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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 in computational imaging, is on track to graduate next year.

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Video Friday: Pedipulate

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In order to interact with and manipulate their environments, most legged robots are equipped with a dedicated robot arm, which means additional mass and mechanical complexity compared to standard legged robots. Robot built by Boston Dynamics for the DARPA Robotics Challenge in 2013. Pedipulate ] I learned a new word today! Cool, right?

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Video Friday: ReachBot

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Robotics Summit & Expo : 10–11 May 2023, BOSTON ICRA 2023 : 29 May–2 June 2023, LONDON RoboCup 2023 : 4–10 July 2023, BORDEAUX, FRANCE RSS 2023 : 10–14 July 2023, DAEGU, KOREA IEEE RO-MAN 2023 : 28–31 August 2023, BUSAN, KOREA CLAWAR 2023 : 2–4 October 2023, FLORIANOPOLIS, BRAZIL Enjoy today’s videos! Panelists: Elliot W.

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Your Robotic Avatar Is Almost Ready

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Under some fairly specific constraints, autonomous robots are starting to find a few valuable niches in semistructured environments, like offices and hospitals and warehouses. It’s still an achievement for autonomous robots to merely survive in the real world, which is a long way from any kind of useful generalized autonomy.

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Video Friday: The Simplest Walking Robot

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This was just presented at the IEEE Humanoids Conference in Austin. And here’s a second video with more technical detail on how the robot works: [ CMU ] Happy Holiday from Boston Dynamics! Boston Dynamics ] Is there a world where Digit can leverage a large language model (LLM) to expand its capabilities and better adapt to our world?

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

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AC Propulsion’s president, Tom Gage, explains the company’s vehicle-to-grid technology at a 2001 conference in Seattle. Early utility companies like Boston Edison and New York Edison organized EV fleets, favoring electric trucks for their comparatively capacious batteries. Those applications will require institutional fleets of EVs.

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Drones That Can Fly Better Than You Can

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His lab is best known for developing extremely agile drones that can autonomously navigate through complex environments at very high speeds. They might have some context from a clue that came up earlier in the case or something about the environment or something about the weather. So is this actually also what you experience?