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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! The idea behind Atlas' behavior libraries is that they can be reused in new environments.

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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. 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.

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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. The GITAI robots have successfully passed various tests corresponding to Level 4 of NASA’s Technology Readiness Levels (TRL) in a simulated lunar environment in the desert. GITAI ] Thanks, Sho!

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Study finds short-term exposure to air pollution may impede cognition; NSAIDs could help

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Examples of events that would increase someone’s exposure to air pollution over the short term could include forest fires, smog, second-hand cigarette smoke, charcoal grills, and gridlock traffic. Air pollution levels were obtained from a site in Boston. The results are published in the journal Nature Aging. Elevated average PM2.5

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Video Friday: Drones in Trees

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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. How can we bring limbed robots into real world environments to complete challenging tasks. Our goal is to enable quadrupedal robots to safely navigate in cluttered environments.