Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The 50-person company recently opened a new office in Boston, MA to help expand its roster of engineers, scientists, and professional support staff. Iron ore companies, steel companies, and any company that relies on steel are invited to collaborate with Electra to accelerate the transition to green steel.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2016

Autonomous vehicle technology company Nauto has entered into strategic agreements with three major auto companies, including BMW i Ventures and Toyota Research Institute, as well as with Allianz Ventures, part of the leading global financial service provider and insurance company Allianz Group.

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APRIL 17, 2024

Boston Dynamics has just introduced a new Atlas humanoid robot , replacing the legendary hydraulic Atlas and intended to be a commercial product. Playter became the CEO in 2019, helping the company make the difficult transition from R&D to commercial products with Spot , Stretch , and now (or very soon) Atlas.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

The electric F-150, which is undergoing tens of thousands of hours of torture testing and targeting millions of simulated, laboratory and real world test miles, will be more powerful than any F-150 available today and deliver commercial and personal customers the lowest expected lifetime total cost of operation among F-Series trucks.

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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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Baua Electric

APRIL 4, 2024

Photo: Alsym Energy Boston-based Alsym Energy, which is developing a nonflammable rechargeable battery that’s cobalt and lithium-free, has announced a $78 million funding round. Alsym Energy will use the funds to grow its Boston-based team and expand its prototyping and pilot lines. Get started here. –

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Latimer literally wrote the book on electric lighting at Edison’s urging: Incandescent Electric Lighting: A Practical Description of the Edison System was published in 1890 by the Van Nostrand Company, a leading publisher of trade, technical, and scientific books in the 19th century. A Black Boston minister paid to free him.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 2, 2013

Rental car company Avis Budget Group, Inc. has agreed to acquire car-sharing company Zipcar for $12.25 The Boards of Directors of both companies unanimously approved the transaction, and Zipcar shareholders representing approximately 32% of the outstanding common stock have agreed to vote their shares in support of the transaction.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 14, 2022

This year, auto dealers in California will be able to go beyond personalized license plate frames to sell “Kindle-ized” license plates, in which the entire plate can display custom text and graphics using e-paper technology. Boston said three more U.S. That’s so last year. See updated pricing above. –Ed.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Koopman led a landmark 17-person trial that tested whether modulating the nervous system’s electrical-signaling patterns could tamp down inflammation and joint pain in RA. The company first repurposed an off-the-shelf implant used to control seizures in people with epilepsy. Robroek is also an outlier, though. SetPoint Medical.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2012

a producer of high-performance renewable specialty chemicals, and XiMo AG, a company focused on the development and application of proprietary metathesis catalysts, announced significant progress in the development of new technology for metathesizing natural oils and derivatives using Molybdenum-based catalysts. Schrock, Frederick G.

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Cars That Think

JULY 22, 2023

Agility isn’t the only robotics company to share its failures with an online audience. First, both Boston Dynamics and Agility Robotics have human-scale bipedal robots for which not falling seems pretty normal. Boston Dynamics’s Aaron Saunders, and Agility Robitics’ Jonathan Hurst and Bambi Brewer on.

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Cars That Think

JULY 22, 2023

The San Francisco–based company helps educators teach math to preuniversity students. She has first-hand experience in education: She taught math and physics in Boston-area high schools. She has first-hand experience in education: She taught math and physics in Boston-area high schools.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 5, 2024

Though the company does not heavily promote the new practice, it has attracted a following among the thrifty by dangling a bargain rate — $49 a person, whether sharing a cabin or traveling solo, before taxes and fees — on a web page that lists available departure dates to attract flexible travelers. Will other companies follow suit?

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Cars That Think

JULY 27, 2021

Fitness trackers and smartwatches now regularly gather personal health data like heart rate and steps taken per day. Bridging the gap between personal tech and clinical practice, however, is still a real challenge. A proliferation of studies suggest this information can lead to productive health outcomes.

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Electra Vehicles

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Electra Vehicles is a B2B company that provides AI-based software solutions to electric vehicles, electric fleets, and multiple battery-electric verticals for improved battery pack range, lifetime, and safety performance. Boston, USA & Milan, Italy, 22nd February 2023 - , Electra Vehicles, Inc. , US-based Electra Vehicles, Inc.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 1, 2024

Figure has raised a $675 million Series B , valuing the company at $2.6 NSF-supported researchers from New York University, using first-person video from a head-mounted camera, trained AI models to learn language through the eyes and ears of a child. [ million Series A in March of 2022.

