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Necrobotics: Dead Spiders Reincarnated as Robot Grippers

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Astonishingly mobile, amazingly efficient, super robust, and in some cases, literally dirt cheap. I’ll let you Google whip scorpion on your own because they kind of freak me out, but here’s a picture of a patu digua, with a body measuring about a quarter of a millimeter: Squee! You know what’s even easier than that, though?

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Tony Fadell: The Nest Thermostat Disrupted My Life

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But the technology that I needed to make it happen—reliable low-cost communications, cheap screens and processors—didn’t exist yet. The architects and engineers on the Tahoe project heard me complaining over and over about how insane it was. Nest Gets Googled. In 2014, Google bought Nest for $3.2 That’s right, f ers.

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What Robotics Experts Think of Tesla’s Optimus Robot

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Brandon Rohrer — Machine Learning Engineer, LinkedIn Siddhartha Srinivasa — Director of Robotics and AI, Amazon Mikell Taylor — Principal Technical Program Manager, Amazon Robotics Cynthia Yeung — Founding Board Member, Women in Robotics. What excites me is the idea of cheap and accessible hardware! Roboticist, Google Brain.

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Volkswagen Group invested €11.5B (US$12.9B) in R&D in 2014; ongoing focus on electromobility and digitalization of vehicles

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It may come as a surprise for you, but I highly welcome the interest of Apple, Google and others in the automobile. As a center of automotive engineering and manufacturing, Europe must, for example, drive forward core technologies such as piloted driving with determination and speed. Earlier post.). —Prof. Dr. Martin Winterkorn.

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Lucid Motors chooses Mobileye as partner for autonomous vehicle technology

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Mobileye’s Road Experience Management (REM) is an end-to-end mapping and localization engine. Projection of the map data; on the right side the lanes are mapped onto Google Earth. REM comprises three layers: harvesting agents (any camera-equipped vehicle), map aggregating server (cloud), and map-consuming agents (autonomous vehicle).

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. Flash memory became cheap and robust enough for consumer use by 1995. And few talented engineers wanted to work for a company that seemed to offer little guarantee of long-term employment. The thumb drive was all that—and more.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

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Brooks, who is now working on his third robotics startup, Robust.AI , has written hundreds of articles and half a dozen books and was featured in the motion picture Fast, Cheap & Out of Control. The example I used at the time was, I think it was a Google program labeling an image of people playing Frisbee in the park. More context.

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