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Boston is going is going big on installing curbside EV chargers

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Photo: Itselectric Boston is EV-friendly, but it needs more accessible chargers, so it’s going to install hundreds of public curbside EV chargers. I’ve had to use my credit card to get into a parking garage in Boston to fast charge, and it’s a real pain.) They can then plug and charge at any Itselectric charger in Boston and beyond.

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Stop & Shop, Robomart to launch teleoperated driverless grocery vehicles in Boston this spring

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Stop & Shop is partnering with Robomart to launch driverless grocery vehicle service in the Greater Boston area beginning in Spring 2019. Stop & Shop customers in the Boston area can summon a Robomart vehicle with a smartphone app. When finished shopping, they just close the doors and send the vehicle on its way.

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Making Boston Dynamics’ Robots Dance

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Chatbot Episode 1: Making Boston Dynamics’ Robots Dance Evan Ackerman: I’m Evan Ackerman, and welcome to ChatBot, a robotics podcast from IEEE Spectrum. Monica has worked with Boston Dynamics to choreograph some of their robot videos in which Atlas , Spot , and even Handle dance to songs like Do You Love Me? Monica Thomas: Yeah.

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Q&A: Marc Raibert on the Boston Dynamics AI Institute

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Last week, Hyundai Motor Group and Boston Dynamics announced an initial investment of over $400 million to launch the new Boston Dynamics AI Institute. If we can start by looking back a little bit—what kind of company did you want Boston Dynamics to be when you founded it in 1992? It took a while before we got back to robotics.

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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. Greene was a guest lecturer for an introduction to engineering course at the Wentworth Institute of Technology , also in Boston. “If

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Honda begins joint research with Boston University in information security for AI; secure MPC

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Honda Research Institute (HRI), a Honda R&D subsidiary, and Boston University have agreed to begin joint research in the area of data security and privacy for artificial intelligence (AI) research. In order to enable AI to cooperate with people, personal information about the users must be collected and analyzed. Honda noted.

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Li-ion maker Boston Power secures US$290M from two local Chinese governments for expansion

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Li-ion maker Boston Power has secured US$290 million in local government financial support for the expansion of its two facilities in China. The expansion of these facilities will allow Boston Power to meet the growing demand by leading Chinese automakers in the Yangtze River Delta and throughout the Bohai Gulf in Northern China.

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