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Video Friday: Googly Eye

Cars That Think

Inspired by the adaptable nature of organic brains, researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have introduced a method for robust flight navigation agents to master vision-based fly-to-target tasks in intricate, unfamiliar environments. Can they help the average person beat a high jumper?

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NSF awards $20 million to two new testbeds to support cloud computing applications and experiments

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Cloud computing refers to the practice of using a network of remote servers to store, manage and process data, rather than a local server or a personal computer. In recent years, cloud computing has become the dominant method of providing computing infrastructure for Internet services.

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Live Blog: Tesla (TSLA) 2021 Annual Meeting of Stockholders

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This pretty much confirms that the “Terafactory” concept would probably not be that much larger than the company’s current Gigafactories. But I think we can do a lot with Berlin and Austin and expanding in China and Fremont, so the nice thing is having a factory in Europe, China, and North America. 15:25 PT – Any new factories?

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Goal!

Plug In Partners

As stated at the opening press conference by Austin's Mayor Will Wynn in January, 2006, “ Plug-in hybrids represent a real near-term solution to America’s over-reliance on foreign oil imports and energy prices that escalate the cost of everything and threaten the very economic life of our nation,” “The technology exists today ,” Wynn says.

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Lotfi Zadeh and the Birth of Fuzzy Logic

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As a child, Zadeh was surrounded by governesses and tutors, while as a young adult, he had a personal servant. It was a comfortable, undemanding environment; I was not challenged internally. Austin, Texas. Two weeks later he had a fairly fleshed-out group of concepts to present to his collaborator at Rand, Richard Bellman.

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Video Friday: Welcome to Fall

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IEEE SSRR 2023 : 13–15 November 2023, FUKUSHIMA, JAPAN Humanoids 2023 : 12–14 December 2023, AUSTIN, TEX. For the purposes of this test, we force Digit to fall in a controlled environment to demonstrate our new self-righting and recovering ability. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months.

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Video Friday: Autonomous Car Drifting, Aerial-Aquatic Drone, and Jet-Powered Robot

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Goh, Ufuk Topcu, and Avinash Balachandran from University of Texas at Austin, USA, and Toyota Research Institute, Los Altos, Calif., This paper presents a quadrotor prototype of this concept and the design details and realization in practice. Abstract: AngGo is a hands-free shared indoor smart mobility device for public use.

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