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Notable that Boston Dynamics is now saying that Atlas “gets ready for real work.” Boston Dynamics ] You deserve to be free from endless chores! Starship ] By blending 2D images with foundation models to build 3D feature fields, a new MIT method helps robots understand and manipulate nearby objects with open-ended language prompts.

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SES, which started in 2012 as an MIT research lab startup, is headquartered in Singapore and operates labs and pilot production facilities in Boston and Shanghai, China. Solid Energy and GM plan to establish a lithium metal battery test production plant near Boston by 2023, and are aiming for final commercialization in 2025.

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King Assistant Professor of Metallurgy at MIT, is proposing a direct sulfide electrolysis process to simplify copper extraction and eliminate noxious byproducts. Experience in the aluminum industry shows that it is actually fairly cheap to make the electrolysis device, Allanore said. Antoine Allanore, the Thomas B. Sadoway, John F.

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The funding round was led by The Engine, the venture firm spun out of MIT that invests in early-stage Tough Tech companies. RISE Robotics' co-founders Arron Acosta and Blake Sessions met while at MIT and formed the company with Toomas Sepp and Kyle Dell’Aquila. Energy Information Administration. —Reed Sturtevant.

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MIT CSAIL ] Thanks, Rachel! Boston Dynamics ] Awawa, awawa. [ Agile mobile robots like Spot are transforming condition monitoring with dynamic sensing, so industrial teams can make the most of their predictive maintenance programs. Paper at IROS next week! [ And then we made the winning idea into a real working prototype!

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Starting from the technological building blocks of Atlas, Stretch has the mobility, power, and intelligence to automate the industry’s toughest challenges. Boston Dynamics ] What do the robots do on Halloween after everyone leaves? Join the Ingenuity Labs robots on their trick or treating adventure. Happy Halloween! SMART ITN ] 3 labs.

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MAY 6, 2022

MIT ] The Sechseläuten ("the six o'clock ringing of the bells") is a traditional spring holiday in the Swiss city of Zürich, and this year, it had a slightly less traditional guest: ANYmal! More and more factories are moving to Thailand, hence education plays an important to educate the students in Industry 4.0

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DARPA SubT ] A new control system, designed by researchers in MIT's Improbable AI Lab and demonstrated using MIT's robotic mini cheetah, enables four-legged robots to traverse across uneven terrain in real-time. [ NASA ] What if you could have 100x more information about your industrial sites? SofTech-Rehab ].

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Researchers at the University of Houston’s physics department and the Texas Center for Superconductivity, MIT and Boston College have found that indium-doped tin telluride (SnTe) shows high thermoelectric performance, with a peak figure of merit (ZT) of ?1.1 Ren and his research team arrived at UH in January from Boston College.

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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. It can be used for a range of stationary storage use cases, including utility grids, home storage, microgrids, industrial applications, and more.

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MARCH 17, 2023

Inspired by the hardiness of bumblebees, MIT researchers have developed repair techniques that enable a bug-sized aerial robot to sustain severe damage to the actuators, or artificial muscles, that power its wings—but to still fly effectively. [ MIT ] This robot gripper is called DragonClaw, and do you really need to know anything else?

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The industry standard for dangerous and routine autonomous inspections just got better, now with a brand-new set of features and hardware. Boston Dynamics ] For too long, dogs and vacuums have existed in a state of conflict. But Roomba robots are finally ready to make peace. Now dogs and vacuums can finally be friends.

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GMZ’s material, a nanostructured bismuth antimony telluride, was developed by researchers at Boston College and MIT. GMZ Energy is developing its first product for the $8 billion residential, commercial and industrial solar thermal water market.

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Army Reserve base near Boston, an unusual structure is rising from the rolling hills. Fusion-energy companies have now raised more than US $5 billion, the majority of it since 2021, according to Andrew Holland , the director of the Fusion Industry Association. On the site of a former U.S.

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The selected projects vary in levels of maturity and industry-readiness—from concept definition (focused on specific experimental proof or detailed analysis) to proof-of-concept (requiring physical experimental validation). Boston Electrometallurgical Corporation. Argonne National Laboratory. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

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Skolnik began his career in 1955 at MIT ’s Lincoln Laboratory. While there, he taught a course on radar at Northeastern University , in Boston. He left MIT in 1959 to join Electronic Communications, now part of Raytheon. Picard was chief executive of Raytheon and helped the company become a leader in tactical missile systems.

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Those talks in turn led to a collaboration and an invention: the Boston Arm, an early myoelectric prosthesis. What was the Boston Arm? Discussions between cyberneticist Norbert Wiener [left] and surgeon Melvin Glimcher [right] inspired the Boston Arm. Bose , a professor of electrical engineering at MIT, and Robert W.

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Because robotics requires expertise in many different aspects of both software and hardware, getting a good sense of the present context of Tesla’s robot as well as its future potential means finding perspectives from a multitude of robotics experts, including people working in industry and academia and everywhere in between. BACK TO TOP ↑ ].

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He earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, now Virginia Tech, and received a master's degree in industrial management as a Sloan Fellow at MIT. He was a trustee of Randolph-Macon Woman's College , in Lynchburg, Va. He also was a member of the IEEE–Eta Kappa Nu honor society.

