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Video Friday: Ingenuity’s 50th Flight

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JPL ] Georgia Tech researchers have recently created a soft rotary motor using liquid metal, compliant magnetic composites, and silicone polymers. This demonstrates how the fully-soft rotary electromagnetic actuator can bridge the gap between the capabilities of traditional hard motors and novel soft actuator concepts.

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Ford announces Smart Mobility plan; 25 initial projects

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Fleet insights, US. The data is gathered by devices plugged into the HP fleet vehicles. Using Georgia Tech-owned golf carts to prove out the technology, a person sitting in a remote location can access real-time video streamed over LTE to drive the carts. Car Swap is an experiment using Ford-owned fleet vehicles.

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Q&A: Inside DARPA’s Subterranean Challenge

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and Team CSIRO Data61—consisting of CSIRO’s Data61; Emesent; and Georgia Tech. Tim Chung: Every now and then, one of DARPA’s concepts warrants a different model for seeking out innovation. The equal scores triggered a tie-breaker rule: Which team had been the quickest to its final artifact? TIM CHUNG | DARPA program manager MCKIBILLO.

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Grabbing the prime real estate for electric truck charging hubs

Charged EVs

Charging-as-a-service is a popular option for fleet operators who want to focus on their core businesses and let experts handle the charging infrastructure. Zeem’s fleet-as-a-service model adds vehicle leasing and ancillary services to the equation. How many vehicles in your fleet? So we started focusing on the services.

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Building a Zero Trust Security Model for Autonomous Systems

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The long-term goal is to create a framework for understanding and defending against autonomous security risks across all types of infrastructure, including fleets of cars, automated warehouses, construction sites, farms, and smart cities. The fundamental concept is to never trust and always verify the provenance of each request.

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