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Video Friday: Pedipulate

Cars That Think

We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Legged robots have the potential to become vital in maintenance, home support, and exploration scenarios. Robot built by Boston Dynamics for the DARPA Robotics Challenge in 2013. Lex Fridman ]

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Video Friday: Swarm Control

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We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Kickstarter ] Researchers created a method for magnetically programming materials to make cubes that are very picky about who they connect with, enabling more scalable self-assembly.

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Video Friday: $2.6 Billion

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We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. This release helps maintenance teams tap into the power of AI with new software capabilities and Spot enhancements.

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Testimony: Why I like my electric vehicle

Electric Auto Association

Like many of the residents that come to our EV Ride & Drive events or email me for advice on what EV to buy, I appreciate the many advantages EVs have over internal combustion engine-powered ones. We routinely drive to see our daughter in Washington, DC and have driven to Cleveland, Boston, New York and Charleston, SC without concern.

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Building the Future of Smart Home Security

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It’s nearly impossible to find a household today that doesn’t have at least one connected smart home device installed. At SimpliSafe , an award-winning home security company based in Boston, Mass., Managing the server activity of those connected devices is a unique challenge to SimpliSafe. SimpliSafe works differently.

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Your Robotic Avatar Is Almost Ready

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In 2018 , the XPrize Foundation announced a competition (sponsored by the Japanese airline ANA) to create “an avatar system that can transport human presence to a remote location in real time,” with the goal of developing robotic systems that could be used by humans to interact with the world anywhere with a decent Internet connection.

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Boeing details improvements to Li-ion battery system for 787; more than 200,000 engineering hours applied so far

Green Car Congress

The company’s intent is to provide three layers of protection: preventing initiation of an event at the cell level; preventing propagation of an event to the other cells in the pack; and preventing impact to the airplane. The main battery is used during ground maintenance operations—e.g., The events. Background.

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