Cars That Think
MARCH 28, 2024
At NVIDIA GTC last week, Boston Dynamics CTO Aaron Saunders gave a talk about deploying AI in real world robots—namely, how Spot is leveraging reinforcement learning to get better at locomotion (We spoke with Saunders last year about robots falling over ). It’s very, very good at walking. But that’s changing.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 17, 2019
Stop & Shop is partnering with Robomart to launch driverless grocery vehicle service in the Greater Boston area beginning in Spring 2019. The vehicles will bring a selection of Stop & Shop produce as well as meal kits and convenience items directly to consumers.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 22, 2014
Li-ion battery maker Boston-Power Inc. earlier post ) recently launched its Ensemble Module System; a “kit” of standard components that provides OEMs and pack assemblers with a simple, cost-effective way to assemble large format battery pack solutions for electric vehicle (EV) and energy storage system (ESS) applications.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 21, 2011
Researchers from the Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) have developed and demonstrated secondary (i.e., The team also presented the work at the recent 220 th meeting of the Electrochemical Society (ECS) in Boston. fluoride shuttle (220 th ECS Meeting, Boston, MA, #1353). electrolyte, and paired those with the La 0.9
Green Car Reports
OCTOBER 16, 2017
XL Hybrids carved its niche in the vehicle-electrfication segment by offering hybrid conversion kits for regular gasoline-powered vans, commercial trucks, and pickups. Thus far, the Boston-based start-up has found success and a recent round of venture capital funding raised another $22 million.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 7, 2011
Boston Globe. XL Hybrids , a startup that offers a hybrid conversion system for large fleet vehicles such as vans or Lincoln Town Cars, has raised $2 million in new funding and signed an agreement with Ashwoods Automotive in the UK, the producers of the retrofit kit. Earlier post.). XL had previously raised $1.8
Cars That Think
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
Boston Dynamics ] Traditional AI methods need several weeks, days, or hours to let a walking robot learn to walk. During the practical course, student teams develop solutions for a hide-and-seek challenge in which mobile robots (Boston Dynamics Spot, ANYbotics ANYmal, Clearpath Robotics Husky) must autonomously hide and find each other. [
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