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Audi’s Autonomous Intelligent Driving teams up with Luminar for advanced LiDAR

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This perception data models the vehicle’s environment, both near and far, by detecting objects, vehicles, pedestrians and other challenging obstacles. —Luminar founder and chief executive officer, Austin Russell. Luminar is funded by Volvo Cars Tech Fund, Canvas Ventures, GVA Capital and 1517 Fund.

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Video Friday: Resilient Bugbots

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We propose Kinodynamic Fabrics as an approach for the specification, solution and simultaneous execution of multiple motion tasks in real-time while being reactive to dynamism in the environment. With the RPD 35, a two-person crew can install pile more productivity than traditional methods. ARL ] Thanks, Kostas! ARL ] Thanks, Kostas!

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Video Friday: Googly Eye

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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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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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“People were really interested in clean air and clean water, so I decided there would always be interest in the environment,” Crawford says. You study many areas in civil engineering, including structures, soils, transportation, and the environment,” she says. She switched her major to civil and environmental engineering.

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Elon Musk warns of tricky economic system, says Tesla now not exempt

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On the corporate’s annual shareholder assembly in Austin, Texas, Musk performed indisposed marketplace rumors that he might step indisposed as CEO of Tesla, touched upon two unutilized mass-market fashions it’s growing, and reaffirmed that deliveries of its long-delayed Cybertruck pickup would get started this pace. .

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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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NYU Tandon Exploring “Megabase-Scale” Genetic Engineering

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at The University of Texas at Austin, producing a technique to directly edit genes. But from that kind of cultural environment I started thinking about “How do we manipulate the genome at this much larger scale?” — building larger sections of the human genome from scratch or modifying sections, or building whole chromosomes.

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