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Video Friday: Modular Polygons

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We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Total cost is about $1,300 AUD. Researchers led by the University of California, San Diego, have developed a new model that trains four-legged robots to see more clearly in 3D.

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Sustainable Weather Balloon Wins Student a $10,000 Scholarship

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The scholarship is administered on behalf of IEEE Educational Activities and is payable over four years of undergraduate university study. Schumann says he plans to study electrical engineering at a technical university in Berlin. Lynn Bowlby She discovered that a spike in the EEG data, a P300 signal, occurs in reaction to an event.

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Obama Administration launches series of actions to accelerate EV adoption; inc. $4.5B in loan guarantees, pursuing 350 kW fast charge

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35 new businesses, non-profits, universities, and utilities signing on to DOE’s Workplace Charging Challenge and committing to provide electric vehicle charging access for their workforce. The event will take place in concord with the release of anonymized data on EV charging stations to the research and software development community.

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Video Friday: Strandbeest

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We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Paper ] A low-cost robot does extreme parkour including high jumps on obstacles 2x its height, long jumps across gaps 2x its length, handstand on stairs, and running across tilted ramps.

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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At a press event on Monday, Oregon’s governor, Ted Kulongoski, was talking up Nissan’s previously announced partnership with the state. She spent the previous year as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, and before that she was the Southwest correspondent for The Economist based in Austin, Tex.

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