Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2011

Taxi Medallion Management in Chicago has purchased 12 Ford Transit Connect Taxis running on compressed natural gas (CNG) for its fleet. The first taxi was delivered to Boston Cab Dispatch in December 2010. The cabs will be affiliated with Yellow Cab Chicago and bear the company’s logo and color.

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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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FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Robot built by Boston Dynamics for the DARPA Robotics Challenge in 2013. Boston Dynamics ] This is pretty cool: BruBotics is testing their self-healing robotics gripper technology on commercial grippers from Festo. Boston Dynamics ] Software by IHMC Robotics. Paper ] via [ BruBotics ] Thanks, Bram!

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2016

This order for 32 units follows an order last year from the Boston-area transit company for 35 units that were commissioned in September 2015. When put in service, the buses will provide an immediate positive impact on the environment due to the reduced emissions of the system. Earlier post.) Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

The joint venture will begin testing fully driverless systems in 2020 and have a production-ready autonomous driving platform available for robotaxi providers, fleet operators, and automotive manufacturers in 2022. —Euisun Chung, Executive Vice Chairman, Hyundai Motor Group. out-of-five stars.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2019

The technology allows the city to convert the fleet into part-time electric buses as an intermediate step to full electrification. This technology helps San Francisco get one step closer to full zero emissions operations, improving the health of the city’s environment and its residents. Initial SF Muni Green Zone routes.

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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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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

In December of 2021 at the mock lunar surface environment in JAXA’s Sagamihara Campus, the GITAI lunar robotic rover R1 conducted numerous tasks and mobility operations, successfully completing all planned tests. This is cool looking, but I'd need to know more about how this system can deal with an actual lunar environment, right?

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2009

The onroad systems include three automobiles—(2005 Toyota Camry), SUV (2005 Chevrolet Trailblazer), and pickup (2005 Ford F-150) to represent the range in the US automobile fleet and critical performance—and two urban buses with off-peak and peak passenger loadings. Chester and Horvath. 4 024008 doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/4/2/024008.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

It's less of a dig and more of an acknowledgement that getting mobile manipulators to usefully operate in semi-structured environments has been, and continues to be, a huge challenge. It might be effective when constrained to a research environment, but fundamentally, "platform" typically means "getting it to do (commercially?)

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Previously, our team was unique with our Boston Dynamic legged mobility. We're very fortunate to have an extensive site here at our CSIRO lab in Brisbane that has enabled us to construct quite varied tests for our full fleet of robots. Our fleet consists of two of each of these three platform types. We shall see!

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APRIL 14, 2023

DARPA’s Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency (RACER) program recently conducted its third experiment to assess the performance of off-road unmanned vehicles. Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. Please send us your events for inclusion.

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MARCH 3, 2023

HRI 2023 : 13–16 March 2023, STOCKHOLM Robotics Summit & Expo : 10–11 May 2023, BOSTON ICRA 2023 : 29 May–2 June 2023, LONDON RoboCup 2023 : 4–10 July 2023, BORDEAUX, FRANCE RSS 2023 : 10–14 July 2023, DAEGU, KOREA IEEE RO-MAN 2023 : 28–31 August 2023, BUSAN, KOREA CLAWAR 2023 : 2–4 October 2023, FLORIANOPOLIS, BRAZIL Enjoy today’s videos!

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Boston Dynamics ] Wing drone deliveries of NHS blood samples are now underway in London between Guy’s and St Thomas’ hospitals. Taking its name from the massive “winged” fish, Manta Ray will operate long-duration, long-range missions in ocean environments where humans can’t go.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Louis, Rivian and Amazon have expanded their fleet of EDVs to over 1,000 units present in more than 100 cities across the United States. “Fleet electrification is essential to reaching the world’s zero-emissions goal,” Rivian’s Chief Growth Officer Jiten Behl said. “So,

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APRIL 24, 2022

DARPA designed the competition to advance practical robotics in extreme conditions, based around three distinct underground environments: human-made tunnels, the urban underground, and natural caves. A series of three preliminary circuit events would give teams experience with each environment. IEEE Spectrum. Can you talk about that?

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JULY 22, 2023

Boston Dynamics, developer of the Spot and Atlas robots, may have been the first company to be accused of “ robot abuse ” because of its videos, and the company frequently includes footage of its research robots being unsuccessful as well as successful on YouTube. This is a relatively recent development.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

Around the same time, however, General Motors and other automakers were in the process of decommissioning their battery EV fleets, the key component of V2G. At the turn of the 20th century, utilities promoted the use of electric truck fleets to soak up excess electricity. Those applications will require institutional fleets of EVs.

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MAY 28, 2024

Developing a general-purpose robot, one that can competently and robustly execute a wide variety of tasks of interest in any home or office environment that humans can, has been perhaps the holy grail of robotics since the inception of the field. This means operating in any possible home, factory, or office building it might find itself in.

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Electra Vehicles

APRIL 13, 2021

Download the full press release here: Boston, MA - April 13, 2021 - Electra Vehicles, Inc., With this partnership, MathWorks reaffirms its leadership in the computing and simulations environment by offering novel and fully integrated solutions for eMobility like the EnPower Design Suite.".

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MAY 13, 2022

According to the Boston Consulting Group, the average utility can gain between US$3-$10 billion in new value. Partner with automakers, fleet operators, charge point operators, parking lot owners and others. Strategic partnerships. Customer-facing. Provide home and public charging stations. Managing the Infrastructure.

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APRIL 16, 2009

Home Page Todays Paper Video Most Popular Times Topics Search All NYTimes.com Energy & Environment World U.S. Electric cars and a smart electric grid have a bright future, according to panelists at a roundtable discussion on the subject that I attended last Friday in Boston. “I ’s power generation, he said. — t_F 10.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 22, 2025

The nonprofit Tourism Cares has created a meaningful travel map that features organizations, accommodations and tours that are designed to have a positive impact on communities and the environment. Travelers should be wary of green-washing and ethics washing, Ms. Frontier Airlines plans to introduce first-class seating.

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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.

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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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Cars That Think

JUNE 20, 2025

We’ve been training models and evaluating their capabilities for dexterous sensorimotor policies across different embodiments, environments, and physical interactions. Designed to perform tasks flexibly like a human while delivering high power output, ARMstrong Dex is capable of handling complex operations in hazardous environments.

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Blink Charging

JUNE 23, 2022

For example, New York hopes to have a fully electric fleet by 2035, and in April of 2022, New York Governor Kathy Hochul agreed to a $220 billion state budget with legislators, including a plan to make the state’s approximately 50,000 school buses 100% electric by 2035.

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