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Hyundai Motor Group puts Spot to work at Kia’s plant in South Korea

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The Robot is based on Boston Dynamics’ quadruped robot, Spot, with applied artificial intelligence (AI), autonomous navigation, teleoperation technologies, and computing payload (AI Processing Service Unit) developed by the Group’s Robotics Lab for the Robot’s usage in various industrial tasks.

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Video Friday: Pedipulate

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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. 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.

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Video Friday: PoKeBo Cubes

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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. Like, they'll talk to each other about current events and the weather, which you'll pick up just by being nearby and low-key listening in. [ SRI ] Meet Josh, a mechanical engineer at Boston Dynamics.

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Video Friday: Robotics After Hours

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We’ll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months; here's what we have so far ( send us your events !): Boston Dynamics put together a behind-the-scenes video of sorts about the Super Bowl commercial they did in collaboration with some beer company or other. Brain Lab ] Thanks, Poramate!

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Video Friday: Ingenuity’s 50th Flight

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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. DARPA’s Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency (RACER) program recently conducted its third experiment to assess the performance of off-road unmanned vehicles. Irwin, California.

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Video Friday: Dark Side Spot

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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. I honestly could not tell you whether this goes against Boston Dynamics' terms of sale or not. What if there was a better way to communicate with learning robots so they can help us? GITAI ] Thanks, Aki!

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Q&A: Inside DARPA’s Subterranean Challenge

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DARPA designed the competition to advance practical robotics in extreme conditions, based around three distinct underground environments: human-made tunnels, the urban underground, and natural caves. A series of three preliminary circuit events would give teams experience with each environment. Evan Ackerman.