would get true L5 autonomy. Credit: Teslarati).

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The Do-or-Die Moments That Determined the Fate of the Internet

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Several of these events, such as the first public demo of the ARPANET in 1972, or the mid-1980s conferences now known as Interop, alerted experts to new technologies, and, in some cases, altered the balance between competing approaches. in late October of 1972—he worked feverishly to get it organized. All the U.S.

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The Cold War Arms Race Over Prosthetic Arms

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In 1961, Glimcher traveled to the Soviet Union to see a demo of the Russian Hand. I’m the type of person who always jumps to the end of a book, just to see how things work out, so it is no surprise that I read the last section of Alter’s thesis, “Suggestions for the Future,” first. There was a need for prosthetics of different sizes.

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Flight Simulator Gave Birth to 3D Video-Game Graphics

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In 1977, he wrote an article for Kilobaud: The Small Computer Magazine describing the “Sublogic Three-Dimensional Micrographics Package” he had created, which brought 3D to microcomputers outfitted with the popular Motorola 6800 microprocessor. Scot Bayless, the studio manager overseeing the team, says an early demo left Bill Gates stunned.

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