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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. Robot built by Boston Dynamics for the DARPA Robotics Challenge in 2013. RozenZebet ] Hawkeye is a real time multimodal conversation and interaction agent for the Boston Dynamics’ mobile robot Spot.

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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: 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: $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. Boston Dynamics ] Modular self-reconfigurable robotic systems are more adaptive than conventional systems.

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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.

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V2G is the key to the popularity of electric vehicles

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A professional from a Boston consulting service said, “If these vehicles are connected to the grid for charging at the same time, the grid will collapse.” V2G technology also has the potential to bring new revenue streams to automakers as they become more connected to the grid.