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CMU demo’ing Autonomous SRX in Washington this week

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The car was brought to Washington at the request of Congressman Bill Shuster of Pennsylvania, who participated in a 33-mile drive in the autonomous vehicle between a Pittsburgh suburb and the city’s airport last September. The new vehicle that Rajkumar is demonstrating in Washington is the successor to that vehicle. Click to enlarge.

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Q&A: Ghost Robotics CEO on Armed Robots for the U.S. Military

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Last week, the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) conference took place in Washington, D.C. One of the exhibitors was Ghost Robotics —we've previously covered their nimble and dynamic quadrupedal robots, which originated at the University of Pennsylvania with Minitaur in 2016. We thought it was a great idea.

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2010 Prius Plug-in Hybrid Makes North American Debut at Los Angeles Auto Show; First Li-ion Battery Traction Battery Developed by Toyota and PEVE

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Toyota, at the Bloomberg Cars & Fuels conference 1 Dec. This first-generation lithium battery has undergone more than three years of coordinated field testing in Japan, North America and Europe in a wide variety of climatic environments and driving conditions. New York, Oregon and Pennsylvania. Advanced Technologies Group.

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The 11 Commandments of Hugging Robots

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In this paper—just accepted in the ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI) —Block used a data-driven approach to develop the commandments for hugging robots, building off of research also presented at the 2021 Human-Robot Interaction Conference. It’s important to note that this is not an “in-the-wild” study of HuggieBot.

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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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Red Rose Transit Authority – RRTA, Pennsylvania: $2,450,000. System improvements include high performance fluorescent lighting, LED exit signs, retrofitting existing pole lights; and installing occupancy sensors for private offices, conference rooms and bathrooms. Solar PV system installations range from 5kW to 20kW.

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AI’s 6 Worst-Case Scenarios

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Since AI-enabled systems confer greater speed benefits on its users, the first countries to develop military applications will gain a strategic advantage. Horowitz , director of Perry World House , at the University of Pennsylvania, warns “about the logic of AI and what it means for domestic repression. A Dangerous Race to the Bottom.

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Solar Powered Greenius Producing Massive South Bay Energy

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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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