Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

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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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

nuTonomy , developer of software for self-driving cars, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the City of Boston and the Massachusetts Department of Transportation that authorizes nuTonomy to begin testing its growing fleet of self-driving cars on specific public streets in a designated area of Boston. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2010

NASA has selected selected Boston-Power’s Swing battery system ( earlier post ) as a part of Project M—a proposed project to land an operational humanoid robot on the moon in 1,000 days. Boston-Power is delivering a 2.5kWh energy storage system which includes its Swing cells as well as an integrated battery management system.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2021

—Philip Landrigan, director of Boston College’s Global Observatory on Pollution and Health. Air pollution was responsible for 1.1 Deaths attributable to household air pollution and ambient particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) air pollution in Ethiopia, Ghana, Rwanda, and overall in Africa, 1990–2019. billion in 2020 to 4.3 billion by 2100.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 11, 2024

Last December, the AI Institute announced that it was opening an office in Zurich as a European counterpart to its Boston headquarters and recruited Marco Hutter to helm the office. Hutter: If you look at Boston Dynamics’ Atlas doing parkour, or ANYmal doing parkour, these are still demonstrations. Do you feel the same?

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 17, 2021

Boston Dynamics has just posted a couple of new videos showing their Atlas humanoid robot doing some of the most impressive parkour we've yet seen. Parkour is the perfect sandbox for the Atlas team at Boston Dynamics to experiment with new behaviors. Let's watch! This is a pretty big deal.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2019

The award furthers MBTA efforts to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions while establishing safe and reliable transportation for the greater Boston area. MBTA is the public agency responsible for operating most public transportation services in Greater Boston, Massachusetts. The Xcelsior CHARGE buses offer a total capacity of 120-passengers.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 17, 2024

Boston Dynamics has just introduced a new Atlas humanoid robot , replacing the legendary hydraulic Atlas and intended to be a commercial product. We talked with Playter about what the heck took Boston Dynamics so long to make this robot, what the vision is for Atlas as a product, all that extreme flexibility, and what comes next.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 27, 2020

billion (US) in economic losses, according to a new study led by researchers from the Global Observatory on Pollution and Health at Boston College, the Indian Council of Medical Research, and the Public Health Foundation of India. —lead researcher Boston College Professor of Biology Philip J. Air pollution in India resulted 1.67

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 23, 2023

With Boston Dynamics’ recent(ish) emphasis on making robots that can do things that are commercially useful , it’s always good to be gently reminded that the company is still at the cutting edge of dynamic humanoid robotics. Or in this case, forcefully reminded.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2011

BMW of North America and Coulomb Technologies announced that drivers of the BMW ActiveE all-electric vehicle ( earlier post ) will be able to take advantage of the expansion of the ChargePoint Network into the Boston Metro area. The charging stations will be located in the Boston metropolitan area, primarily within the Route 495 Beltway.

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Green Energy Consumers

AUGUST 12, 2022

Last week, the Environment Council of Rhode Island (ECRI) hosted a forum for candidates running RI Governor to discuss their plans for the environment if elected. The forum covered several of Rhode Island’s most pressing environmental issues, including environmental justice and implementation of the Act On Climate.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2021

The researchers examined the relationship between exposures to fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) and black carbon, a component of PM, and cognitive performance in 954 older white males from the Greater Boston Area enrolled in the Normative Aging Study. Air pollution levels were obtained from a site in Boston. Elevated average PM2.5

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

Data compiled by Euromonitor for European research and campaign group Transport & Environment (T&E) shows a surge in the number of Uber drivers (officially registered as private hire vehicles - PHV) in the past few years. Evolution of taxi drivers, PHV drivers (England), and Uber drivers (London) compared to taxi and PHV CO 2 emissions (UK).

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Teslarati

JUNE 28, 2022

As noted by Uber in a recent press release , drivers in 30+ cities such as Los Angeles, Houston, Boston, Chicago, Atlanta, and Miami are able to rent a Tesla through its partnership with Hertz. This included Manuel Barros of Boston, a driver with 31 years of experience behind the wheel.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 24, 2023

GITAI conducted a demonstration of lunar base construction using two GITAI inchworm-type robotic arms and two GITAI Lunar Robotic Rovers in a simulated lunar environment and successfully completed all planned tasks. Meet Fifi, a software engineering team lead at Boston Dynamics. Please send us your events for inclusion.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2021

Overseas, the Group plans to have EV charging infrastructure optimized for market-specific environments with various partners, including IONITY, Europe’s leading high-power charging network in which the Group made a strategic investment. Moreover, the Group will accelerate the creation of a hydrogen energy ecosystem.

