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MIT Professor’s IoT Sensors Make Roads Safer

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Back in 2005, before smartphones were generally available, MIT Professor Hari Balakrishnan was so fed up with commuting delays in Boston that he built a mobile system to monitor road conditions. It was used in areas where GPS didn’t work well, such as hospitals, office buildings, and research centers. In the final year of his Ph.D.,

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Toyota’s Collaborative Safety Research Center launches 5-year, $35M program on autonomous and connected vehicle technologies

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The new research effort, named CSRC Next, will focus on the challenges and opportunities of autonomous and connected vehicle technologies over the next decade. CSRC is working with the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) and Toyota Connected (TC). —Chuck Gulash, Director of CSRC.

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Bob Kahn on the Birth of “Inter-networking”

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That article didn’t detail the events leading up to their influential technical collaboration, though. Bob Kahn: I got my PhD from Princeton in 1964 and took a job as an assistant professor at MIT in the electrical engineering department. Licklider who came to ARPA from BBN (and MIT before that). I was there for a few years.

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Video Friday: DALL-E 2

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We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. The anthropomorphic features of robots, which are important in building natural user experience and trustable human-robot partnership, have attracted increasing attention. PneuBots ]. CHI 2022 ].

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2023’s Top Stories About Energy

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Welcome to Fusion City, USA At Helion Energy, workers build a section of the company’s Polaris fusion reactor. Such a condenser is essentially a large synchronous machine that spins freely; however, a flywheel connected to its shaft can store kinetic energy. Harry Campbell Fusion is the power source of the future—and it always will be.

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Ford showcasing vehicle-to-vehicle communication for crash avoidance; potential for leveraging WiFi and smartphones to extend quickly the number of participating vehicles

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At the “Forward with Ford” event held in June—a conference exploring the linkage of Ford vehicles and technologies to global consumer trends—the company showcased its work on vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications with a focus on crash avoidance. US DOT Connected Vehicles Research. Click to enlarge.

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Q&A: Inside DARPA’s Subterranean Challenge

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A series of three preliminary circuit events would give teams experience with each environment. Six months later, at the Urban Circuit event, held at an unfinished nuclear power station in Satsop, Wash., Six months later, at the Urban Circuit event, held at an unfinished nuclear power station in Satsop, Wash., Evan Ackerman.