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Boston Dynamics’ Founder on the Future of Robotics

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Marc Raibert Raibert was a professor at Carnegie Mellon and MIT before founding Boston Dynamics in 1992. At the Institute, you’re starting to share your vision for the future of robotics more than you did at Boston Dynamics. Marc Raibert was a professor at Carnegie Mellon and MIT before founding Boston Dynamics in 1992.

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Researchers from MIT and Sun Catalytix develop an artificial leaf for solar water splitting to produce hydrogen and oxygen

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Researchers led by MIT professor Daniel Nocera have produced an “artificial leaf”—a solar water-splitting cell producing hydrogen and oxygen that operates in near-neutral pH conditions, both with and without connecting wires. The cells were operated in a two-electrode cell configuration. (B) Reece et al. Click to enlarge.

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#EVmyValentine: Your Creative Odes to Electric Vehicles

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of Energy to Yale and MIT , that EVs are better for the environment from cradle to grave.) We’re pushing for strong clean car standards because they put us on a path to a zero-emission future–one that’s better for all of us. The fuel is cheap, The maintenance low, No emissions, It’s fast, not slow.

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Pneumatic Actuators Give Robot Cheetah-Like Acceleration

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If you go back far enough, to the 1980s, when Marc Raibert was developing dynamic legged robots at MIT, those running and jumping robots were relying on pneumatics rather than hydraulics, because pneumatics were much easier to implement. While this would be awesome, that was never the intention for Kemba.

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The Turbulent Past and Uncertain Future of Artificial Intelligence

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Yes, it's possible that we're in for yet another AI winter in the not-so-distant future. In 1967, MIT professor. But the cheap computers that supplanted expert systems turned out to be a boon for the connectionists, who suddenly had access to enough computer power to run neural networks with many layers of artificial neurons.

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What Robotics Experts Think of Tesla’s Optimus Robot

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Because robotics requires expertise in many different aspects of both software and hardware, getting a good sense of the present context of Tesla’s robot as well as its future potential means finding perspectives from a multitude of robotics experts, including people working in industry and academia and everywhere in between. BACK TO TOP ↑ ].

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Optimus: The Tesla Bot Here’s What We Know…Or, At Least Been Shown

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Given Tesla’s degree of mechanical ability, we can expect these to be completely adequate, but nothing here is crazy small, cheap, efficient, powerful, or anything else. Not noteworthy, but Tesla must manufacture its actuators if it requires a large number of them, which it allegedly will. The Hurdles.

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