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Video Friday: Swarm Control

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In this video, we explore a future concept-of-operations for swarm management and how large groups of robots and drones will be able to interact and work together. MIT CSAIL ] Thanks, Rachel! Its AI gets smarter and more individualized through questions and conversations with users. Paper at IROS next week! [

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US DOE awards more than $175M to 40 projects for advanced vehicle research and development

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This project will develop a novel low cost route to carbon fiber using a lignin/PAN hybrid precursor and carbon fiber conversion technologies leading to high performance, low-cost carbon fiber. Demo Project for Multi-material light-weight prototype vehicle. Solid state thermoelectric energy conversion devices. 10,000,000.

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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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In 1965, Larry Roberts, then at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory , connected one computer in Massachusetts to another in California over a telephone line. You were just trying to figure out how to enable conversations.” Kahn postponed his planned return to MIT and continued to work on expanding this network.

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

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Some of these real-world offspring, like the Apple Lisa computer and the Hewlett-Packard LaserJet printer, took many of their root concepts from PARC; others, like the Ada computer language and the Intel 1103 dynamic RAM chip, are less closely related. What an ideal concept that would be for Xerox.

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