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Eileen Tanghal Employer: Black Opal Ventures, New York City Title: Cofounder Education: MIT, London Business School “We want to improve health care accessibility and affordability,” Tanghal says. “To Empatica (Boston) is developing AI algorithms and wearable sensors to remotely monitor patients for medical conditions.

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The Obama Administration and academic and industry partners announced a series of commitments in support of the Materials Genome Initiative (MGI, earlier post ), a public-private endeavor that aims to cut in half the time it takes to develop novel materials that can fuel advanced manufacturing.

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Henry Ellis Warren was born in Boston on 21 May 1872, a decade before Edison’s Pearl Street Station went online, in New York City, ushering in the dawn of the electric age. He graduated from MIT in 1894 with a degree in electrical engineering, and within the year he (along with his friend George C. electricity lines. Electric Time Co.

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Early utility companies like Boston Edison and New York Edison organized EV fleets, favoring electric trucks for their comparatively capacious batteries. And the auto industry had just canceled the battery EV. At the moment, the auto industry does not have a clear interest in V2G.

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IROS 2021 – September 27-1, 2021 – [Online Event] Robo Boston – October 1-2, 2021 – Boston, MA, USA WearRAcon Europe 2021 – October 5-7, 2021 – [Online Event] ROSCon 2021 – October 20-21, 2021 – [Online Event] Let us know if you have suggestions for next week, and enjoy today's videos, more below! Grey Walter. Kodiak ] Thanks Kylee!

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MARCH 10, 2023

features the Spot robots from Boston Dynamics in relation with human beings. The Honda AWV has the potential to bring greater efficiencies, enhanced workforce productivity, and better environmental performance to the construction industry, and to other industries seeking an autonomous off-road solution.

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It features three human dancers and two Boston Dynamics Spot robots with original music, choreography, and video. This work was created as the culmination of Catie Cuan’s Futurist-in-Residence appointment at the Smithsonian Arts and Industries Building. These robots can handle my muffins anytime.

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With direct funding plus prize money that reached into the millions, DARPA encouraged international collaborations among top academic institutions as well as industry. Team CoSTAR, a collaboration between NASA’s JPL, MIT, Caltech, KAIST, and LTU, inspects the communications-node deployment system on their Husky wheeled robots [top].

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It's been a hectic couple of days, so here are some retired industrial robots quietly drawing lines in sand. Constant Gardener ] via [ RobotStart ] Engineers at MIT and Shanghai Jiao Tong University have designed a soft, lightweight, and potentially low-cost neuroprosthetic hand. During my Ph.D. ANYbotics ] Thanks Cheila!

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Founded in 2006, GMZ commercialized technologies that were developed at the labs of MIT and Boston College, and launched the first commercial high temperature modules overcoming significant challenges in integration and packaged for waste heat applications in cars, furnaces and other industrial applications. Earlier post.).

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Those objections added to the concerns environmentalists were raising about the ozone layer—a scenario seemingly justified a few years later by MIT researchers, who concluded that a future fleet of 500 supersonic airliners would deplete the ozone layer by 16 percent. Senate ceased funding the development of a supersonic airliner in 1971.

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It's been a hectic couple of days, so here are some retired industrial robots quietly drawing lines in sand. Constant Gardener ] via [ RobotStart ] Engineers at MIT and Shanghai Jiao Tong University have designed a soft, lightweight, and potentially low-cost neuroprosthetic hand. During my Ph.D. ANYbotics ] Thanks Cheila!

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Alternative Thinking—Sponsored by HP Visit the Alternative Thinking Resource Center and learn how to solve problems that plague CTOs and those in the IT industry. Also, answer the “Question of the Week” and enter for a chance to win a free full-conference pass to EmTech—the Emerging Technologies Conference at MIT (a $1,795 value).

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Russ Tedrake of Toyota Research Institute (TRI) and MIT pointed to the recent Diffusion Policies paper as showing a similar surprising capability. The output control actions that are sent to a Boston Dynamics Spot robot are very different to those sent to a KUKA iiwa arm. The reason? X percent or higher accuracy and reliability.

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automotive industry. US subsidiary Aramco Services Company’s other research centers are: the Aramco Research Center-Boston, in Cambridge across the street from MIT; and the Aramco Research Center-Houston, in the city’s northwest area Energy Corridor. —Amin H. Nasser, President and CEO, Saudi Aramco.

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Foundation for Skydio’s drones can be traced back to Adam’s work on autonomous agile drones at MIT , and after spending a few years at Google working on Project Wing’s delivery drones , Adam cofounded Skydio in 2014. In the industrial world, it’s entirely different. So is this actually also what you experience?

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The latest prototype lidar system from Analog Photonics shows off its capabilities at a busy intersection in Boston. We and others at our company, Analog Photonics , which spun out of MIT in 2016, hope to break this impasse. While lidar manufacturers have made progress, the industry isn’t there just yet.

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The people who developed the Alto came to Xerox PARC from universities, industrial labs, and commercial ventures, bringing with them diverse experiences and skills. The approach pioneered at PARC only truly thrived in the more open, horizontal, competitive market of the early personal-computer industry. The two were disciples of J.C.R.

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