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IEEE’s Honor Society Gave This Boston University Student Tools to Succeed

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As a member of the Kappa Sigma chapter at Boston University , he learned leadership and communications skills while accepting different roles. candidate in computational imaging at BU, Greene continues to be involved with the honor society by mentoring grad students and organizing events to engage alumni. Now a Ph.D.

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Q&A: Boston Dynamics on Atlas’s Parkour Skills

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Yesterday's video from Boston Dynamics showing a pair of Atlas robots doing parkour together is already up to nearly 3 million views, and for good reason. And happily, Boston Dynamics had answers! After several iterations of Atlas, how much bioinspired design do you think is the right amount?

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Video Friday: Your Robot Dog

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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 !): Robot choreography by Boston Dynamics and Monica Thomas. Boston Dynamics ] DeKonBot 2: for when you want things really, really, really, slowly clean. CMU RI ].

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Deep Learning Can’t be Trusted Brain Modelling Pioneer Says

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Grossberg—an endowed professor of cognitive and neural systems, and of mathematics and statistics, psychological and brain sciences, and biomedical engineering at Boston University —based ART on his theories about how the brain processes information.

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Video Friday: Beyond the Limit

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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 a new study, engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder debuted mCLARI, a 2-centimeter-long modular robot that can passively change its shape to squeeze through narrow gaps in multiple directions.

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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. 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.

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Video Friday: Lunar Base

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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. Meet Fifi, a software engineering team lead at Boston Dynamics. As weird as this looks, it’s designed to reduce the burden on caregivers by automating tooth brushing. Paper ] Thanks, Van!

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