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Video Friday: Fluidic Fingers

Cars That Think

DARPA SubT Finals – September 21-23, 2021 – Louisville, KY, USA. In this work, we propose a novel bug algorithm named ‘Sniffy Bug’, which allows a fully autonomous swarm of gas-seeking nano quadcopters to localize a gas source in an unknown, cluttered and GPS-denied environments. Humanoids 2020 – July 19-21, 2021 – [Online Event].

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Cischke, Ford senior vice president for sustainability, environment and safety engineering. "By August 9, 2007 (Multiple reports on speech and press conference by GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz) Lutz said his goal is for GM to develop a plug in hybrid on sale by 2010. Does it make good business sense, and how does it affect the environment?"

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