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JANUARY 20, 2023

IEEE RO-MAN 2023 : 28–31 August 2023, BUSAN, KOREA RoboCup 2023 : 4–10 July 2023, BORDEAUX, FRANCE CLAWAR 2023 : 2–4 October 2023, FLORIANOPOLIS, BRAZIL RSS 2023 : 10–14 July 2023, DAEGU, KOREA ICRA 2023 : 29 May–2 June 2023, LONDON Robotics Summit & Expo : 10–11 May 2023, BOSTON Enjoy today’s videos! ETH Zurich ] Thanks, Stefano!

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MARCH 31, 2023

Boston Dynamics ] Thanks, Renee! Boston Dynamics ] KAIST has developed a quadrupedal robot locomotion technology that moves up and down stairs without the aid of visual or tactile sensors in a disaster situation where it is impossible to see due to smoke and moves without falling over bumpy environments such as tree roots.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

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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MARCH 29, 2024

A challenging aspect of this coexistence is that the robot is required to reliably solve complex path-planning problems in a dynamically changing environment. To ensure the safety of the human operator while simultaneously achieving efficient task realization, this paper introduces. Paper ] Thanks, Kelly!

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NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Boston Dynamics ] What do the robots do on Halloween after everyone leaves? Current robotic systems focus on avoiding unexpected contact, often relying on strategically placed environment sensors. Discover how we put our expertise in robotics research to use designing, testing, and deploying a warehouse robot. Happy Halloween!

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OCTOBER 4, 2023

Episode 1: Making Boston Dynamics' Robots Dance A new podcast from IEEE Spectrum, where award-winning robotics reporter and editor Evan Ackerman pairs up leading experts to pose the kind of questions no-one can ask.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2014

The five safety recommendations, all addressed to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), are derived from the ongoing investigation of the 7 January 2013, fire event that occurred in a lithium-ion battery on a Boeing 787 that was parked at Boston Logan Airport. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2019

CCI is a statewide initiative that puts billions of Cap-and-Trade dollars to work reducing greenhouse gas emissions, strengthening the economy, and improving public health and the environment, particularly in disadvantaged communities, low-income communities, and low-income households.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Boston Dynamics ] Digit's engineered to be a multipurpose machine. Meaning, it needs to be able to perform a collection of tasks in practically any environment. Then we help the robot perceive its surroundings, understand its surroundings, then reason a best course of action to navigate its environment and accomplish its task.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2018

Researchers examined 1,293 mothers and their children who were part of the large, ongoing Boston Birth Cohort study. in the environment. High blood pressure during childhood often leads to high blood pressure in adulthood and hypertension is the leading cause of cardiovascular disease. —Noel T. Mueller, Ph.D.,

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CN EV Post

APRIL 4, 2023

Samsung SDI opened SDI R&D Europe (SDIRE) in Munich last July and SDI R&D America (SDIRA) in Boston last August. The Chinese research arm will complete the company's worldwide network, the report noted.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 4, 2024

Photo: Alsym Energy Boston-based Alsym Energy, which is developing a nonflammable rechargeable battery that’s cobalt and lithium-free, has announced a $78 million funding round. Alsym Energy will use the funds to grow its Boston-based team and expand its prototyping and pilot lines.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2021

The inability of a typical deep learning program to perform well on more than one task, for example, severely limits application of the technology to specific tasks in rigidly controlled environments. ART’s networks are derived from thought experiments on how people and animals interact with their environment, he adds.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2020

The Northwestern team, with colleagues from Boston University and the NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton combined climate modeling with public health data to evaluate the impact of electric vehicles on US lives and the economy. The open-access paper is published in AGU’s journal GeoHealth.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2017

The collaborative R&D effort will take place in Boston, MA, where nuTonomy has been testing its self-driving electric cars since the beginning of the year. The tests are being conducted in Boston’s Raymond L. —Karl Iagnemma, CEO and Co-founder of nuTonomy. Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2016

In partially automated driving mode, the trip will include stops in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Seattle, Chicago, Detroit, Boston, New York, Miami, San Antonio and San Diego. Using the collected data, the scanner creates a map of the environment allowing it to analyze and anticipate events around the vehicle.

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APRIL 21, 2023

Inspired by the adaptable nature of organic brains, researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have introduced a method for robust flight navigation agents to master vision-based fly-to-target tasks in intricate, unfamiliar environments. Boston Dynamics ] What can robots actually do.today?

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

The new joint venture will be led by Karl Iagnemma, President, Aptiv Autonomous Mobility and headquartered in Boston, with technology centers across the United States and Asia, including Korea. —Euisun Chung, Executive Vice Chairman, Hyundai Motor Group. out-of-five stars.

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MARCH 17, 2023

We propose Kinodynamic Fabrics as an approach for the specification, solution and simultaneous execution of multiple motion tasks in real-time while being reactive to dynamism in the environment. Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. ARL ] Thanks, Kostas!

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

The collaboration significantly facilitated the adaptation of repair facilities for FCEVs by assuring a safe repair environment. Toyota and KPA plan additional adaptation of dealership repair facilities, notably in the Northeast corridor between Boston and New York City.

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