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Video Friday: High Mobility Logistics

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Throughout the course of the past year, LEVA has been designed from the ground up as a novel robot to transport payloads. Although the use of robotics is widespread in logistics, few solutions offer the capability to efficiently transport payloads both in controlled and unstructured environments.

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FTA awards almost $16.6M to coordinate fuel cell bus research

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million to the Center for Transportation and the Environment in Atlanta and $10.17 Partners: CTE, Atlanta, GA; Ohio State ,Columbus, OH; Design Line, Charlotte, NC; Ballard Power Systems, Lowell, MA. US Federal Transit Administration is awarding $6.42 ECO Saver IV Hybrid Electric Fuel Cell Bus Demonstration. Amount: $1,667,408.

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Camber Ridge opening $60M tire testing facility with 0.5-mile oval indoor track

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The facility aims to offer all the advantages of testing real tires on real surfaces, but with the precision, environmental control and repeatability of a laboratory environment. The new facility is located in Charlotte, North Carolina, in the midst of the region’s growing automotive research and manufacturing cluster.

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Video Friday: Tiny Robot Bug Hops and Jumps

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MIT ] CubiX is a wire-driven robot that connects to the environment through wires, with drones used to establish these connections. Dexterity Robotics ] I am utterly charmed by the design of this little robot. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.

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Video Friday: Atlas in the Lab

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Were designing the worlds most dynamic humanoid robot to do anything and everything, but we get there one step at a time. However, conventional designs feature a limited number of joints. Last year, we unveiled the new Atlasfaster, stronger, more compact, and less messy. ReachBot ]

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Video Friday: RIVR Delivers Your Package

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Suzumori Endo Lab ] No matter the vehicle, traditional control systems struggle when unexpected challengeslike damage, unforeseen environments, or new missionspush them beyond their design limits. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.

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Video Friday: Robot Boxing

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The XHAND1 features 12 active degrees of freedom, pioneering an industry-first fully direct-drive joint design. Flexiv ] How can we ensure robots using foundation models, such as large language models (LLMs), wont hallucinate when executing tasks in complex, previously unseen environments? Please send us your events for inclusion.