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Video Friday: Tiny Robot Bug Hops and Jumps

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My collaborators and I brought two industrial robots to life to be the central feature of the minimalist scenography for the Japanese brand. With only three-weeks development time and three days on-site, I built custom live coding tools that opened up the industrial robots to more improvisational workflows.

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Henry Samueli and the Rise of Digital Broadband

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thesisa highly theoretical paper entitled Nonperiodic forced overflow oscillations in digital filtersand a few years in industry before he felt he had satisfied that goal. The defense industry beckons With the completion of his doctoral thesis, Samueli joined a friend as a member of the technical staff at TRW, in Redondo Beach, Calif.

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Video Friday: Agile Humanoids

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However, one of the biggest barriers to adopting robots in these industries is the challenge of navigating the rugged terrain found in these environments. In 2025, well be deploying our groundbreaking wheeled-legged robots with major logistics carriers for last-mile delivery to set new standards for efficiency and sustainability.

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How U.S. Airports Like Pittsburgh’s Generate Electricity On Site to Avoid Heathrow-Like Outages

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In late 2017, an electrical fire caused a power outage at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, disrupting flights nationwide and costing Delta Air Lines, the largest airline at the airport, tens of millions of dollars. Commerce Department. That and other outages prompted Ms. can help reduce an airports carbon footprint.

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Video Friday: High Mobility Logistics

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In this deep dive, Matt unboxes the ghosts of robots pastsharing behind-the-scenes stories, bold design decisions, lessons learned, and how the industry itself has shifted gears. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.

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Waymo kicks off initial tests in Japan with launch event

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“Our partnership demonstrates how Waymo’s 15 years of operational expertise can adapt to new environments through strategic initiatives with industry leaders,” Gavel adds. The Alphabet-owned company is also aiming to launch services in Atlanta, Georgia and Miami, Florida this year, alongside its early tests in Tokyo.

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This Man Made the Modem in Your Phone a Reality

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Scientific Atlanta Connects with Broadcom In December 1992, a student of Samuelis gave a presentation at Globecom (the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, that is) about a prototype 10-plus megabit-per-second digital modem chip the group had developed. At the time, Scientific Atlanta shared the U.S. Broadcom created an industry.

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