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JULY 17, 2012

Fleura Bardhi (Northeastern University) and Giana M. University) interviewed users of the Zipcar car sharing service and found that. RelayRides pioneered peer-to-peer car sharing when it launched in Boston in June 2010 and expanded into San Francisco later that year. Eckhardt (Suffolk.

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A prime example is Stretch , a new robot from Boston Dynamics that can move heavy boxes where they need to go just as fast as an experienced warehouse worker. Stretch’s design is somewhat of a departure from the humanoid and quadrupedal robots that Boston Dynamics is best known for, such as Atlas and Spot. No one wants to do receiving.”

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Boston Dynamics ] Im mostly impressed that making contact with that stick doesnt cause the robot to fall over. Robot Studio ] at [ University of Michigan ] Hard to believe that RoMeLa has been developing humanoid robots for 20 (!) My favorite part is 1:40, where Atlas squats down to pick a part up off the ground. Heres to 20 more!

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JULY 31, 2015

TRANSNET project teams will design and test new network optimization approaches, coupled with novel transportation and mobility simulations, to improve the energy efficiency of personal transportation. Project teams will each design a system model that dynamically simulates an urban transportation network and its energy use. 1,576,345.

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JUNE 10, 2025

Dual-use risk is not taught in most universities, despite it being something that students will likely face in their careers, such as when assessing whether their work is subject to export control regulations on dual-use items. Organizing workshops and seminars on dual-use and ethical considerations at robotics conferences and universities.

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MARCH 31, 2015

—Professor Annemarie Schneider from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, lead author. The population maps were developed by the WorldPop team, led by Andy Tatem at the University of Southampton. This study reveals the opposite, and this could change how officials plan and adapt to urbanization in the future.

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There are now more than 270 IEEE-HKN chapters at universities around the world. There are now 30 chapters outside the United States, including ones recently established at universities in Ecuador, Hungary, and India. In October the Nu Theta chapter debuted at Purdue University Northwest in Hammond, Ind.

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And here’s a second video with more technical detail on how the robot works: [ CMU ] Happy Holiday from Boston Dynamics! Boston Dynamics ] Is there a world where Digit can leverage a large language model (LLM) to expand its capabilities and better adapt to our world? This was just presented at the IEEE Humanoids Conference in Austin.

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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! Ascento robot enjoying a day in the ski slopes of Davos. Ascento ] Can’t trip Atlas up! Our humanoid robot gets ready for real work combining strength, perception, and mobility.

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JANUARY 2, 2013

Zipcar now has more than 760,000 members (“Zipsters”), with a market-leading presence in 20 major metropolitan areas in the United States, Canada and Europe, and fleet positioned at more than 300 college and university campuses.

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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! Duco ] Thanks Sai!

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University of Massachusetts, Amherst ] Thanks Julia! Boston Dynamics ] From groceries to last-minute treats, Wing is here to make sure deliveries arrive quickly and safely. ETH Zurich ] A small scene where Rémi, our distinguished professor, is teaching chess to the person remotely operating Reachy!

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This single-leg robot is designed to “form a foundation for future bipedal robot development,” but personally, I think it’s perfect as is. University of Michigan Robotics ] What’s the Trick? Please send us your events for inclusion. KAIST Dynamic Robot Control and Design Lab ] Selling 17,000 social robots still amazes me.

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In the 2010s, while teaching at Tufts University, in Massachusetts, she codeveloped the ScratchJr programming language and KIBO robotics kits, both intended for young children in STEM programs. But they have fun by really being pushed to explore and create and make new things that are personally meaningful.

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Aaron Mueller , who researches language models at Northeastern University in Boston, isn’t surprised SLMs can go toe-to-toe with LLMs in select functions. What’s more interesting, Microsoft’s Phi-3-small, with 7 billion parameters, fared remarkably better than GPT-3.5 in many of these benchmarks.

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CHI 2023 ] This video captures a series of experiments carried out at West Virginia University on how to rescue a stuck planetary rover with another rover. Boston Dynamics ] What can robots actually do.today? Boston Dynamics ] What can robots actually do.today? Can they help the average person beat a high jumper?

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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. They typically connected to it with a teletypewriter, though the most avant-garde users may have employed simple text-only video terminals. The two were disciples of J.C.R.

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She has first-hand experience in education: She taught math and physics in Boston-area high schools. She also served in executive positions in Boston public schools , New York City public schools , and Success Academy charter schools, also in New York City. The 10-year study is being conducted in Arizona.

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After a year of speculation based on little more than a person in a robot suit combined with some optimistic assertions made by Tesla CEO Elon Musk , many roboticists tuned in to the event livestream (or attended in person) to see what Tesla’s approach to humanoid robotics would turn out to be. BACK TO TOP ↑ ]. Animesh Garg.

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Nearly every day since she was a child, Alex Leow, a psychiatrist and computer scientist at the University of Illinois Chicago, has played the piano. Compared to a healthy user [top], a person experiencing symptoms of bipolar disorder [middle] or depression [bottom] may use their phone more than usual and late at night.

