Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Ayato Kanada, an assistant professor at Kyushu University, wants to build woodpecker-inspired Doc Ock tentacles. Flexiv ] Interesting HRI with the flashing light on Spot here. Boston Dynamics ] Flying in circles with a big tank of gas really seems like a better job for a robot pilot than for a human one. UZH RPG ]

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Yesterday, six companies that build or support sophisticated mobile robots (led by Boston Dynamics). Along with Agility Robotics, ANYbotics, Clearpath Robotics, Open Robotics, and Unitree, Boston Dynamics’ letter seeks to ensure that its robots are used safely and ethically, in a way that helps rather than harms.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2019

The Boston Consulting Group predicts that people around the world will take 1 billion flights in air taxis in 2030, once sharing services have also established a presence on fixed routes above the ground; most of those air taxis will be capable of operating without a pilot. Bosch is working on sensor technology for air taxis.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Tesla would also have to build a facility that will likely be dedicated to Optimus production. That said, my guess is there's greater than 50% chance that it eventually it sees the light of day. Tesla would definitely have to face a lot of challenges before it can successfully deliver Optimus to consumers.

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EV Central

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

As well as conversions of new Ford Rangers and Toyota Hiluxes – the two top selling utes in the country – which will be priced from $47,990 (plus the cost of the ute), Roev is gearing up for EV conversions of the same utes with build dates as far back as 2016. Roev says it wants to convert 1000 utes in the first 12 months.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Interest in building such systems is welcome because Tesla and Elon Musk’s involvement in the problem brings attention, talent, and resources to the problem, setting in motion a flywheel of progress. Surprised Tesla went full Boston Dynamics mode with classical control/planning when it’s been around for a while…. Yet to see autonomy.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2021

DARPA competitions to build on. You can't just "put that" onto a humanoid robot and have any sort of expectation that it'll be useful, unless all you want it to do is walk down the middle of the street and obey traffic lights. It's possible, even likely, that Tesla will build some sort of Tesla Bot by sometime next year, as Musk says.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Dust, temperatures, horrible lighting, that sort of thing. Boston Dynamics ] Some very clever work from UZH, leveraging depth cameras to target 3D sensors on stuff you care about: the parts of the scene that move. Here we release a digest video of the demonstration. Gitai ] I have questions: Where did Spot put that beer?

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 10, 2021

While there, he suggested the company build more accurate calibration systems. The OCCHC builds apartments and homes in low-income neighborhoods. He briefly worked at Maytag and left the commercial appliance manufacturer to join Iowa Power and Light. Robert Worth Electrical engineer Life senior member, 93; died 16 May.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 25, 2023

Aurora, Ontario, Canada (905) 726-2462 Swamy Kotagiri (CEO) $18,920 ( f ) $16,671 ( f ) $37,840 ( f ) $36,242 ( f ) Frame buildings, exteriors, powertrain, electronics, mechatronics, mirrors, lighting fixtures, seating, whole automobile production Northville, MI, USA (734) 855-2600 Martin Fischer (president & member board of control) $12,000 $10,454 (..)

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2015

In order to reliably arrive on time for important freeway trips, travelers had to allow 48 minutes to make a trip that takes 20 minutes in light traffic. nationally) including Riverside, Houston, Los Angeles, San Jose, Boston and Chicago. Source: TTI, INRIX. Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

JULY 15, 2023

Army Reserve base near Boston, an unusual structure is rising from the rolling hills. Brandon Sorbom , the scientific director of Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) , leads me toward the center of the building’s cross-shaped footprint, weaving among scaffolding, forklifts, and teams of welders and painters. On the site of a former U.S.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

The premise of the SDMO law is simple: Upon noticing an emergency vehicle’s sirens or flashing lights on the side of the road, drivers are required to move away from the emergency vehicle by going into the next lane. If you ask the biggest danger to a firefighter, most envision being trapped in a burning or collapsing building.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Then he waves a vial of purple liquid and gets a purple light along with the message “Listerine.”. In the final product, the sensor won’t light up an LED but will instead send a signal to the user’s brain. An LED glows blue, and Costanzo’s phone displays the word “Windex.” But even then, these interventions don’t work for everyone.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 26, 2021

You notice the smell of smoke, and when you try to turn on your bedside light you discover that the power is out. sensor units mounted on buildings to stream data via Wi-Fi to Web-based mapping programs. Sensors that mount on buildings can just plug into a wall outlet. Why is the dog barking, you wonder, as you wake up?

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

Early utility companies like Boston Edison and New York Edison organized EV fleets, favoring electric trucks for their comparatively capacious batteries. light-duty vehicle fleet would produce around 16 times the output of stationary power plants. Those applications will require institutional fleets of EVs.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2020

University of Colorado Boulder researchers, with colleagues at Boston University, have developed a new optical phased array concept—the serpentine OPA (SOPA)—that could support medium- to long-range lidar. each grating waveguide diffracts light to an angle determined by the wavelength-dependent tooth-to-tooth phase delay. (e)

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2010

and Northeastern University in Boston, Mass., Each plant Princeton designs will produce a separate co-product: synthetic gasoline, light olefins, hydrogen, or ammonia. Georgia Tech will team with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colo., DOE share: $1,101,814; Recipient share: $463,585; Duration: 36 months).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2012

