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Green Car Congress
AUGUST 29, 2013
Annual average concentrations of fine particulates from US sources of combustion emissions from (a) electric power generation; (b) industry; (c) commercial and residential sources; (d) road transportation; (e) marine transportation; (f) rail transportation; (g) sum of all combustion sources; (h) all sources. Source: MIT.
Cars That Think
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
The recent progress in commercial humanoids is just exhausting. Notable that Boston Dynamics is now saying that Atlas “gets ready for real work.” Boston Dynamics ] You deserve to be free from endless chores! GitHub ] via [ MIT ] This is one of those things that’s far more difficult than it might look.
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JULY 30, 2023
Those talks in turn led to a collaboration and an invention: the Boston Arm, an early myoelectric prosthesis. What was the Boston Arm? Discussions between cyberneticist Norbert Wiener [left] and surgeon Melvin Glimcher [right] inspired the Boston Arm. Bose , a professor of electrical engineering at MIT, and Robert W.
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AUGUST 16, 2021
Piloting the bullet-shaped Bell X-1 rocket plane in 1947, Chuck Yeager became the first person to exceed the speed of sound while in horizontal flight. Although military aircraft were breaking the sound barrier daily during the 1950s and '60s, commercial passenger flights during this time remained limited to subsonic speeds.
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APRIL 24, 2022
Team CoSTAR, a collaboration between NASA’s JPL, MIT, Caltech, KAIST, and LTU, inspects the communications-node deployment system on their Husky wheeled robots [top]. They’d spent 100 person-hours using very expensive equipment to make their map, and they wanted to know how in the world we got our map in under an hour with a bunch of robots.
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MARCH 1, 2023
The people who developed the Alto came to Xerox PARC from universities, industrial labs, and commercial ventures, bringing with them diverse experiences and skills. They typically connected to it with a teletypewriter, though the most avant-garde users may have employed simple text-only video terminals. The two were disciples of J.C.R.
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OCTOBER 3, 2023
Foundation for Skydio’s drones can be traced back to Adam’s work on autonomous agile drones at MIT , and after spending a few years at Google working on Project Wing’s delivery drones , Adam cofounded Skydio in 2014. We also know that Boston Dynamics is actually using only optimal control.
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