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Boston Dynamics’ Founder on the Future of Robotics

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When Marc Raibert founded Boston Dynamics in 1992, he wasn’t even sure it was going to be a robotics company—he thought it might become a modeling and simulation company instead. Now, of course, Boston Dynamics is the authority in legged robots, with its Atlas biped and Spot quadruped. He now leads the Boston Dynamics AI Institute.

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IEEE’s Honor Society Gave This Boston University Student Tools to Succeed

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As a member of the Kappa Sigma chapter at Boston University , he learned leadership and communications skills while accepting different roles. Greene was a guest lecturer for an introduction to engineering course at the Wentworth Institute of Technology , also in Boston. “If

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Learn From the Best Minds in Commercial Robotics Development

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The Robotics Summit & Expo , taking place May 10-11 at the Boston Convention Center, will bring together the brightest minds in robotics to share their commercial robotics development experiences. Use code IEEE25 at checkout to save 25% off your full conference pass! This year’s program has an exceptional lineup of speakers.

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Act On Climate was a big step for RI. Now let’s work quickly to implement it

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You may be reading more about climate policy in the news because of COP26, the global conference in Glasgow to address the climate crisis hosted by the United Nations. This work is important for the sake of international cooperation and because climate change is a global issue.

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Video Friday: Pedipulate

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This work, by Philip Arm, Mayank Mittal, Hendrik Kolvenbach, and Marco Hutter from ETHZ RSL, will be presented at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation ( ICRA 2024 ) in May in Japan (see events calendar above). Robot built by Boston Dynamics for the DARPA Robotics Challenge in 2013. Software by IHMC Robotics.

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Video Friday: No Time to Dance

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Caltech ] On May 17th, the Furhat Conference on Social Robotics returns with a new lineup of experts who will share their latest cutting edge research and innovation projects using social robots and conversational AI. Registration for the conference is free and now open. Furhat Conference ] Thanks, Chris!

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Draper awarded patent on electrostatic motors; family under development

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12 th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems. 03TH8664), Boston, MA, USA, pp. Tanaka and M. Esashi (2003) “High power electrostatic motor and generator using electrets,” TRANSDUCERS '03. Digest of Technical Papers (Cat. 492-495 vol.1, 1, doi: 10.1109/SENSOR.2003.1215361. 2003.1215361.

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