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 31, 2023

Some auto companies have incorporated car sharing elements into their new business enterprises. Some small players were gobbled up by bigger companies. The success of one-way car sharing services is prompting more companies to consider offering this service model. Some big players have jumped in and then retreated.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

which is commercializing olefin metathesis technology for renewable fuels and chemicals ( earlier post ), has completed a licensing agreement with XiMo AG, a company founded by renowned chemists Amir H. Vanderslice Millennium Professor of Chemistry at Boston College. Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc., Hoveyda and Richard R.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 4, 2022

After a year of speculation based on little more than a person in a robot suit combined with some optimistic assertions made by Tesla CEO Elon Musk , many roboticists tuned in to the event livestream (or attended in person) to see what Tesla’s approach to humanoid robotics would turn out to be. If you pre-order 100K+ units.’.

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MAY 11, 2023

During a summer break, she was chosen for an internship with a venture-capital company that funded high-tech startups. To do this, we look at companies working with emerging technologies and also those applying technologies that are well established in one industry but not yet leveraged in health care or life sciences.”

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Cars That Think

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. Liberty Mutual Insurance Co., Wiener suggested that Amar G.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

1:40 — People really like throwing shade at Boston Dynamics, don't they? But this doesn't seem fair to me, especially for a company that Google used to own. What Boston Dynamics is doing is very hard, very impressive, and come on, pretty darn exciting. Recognizing things, yes. Understanding them, not so much.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 22, 2022

At SimpliSafe , an award-winning home security company based in Boston, Mass., Or what about having a video doorbell that could tell you if the backpacked teenager on your front stoop is your daughter returning home from school or a delivery person dropping off tonight’s takeout dinner? SimpliSafe works differently.

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Blink Charging

JUNE 23, 2023

Nearly two in five” said they had turned down a job or assignment that did not match their personal ethics. And Gen Z and Millennial employees who were satisfied with their companies’ impact were “more likely to want to stay with their employer for more than five years.”

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Blink Charging

JUNE 23, 2023

Nearly two in five” said they had turned down a job or assignment that did not match their personal ethics. And Gen Z and Millennial employees who were satisfied with their companies’ impact were “more likely to want to stay with their employer for more than five years.”

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

The NHTSA responded by calling out the company for not issuing a recall when it released its proactive over-the-air software update. . Law shared with Teslarati that over the course of his career, he has been personally involved in an accident four times, the first of which happened when he was just 18 years old.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2012

connecting to the objects they are accessing, other consumers, or the company.” RelayRides pioneered peer-to-peer car sharing when it launched in Boston in June 2010 and expanded into San Francisco later that year. Instead, we show it to be the reverse, with everyone looking out for their own best interest and not.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 28, 2021

A prime example is Stretch , a new robot from Boston Dynamics that can move heavy boxes where they need to go just as fast as an experienced warehouse worker. Stretch’s design is somewhat of a departure from the humanoid and quadrupedal robots that Boston Dynamics is best known for, such as Atlas and Spot.

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Teslarati

MARCH 31, 2022

Dr. Rachel Cavallaro , a licensed Psychologist with Thriveworks in Boston, informed Teslarati that vehicular accidents are the leading cause of post-traumatic stress disorder in the general population. He is also now part of the company’s FSD Beta program, which allows him to use automatic driving on inner-city streets. .

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Cars That Think

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. Despite strong support from the FAA, the airline industry, and aerospace companies, the U.S. The company, based in Reno, Nev., Everett Collection/Alamy.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Boston Dynamics ] The moral of this video is to always give your robots a gentle pat on the sensors when they do a good job at a challenging task. The Honda AWV is designed to boost workforce productivity and support repetitive tasks that allow companies to focus their workforce on value-added activities. SMART ITN ]

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Cars That Think

APRIL 24, 2022

CoSTAR’s pack of quadrupeds, consisting of Spot robots from Boston Dynamics modified with customized autonomy payloads [middle], undergo a hardware check before their final competition run. I got contacted immediately after the final event by the company that DARPA brought in to do the ground-truth mapping of the SubT course.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Adam Bry is the CEO of Skydio , a company that makes consumer camera drones with an astonishing amount of skill at autonomous tracking and obstacle avoidance. Skydio is currently on their third generation of consumer drones, and earlier this year, the company brought on three PhD students from Davide’s lab to expand their autonomy team.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 1, 2023

PARC, a Xerox company Rather, it’s half-century-old hardware running software of the same vintage, meticulously restored and in operation at the Computer History Museum’s archive center. The riches that resulted made it easy for the company to bankroll this new R&D laboratory focused on forward-looking projects. billion U.S.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2012

Fay says that the company is planning to sell the full complement of 2,600 RAV EVs in California, plus 30,000 Prius plug-in hybrids and to introduce iQ EV urban car sharing programs to achieve ZEV compliance. The target buyers have strong personal convictions on the environment, oil use, and cutting edge technology. “

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

While Boston Dynamics' Atlas humanoid spends its time learning how to dance and do parkour , the company's Spot quadruped is quietly getting much better at doing useful, valuable tasks in commercial environments. Functional safety, certified person detectors, all that good stuff, that's a really juicy unsolved field.

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