Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

In December of 2021 at the mock lunar surface environment in JAXA’s Sagamihara Campus, the GITAI lunar robotic rover R1 conducted numerous tasks and mobility operations, successfully completing all planned tests. This is cool looking, but I'd need to know more about how this system can deal with an actual lunar environment, right?

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Volocopter ] What if we race three commercially available quadruped robots for a bit of fun.? GITAI ] This Maryland Robotics Center seminar is from CMU’s Vickie Webster-Wood: “It’s Alive! Such robotic systems have future applications in medicine, search and rescue, and environmental monitoring of sensitive environments (e.g.,

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Boston Dynamics put together a behind-the-scenes video of sorts about the Super Bowl commercial they did in collaboration with some beer company or other. YouTube ] The Apellix Opus X8 Softwash (SW) system cleaning the University of Florida Shands Hospital building in Jacksonville, Florida. CMU RI ].

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FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Flexiv’s Grav Enhanced gripper uses a gecko adhesive, which has historically been difficult to do in a commercial context. What are the challenges remaining to get us to truly autonomous vehicles in any environment, and what are the important distinctions for military use as compared to consumer use? It was July 2001. CMU RI ]

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2014

VoA made the announcement at the Management Briefing Seminar, hosted by the Center for Automotive Research. —Oliver Schmidt, general manager, Environment and Engineering Office, Volkswagen Group of America. 3Degrees and carbon offsets.

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MAY 20, 2022

I am not a fan of this ElliQ commercial. This week’s GRASP on Robotics seminar is from Katherine Kuchenbecker at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, on haptics and physical human-robot interaction. “A This kite-powered drone is blowing my mind. Kite Propulsion ]. Tertill ]. Drone Days ]. Drone Days ].

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