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Paying Tribute to Computer Science Pioneer Frederick Brooks, Jr.

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Although commercially unsuccessful, Stretch inspired technologies used in inventions such as instruction pipelining and memory interleaving. That same year, Brooks was tasked with leading the development of a family of general-purpose systems for both commercial and scientific applications. Brooks joined IBM in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.,

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This Robotic Pack Mule Can Carry Your Gear (and You)

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If you go back far enough, a bunch of the initial funding for quadrupedal robots that enabled the commercial platforms that are available today was tied into the idea of robotic pack animals. Their new robot that is none of these things is Barry, which can efficiently carry up to 90 kilograms so that you don’t have to.

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Video Friday: $2.6 Billion

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This April, we’re making the legendary game playable on our robotic mowers as a tribute to 30 years of mowing down demons. Amazon Robotics ] ABB’s fifty-year story of robotic innovation that began in 1974 with the sale of the world’s first commercial all-electric robot, the IRB 6. Oh it’s HOOSKvarna, not HUSKvarna.

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Remembering Lithium-Ion Battery Pioneer John Goodenough

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He probably is best known for developing the lithium cobalt oxide cathode in 1980—which became the foundation for Sony’s first commercial lithium-ion battery in 1991. Sony produced its first commercial lithium-ion battery in 1991 using Goodenough’s and Mizushima’s cobalt oxide cathode.

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Lotus unveils $2M electric hypercar Evija (Type 130); 2,000 PS, 1,700 Nm

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It’s a figure set in tribute to the car’s project code, Type 130. Although charging units capable of delivering this are not yet commercially available, when they are it will be possible to fully replenish the battery in just nine minutes. It is also the first completely new car to be launched under the stewardship of Geely.

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Remembering Jung Uck Seo, Former IEEE Region 10 Director

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Later he worked to commercialize the code division multiple access method of encoding data sources. After two years he left to become president of the Korea Institute of Science and Technology , in Seoul, where he led the effort to commercialize CDMA technology.

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Chrysler unveils new electric minivan for the US Postal Service

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The head of Chryslers ENVI division, Lou Rhodes, told AutoblogGreen this morning that Chrysler is marketing this battery-only version of the van to commercial fleet customers who typically have shorter range requirements. The extended-range version will be focused on retail customers.

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