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What Robotics Experts Think of Tesla’s Optimus Robot

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The current locomotion stack is not using any machine learning, but rather trajectory optimization using reference controllers. And this could come from behind-the-scenes use cases for robot manipulation, in warehouses, retail stores, food preparation, and manufacturing. Roboticist, Google Brain. Yet to see autonomy. BACK TO TOP ↑ ].

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Video Friday: TRI Expo

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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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Video Friday: Reflex Grasping

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This arrangement provides the dual function of adapting to objects with different geometries, varying surface contact force characteristics, and storing energy in the form of elastic potential. Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics.

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AI and Robots Are a Minefield of Cognitive Biases

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People tend to use the expression “teaching robots” when they refer to programing algorithms. For example, when Boston Dynamics released a video of its engineers kicking a robot , many viewers reacted by saying “this is cruel,” and that they “pity the robot.” Nevertheless, we are used to using anthropomorphized expressions.

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

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The BitBlt software enabled application programs to mix and manipulate rectangular arrays of pixel values in on-screen or off-screen memory, or between the two, combining the pixel values and storing the result in the appropriate bit-map location. Boston, 1988), contains a detailed drawing of a ball mouse. And menu design has evolved.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

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Its essentially a set of rooftop solar photovoltaic panels with batteries built in to store power for use when the suns not out, all to be designed and manufactured by BYD. Historical, current end-of-day data, and splits data provided by Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data. "With better technology, we can reduce the costs.

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