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Q&A: Marc Raibert on the Boston Dynamics AI Institute

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Last week, Hyundai Motor Group and Boston Dynamics announced an initial investment of over $400 million to launch the new Boston Dynamics AI Institute. If we can start by looking back a little bit—what kind of company did you want Boston Dynamics to be when you founded it in 1992? It took a while before we got back to robotics.

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New serpentine optical phased array could support medium- to long-range lidar

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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. the array of gratings diffracts light to an angle determined by the wavelength-dependent row-to-row phase delay.

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Video Friday: GR-1

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This collaborative work between researchers from the University of Southern Denmark and VISTEC introduces a biomorphic soft robotic skin for a hexapod robot platform, featuring a central pattern generator–based neural controller for generating respiratory-like motions on the skin. Flexiv ] Interesting HRI with the flashing light on Spot here.

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Video Friday: Co-Expression

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Columbia engineers build Emo, a silicon-clad robotic face that makes eye contact and uses two AI models to anticipate and replicate a person’s smile before the person actually smiles—a major advance in robots predicting human facial expressions accurately, improving interactions, and building trust between humans and robots.

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Physics Nobel Laureate Herbert Kroemer Dies at 95

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Heterostructures describe the interfaces between two semiconductors that serve as the building blocks between more elaborate nanostructures. Kroemer was professor emeritus of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara , when he died. The effect, first observed by J.B. Vladimir G.

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Bosch developing sensor box for air taxis using production-tested components from automotive

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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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What Robotics Experts Think of Tesla’s Optimus Robot

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Assistant Professor, University of Toronto. 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. Assistant Professor, Florida State University. BACK TO TOP ↑ ]. Animesh Garg.

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