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A Novel IEEE Workshop Showcases Jamaica’s Engineering Community

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Marie Hunter , IEEE managing director and the event design lead, and David Stankiewicz , event design and production manager for IEEE Conferences, Events, and Experiences , partnered with the section and region to design the workshop. IEEE Member Juleen Gentles.

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The 11 Commandments of Hugging Robots

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Unfortunately, physical contact with humans is something that robots find especially difficult and occasionally dangerous, so that we cannot (yet) safely use them as a proxy for nuanced physical contact with another person. When HuggieBot detects a user in its personal space, it opens its arms and invites the user in for a hug.

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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.

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Make IEEE Your Home Base

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Air Force on aerospace and remote-sensing projects, his main involvement with IEEE was renewing his membership, he says, as well as reading IEEE Spectrum and occasionally attending a conference. After 20 years, the senior member decided to join the private sector but had few contacts. “I And that, to me, is home.”

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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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