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Video Friday: ICRA Turns 40

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By Adam Hung, Uksang Yoo, Jonathan Francis, Jean Oh, and Jeffrey Ichnowski from CMU Robotics Insittute [ Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute ] Suction-based robotic grippers are common in industrial applications due to their simplicity and robustness, but [they] struggle with geometric complexity. Kowalewski, Chad C.

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The Top 10 Semiconductor Stories of 2023

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Universities Are Building a Semiconductor Workforce Peter Adams With the U.S. As long-time contributor Prachi Patel reports, universities across the United States, especially those near fab construction projects, are revamping their semiconductor education offerings in response.

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Big Science tools for clean transportation: neutron scattering at ORNL

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research facilities for scientists from universities, industry, and other laboratories, as well as to ORNL researchers: Building Technologies Research and Integration Center (BTRIC). The SNS has plans for a second cluster of instruments in a new building to be built alongside the existing facility. Instrument. Instrument.

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A $275 Bus Ticket to the Hamptons

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(Each bus cost about a million dollars to buy and outfit, said Chad Scarborough, the founder of the Jet.) Hechter, a recent graduate of Syracuse University, has occasionally taken Ambassador buses, which offer passengers free wine and coffee, but said she preferred taking Jitney buses because they are less expensive. “If

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Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice?

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Coast Guard To verify the caller’s identity and solve the apparent crime, the Coast Guard’s investigative service emailed the files to Rita Singh , a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University and author of the textbook Profiling Humans From Their Voice (Springer, 2019). Singh did not build a profile from an unidentified voice.

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COVID-19 Forced Us All to Experiment. What Have We Learned?

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We propose to build on this foundation and find a way to learn not just from crises but even during the crisis itself. Photo-Illustration: Chad Hagen; Original Photo: Bettmann/Getty Images. Photo-Illustration: Chad Hagen; Original Photo: Tao Images/Alamy. firms have invested in new digital capabilities.

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IBM’s Fall From World Dominance

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He's currently a senior research fellow at the University of Minnesota's Charles Babbage Institute , where he specializes in the history of technology. We're back with my guest Jim Cortada, a senior research fellow at the University of Minnesota's Charles Babbage Institute and author of a comprehensive corporate history of IBM.

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