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Ukraine Is Riddled With Land Mines. Drones and AI Can Help

Cars That Think

About a third of its land—an area the size of Florida—is estimated to contain EO. At that rate, it would take more than 500 million person-hours to manually search imagery covering all of Ukraine’s suspected contaminated land for EO. Our resulting model correctly detected 92 percent of PFM-1s in these environments, on average.

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Your Robotic Avatar Is Almost Ready

Cars That Think

Under some fairly specific constraints, autonomous robots are starting to find a few valuable niches in semistructured environments, like offices and hospitals and warehouses. It’s still an achievement for autonomous robots to merely survive in the real world, which is a long way from any kind of useful generalized autonomy.

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Summer Update

Plug In Partners

The list of supporters/partners now includes links to the members’ web sites along with a contact person. The press conference will be at 3:00 pm at Austin City Hall. It would be very helpful to the campaign if you could also link to the Plug-In Partners website on your site. Mr. Woolsey and Ms.

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Solar Powered Greenius Producing Massive South Bay Energy

Creative Greenius

Howard’s team is holding a conference on June 24th for city managers throughout the county that I’ll be attending. To put that in perspective for you, if Los Angeles County were a state, it would rank ninth in population behind the states of California, New York, Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, and Michigan.

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Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

Green Car Congress

Unfortunately, this conference focused primarily on setting a cap on carbon emissions and providing financial aid to developing countries to build capacities to adapt to the negative impacts of climate change. Generally each person contributes assets and share risks. COP15 , United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009.