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Making Boston Dynamics’ Robots Dance

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Chatbot Episode 1: Making Boston Dynamics’ Robots Dance Evan Ackerman: I’m Evan Ackerman, and welcome to ChatBot, a robotics podcast from IEEE Spectrum. Monica has worked with Boston Dynamics to choreograph some of their robot videos in which Atlas , Spot , and even Handle dance to songs like Do You Love Me? Monica Thomas: Yeah.

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Q&A: Marc Raibert on the Boston Dynamics AI Institute

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Last week, Hyundai Motor Group and Boston Dynamics announced an initial investment of over $400 million to launch the new Boston Dynamics AI Institute. If we can start by looking back a little bit—what kind of company did you want Boston Dynamics to be when you founded it in 1992? It took a while before we got back to robotics.

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Chatbot: A New Robotics Podcast from IEEE Spectrum

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They come up with the questions, not us, which results in the kinds of robotics conversations you won’t hear anywhere else—uniquely informative, but also surprising and fun. We’re going to try to keep the episodes pretty short, maybe 20 minutes or so, so they’ll be easy to fit into your day.

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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. Software by IHMC Robotics. Onkalo ] And now, this.

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Video Friday: Automotive Artistry

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Boston Dynamics ] The Langley Aerodrome No. NASA ] As social robots become increasingly prevalent in day-to-day environments, they will participate in conversations and appropriately manage the information shared with them. sentiment, relationships, topic) from conversations to model privacy boundaries.

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INRIX launches new platform to connect road authorities with vehicle operators for highly automated vehicles

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While HAVs have greatly improved the ability to operate in complex traffic environments, street signs and lane stripes are an inexact way to communicate rules to a 21 st century vehicle. Self-driving vehicles are stimulating conversations globally, but they are in fact a very local challenge.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Advanced Flow Meter for Extreme Environments (AFMEE), $100,000 MicroNuclear LLC, Franklin, Tenn. Novel chemical looping process for conversion of natural gas to pure hydrogen, $150,000 CanmetENERGY, Ottawa, Canada Glowink Inc., El Centro, Calif. Idaho National Laboratory. Louisville, Colo. National Energy Technology Laboratory.