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CMU demo’ing Autonomous SRX in Washington this week

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Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) this week will demonstrate the CMU advanced Autonomous Cadillac SRX in Washington, DC. The other two images in the second row show those of an urban street. 2014) Click to enlarge. The new vehicle that Rajkumar is demonstrating in Washington is the successor to that vehicle. Click to enlarge.

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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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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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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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AI’s 6 Worst-Case Scenarios

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Andrew Lohn, Georgetown University. Since AI-enabled systems confer greater speed benefits on its users, the first countries to develop military applications will gain a strategic advantage. But they’re no less dystopian. Both action and inaction caused by deepfakes have the potential to produce disastrous consequences for the world.