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Video Friday: Resilient Bugbots

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Skydio ] Voxel robots have been extensively simulated because they’re easy to simulated, but not extensively built because they’re hard to build. We propose Kinodynamic Fabrics as an approach for the specification, solution and simultaneous execution of multiple motion tasks in real-time while being reactive to dynamism in the environment.

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Using Manga to Spark Interest in STEM

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The idea for Sher-DeCusatis’s second comic, she says, came from a personal experience she had while volunteering for IEEE. At the end of the lesson, students had to build a paper plane and throw it at a target. High school student Julia Griffin wanted her comic to encourage youngsters to protect the environment.

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Ford, GM rolling out third-party developer programs for in-vehicle apps

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The Ford Developer Program for open mobile apps provides a software development kit (SDK), technical support from Ford engineers and a developer community to enable utilizing the SYNC connectivity system and AppLink application programming interface (API). Ford Developer Program.

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Mercedes-Benz S-Class INTELLIGENT DRIVE drives autonomously over 100km interurban and urban route with near-production technology

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The required algorithms were developed by the Mercedes-Benz research team in collaboration with the Institute for Measuring and Control Technology at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Another camera looks towards the back through the rear window to locate the vehicle with reference to known environment features. PROMETHEUS.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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Networks that link personal computers in offices. The Open Environment and How It Changed PARC started with a small nucleus—perhaps fewer than 20 people. A later version of that tester, based on an Alto personal computer, also developed at PARC, ended up being used by Intel itself on its production line. Laser printers.

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Video Friday: Mini Pupper

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The basic kit is $250, which includes just the custom parts, so you'll need to add your own 3D printed parts, some of the electronics, and the battery. A complete Mini Pupper kit is $500, or get it fully assembled for an extra $60. When you can't have robots fight each other in person because pandemic, you have to get creative.

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Never Recharge Your Consumer Electronics Again?

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So we had to build on just constant failing, but it’s okay because you’re in a research phase. So in the end, we had to build our own machine building capacity here. We’re like 50 guys building machines, so. We are now building the largest solar cell factory— one of the largest solar cell factories in Europe.