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MAY 21, 2012
developer of a low-cost hybrid electric powertrain designed specifically for class 1-3 commercial fleet use ( earlier post ), has signed an agreement with Henley Transmission Services, LLC, the largest franchise holder of AAMCO automotive service centers, to certify AAMCO technicians to install and service XL Hybrids’ hybrid-electric conversions.
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FEBRUARY 23, 2024
Automatic design of stigmergy-based behaviors for robot swarms,” by Muhammad Salman, David Garzón Ramos, and Mauro Birattari, is published in the journal Communications Engineering. Robot built by Boston Dynamics for the DARPA Robotics Challenge in 2013. MIT ] Lex Fridman interviews Marc Raibert. [ Cool, right? Lex Fridman ]
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SEPTEMBER 9, 2013
Researchers at the University of Houston’s physics department and the Texas Center for Superconductivity, MIT and Boston College have found that indium-doped tin telluride (SnTe) shows high thermoelectric performance, with a peak figure of merit (ZT) of ?1.1 Ren and his research team arrived at UH in January from Boston College.
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MAY 6, 2022
MIT ] The Sechseläuten ("the six o'clock ringing of the bells") is a traditional spring holiday in the Swiss city of Zürich, and this year, it had a slightly less traditional guest: ANYmal! Our engineers design the mechanical, electrical, firmware, robotics, and software components that power ultra-precise mobile printers.
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OCTOBER 22, 2021
DARPA SubT ] A new control system, designed by researchers in MIT's Improbable AI Lab and demonstrated using MIT's robotic mini cheetah, enables four-legged robots to traverse across uneven terrain in real-time. [ Dynamic sensing unlocks flexible and reliable data capture for improved site awareness, safety, and efficiency.
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JUNE 9, 2023
Boston Dynamics ] For too long, dogs and vacuums have existed in a state of conflict. This is an example of bridging the conversational nature of Chat GPT and other LLMs to generate real-world physical action. They set their record with a chain of 334 self-designed robots. But Roomba robots are finally ready to make peace.
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JUNE 25, 2012
XL Hybrids’ hybrid electric powertrain is a low-cost, low-risk, bolt-on, post-transmission parallel hybrid technology designed for Class 1–3 commercial vehicles that integrates seamlessly with the conventional internal combustion engine and transmission. The system is designed to be installed in about 4 hours, faster at a commercial upfitter.
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