Depending upon consumer response and demand, Toyota could consider contracting with Tesla for additional units, perhaps to be rolled out in cities such as Boston and New York, or in other California ZEV states. The current RAV4 EV uses Tesla Model S powertrain components; earlier Phase 0 builds used components from the Roadster.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Up there, 10 to 50 kilometers above the Earth’s surface, ozone molecules absorb the sun’s ultraviolet light, protecting life far below. Keith is also the founder of Carbon Engineering, a Canadian firm building a sprawling facility in West Texas that will pull carbon dioxide directly from the air.). agency to provide oversight.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 16, 2021

government established a Supersonic Transport Advisory Committee, which began discussions with international partners about building a supersonic airliner. It has used that money to build a one-third scale prototype, called the XB-1, of an airliner that will be able to carry as many as 88 passengers.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2023

The answer depends in part on whether such cars require a type of sensor called lidar, short for “light detection and ranging.” The latest prototype lidar system from Analog Photonics shows off its capabilities at a busy intersection in Boston. It has no moving parts and generates, emits, and receives light with no external hardware.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Davide’s drones rely primarily on computer vision, and he’s also been exploring potential drone applications for a special kind of camera called an event camera , which is ideal for fast motion under challenging lighting conditions. And so one of the things that we think a lot about in how we build our products—we’re a company.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 19, 2024

We’re making progress every day on building a clean energy future for New York. OrstedUS) December 6, 2023 Ørsted is jointly developing the offshore wind farm with Boston-based energy provider Eversource. federal waters to begin providing clean, offshore wind energy to the grid! pic.twitter.com/AVn6eQKV6n — Ørsted U.S.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 8, 2024

Dear Tripped Up, One day last July, I was dropping off a rental car at Budget’s location at Boston Logan International Airport when I misplaced my iPhone. As best as I can recall, I left it in the car while I went to throw away some trash, but neither my wife nor I nor the employee who was helping us could find it.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Sketchpad users could not only draw points, line segments, and circular arcs on a cathode ray tube (CRT) with a light pen—they could also assign constraints to, and relationships among, whatever they drew. Said English, “This was my second chance to build a mouse; it was obvious that it should be a lot smaller, and that it should be digital.”

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

A one year update of our ongoing project with Ontario Power Generation (OPG) and RMUS Canada to investigate the capabilities of Boston Dynamics’ Spot robot for autonomous inspection and first response in the power sector. Contoro ] Thanks, Youngmok! UCSD ] Thanks, Liezel! no matter the weather.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 1, 2023

PARC, a Xerox company The new laboratory was to include sections intended to extend Xerox’s lock on patents surrounding the physical production of documents in offices, that is, materials like photoconductors—which become more electrically conductive when exposed to light—along with toners and optics, all key parts of copier technology.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

several genes that allow the plant to use light more efficiently, increase its carbon uptake, and divert more energy to the. light energy. uptake, and optimized light utilization. no rare earth materials, but is light, compact, and potentially. materials, but is light, compact, and has the potential to.

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EV Connect

MAY 15, 2023

For instance, Braintree Electric Light Department offers a $250 discount to customers who enroll in its Bring Your Own Charger program and purchase level 2 chargers. The companies are also permitted to add a surcharge to customer utility bills to provide additional funding for building the required charging infrastructure.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 19, 2009

0:00 / 4:23 Big battery bet If we dont care about our automotive industry, we can let Toyota ( TM ) or Honda ( HMC ) build our electric cars, with LG or Panasonic ( PC ) making the batteries. There is a model that may point to the way to build a new battery industry: the early days of the microprocessor. To keep U.S. To keep U.S.

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EV Connect

MARCH 18, 2021

By the end of the decade , studies indicate that as many as a third of all vehicles on the road in America will be EVs — and if you pull up to a red light in 2040, more than half of the vehicles around you will run on electricity. The momentum is building and the industry is about to have massive growth — more than ever before.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2013

To do so, Boeing is making changes to the battery, to the battery charger, and is building a new enclosure for the battery. refueling, brake power when towing, navigation lights when towing. It has been misreported that all we are doing is building an enclosure around a potential fire. The events.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The first buyers will be fleet users, which will build central fast-charging facilities. Put simply, this little-known upstart has accelerated ahead of its much bigger rivals in the race to build an affordable electric car. " Wang is also focused on building a stronger executive team to drive the company forward.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Electric cars and a smart electric grid have a bright future, according to panelists at a roundtable discussion on the subject that I attended last Friday in Boston. “I February 17, 2009 7:03 am Link Smart Grid An Invaluable Idea Worldwide / Buildings could become the new power plants BRUSSELS ? the biggest cuts anywhere in the world.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 25, 2022

On February 11, 1955, an anonymous tip led two New York Police Department detectives and two New York Telephone Company investigators to an apartment on the fourth floor of a residential building at 360 East 55th Street in midtown Manhattan. New York City private investigator and attorney John G.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Photo: General Motors See Also: Feds Say the Volt Wont Save GM Well See a Chevrolet Volt in June Design Under Constraint: How to Build a Streamlined, Mass-Produced Electric Car Stumble ShareThis Claiming that GM has 18 models that get 30 mpg or more is a bit of a false dichotomy. Forget the black helicopter conspiracies.

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