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So who was this unknown person? The identity of the person between Solomonoff and Shannon remained a mystery for some time. The Minsky Family Between Solomonoff and Shannon is the unknown person. He assured me that the unknown person was not his father. Grace Solomonoff So the unknown person must be Milner!

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Yet nearly one in three engineering jobs will go unfilled each year through 2030, according to a report from the Boston Consulting Group and SAE International. Unlike more traditional university degrees and course certificates, microcredential programs are not based on successfully completing a full learning program.

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DECEMBER 26, 2022

Koopman led a landmark 17-person trial that tested whether modulating the nervous system’s electrical-signaling patterns could tamp down inflammation and joint pain in RA. The 250-person Reset-RA study, in which half the participants receive no stimulation for the first 12 weeks after implantation, is now evaluating efficacy.

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MARCH 29, 2024

Columbia engineers build Emo, a silicon-clad robotic face that makes eye contact and uses two AI models to anticipate and replicate a person’s smile before the person actually smiles—a major advance in robots predicting human facial expressions accurately, improving interactions, and building trust between humans and robots.

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NSF-supported researchers from New York University, using first-person video from a head-mounted camera, trained AI models to learn language through the eyes and ears of a child. [ Boston Dynamics ] Modular self-reconfigurable robotic systems are more adaptive than conventional systems.

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Constant Gardener ] via [ RobotStart ] Engineers at MIT and Shanghai Jiao Tong University have designed a soft, lightweight, and potentially low-cost neuroprosthetic hand. Boston Dynamics ] This video shows the evolution of a dynamic quadruped robot Panther. During my Ph.D. ElliQ ].

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MAY 31, 2024

This year’s IEEE Vision, Innovation, and Challenges Summit and Honors Ceremony , held on 2 and 3 May in Boston, celebrated pioneers in engineering who have developed technologies that changed people’s lives, such as the Internet and GPS. The event also included a trip to the headquarters of cloud service provider Akamai Technologies.

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MARCH 31, 2023

For her car sharing had subcategories of: Car sharing is expanding our mobility Roundtrip One-Way Personal Vehicle Sharing (which can include fractional ownership models) Then there’s scooter sharing and bike sharing (also with subcategories of public, closed campus and peer-to-peer [P2P]). However, the company pulled the plug on U.S.

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Constant Gardener ] via [ RobotStart ] Engineers at MIT and Shanghai Jiao Tong University have designed a soft, lightweight, and potentially low-cost neuroprosthetic hand. Boston Dynamics ] This video shows the evolution of a dynamic quadruped robot Panther. During my Ph.D. ElliQ ].

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DECEMBER 9, 2024

Aibos Mission: Make History When the Aibo project started in 1994, personal entertainment robots seemed like a natural fit for Sony. Electrolux, based in the United Kingdom, introduced a prototype of its Trilobite robotic vacuum cleaner in 1997, and at iRobot in Boston, Joe Jones was working on what would become the Roomba.

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When we see someone on the street doing backflips, we tend to assume this person would be good at walking and running, and also be flexible and athletic enough to be good at other sports. Very likely, such judgement about this person would not be wrong. A person who can spread jam on bread with a spoon can do the same using a fork.

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It took some 30 years of effort by engineers and computer scientists in universities, government laboratories, and corporate research groups, piggybacking on each other’s work, trying new ideas, repeating each other’s mistakes. brought the friendly interface to thousands of personal computer users. Menus list choices of action.

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CoSTAR’s pack of quadrupeds, consisting of Spot robots from Boston Dynamics modified with customized autonomy payloads [middle], undergo a hardware check before their final competition run. The Spots are wearing “socks” made from cut-up mountain-bike tires, cable ties, and black tape. That’s amazing. It’s a good question!

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EVA Cape Cod forms to promote charging infrastructure EVACC chapter co-founder Matt Scinto and daughter in his Tesla While electric vehicle (EV) chargers may be plentiful in Boston and elsewhere in Massachusetts, the popular tourist destination of Cape Cod is a charging desert. There are lots of new and enthusiastic owners of EVs on the Cape.

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A robotic avatar A robotic avatar system is similar to virtual reality, in that both allow a person located in one place to experience and interact with a different place using technology as an interface. Pratt had led Team IHMC (and a Boston Dynamics Atlas robot) to a second-place finish at the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals in 2015. “I

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Davide Scaramuzza directs the Robotics and Perception group at the University of Zürich. So for example, in a search and rescue mission, a person might have— a search and rescue worker might have very particular context on where somebody is likely to be stuck or maybe be hiding or something that would be very difficult to encode into a drone.

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Dennis Carlberg, chief sustainability officer at Boston University, said, Since the New England Grid is one of the cleanest in the country, and these projects are in grids slower to transition, they should reduce nearly twice the global greenhouse gas emissions than if the same projects were located in the greening New England grid.

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