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Video Friday: Tiny Robot Bug Hops and Jumps

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MIT ] CubiX is a wire-driven robot that connects to the environment through wires, with drones used to establish these connections. But to engineers at the University of California San Diego, this game was an inspiration, suggesting that measuring tape could become a great material for a robotic gripper. RIVR ] And now, this.

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Video Friday: Robot Boxing

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Unitree ] A team of scientists and students from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands (TU Delft) has taken first place at the A2RL Drone Championship in Abu Dhabi - an international race that pushes the limits of physical artificial intelligence, challenging teams to fly fully autonomous drones using only a single camera.

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Here Comes the World Wide Web of Everything

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When it was invented in 1991, the World Wide Web connected an Internet that was overrun with many thousands of individual, fragmented digital documents. The Spatial Web promises to connect a physical world full of devices, phones, wearables, robots, drones, and even AI agents. HTML, hypertext markup language, represented a daring leap.

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GM demos 8 connected vehicle safety applications in Shanghai

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General Motors demonstrated eight safety applications for its latest intelligent and connected vehicle (ICV) technology for the first time in China at the National Intelligent and Connected Vehicle Pilot Zone in Shanghai, which opened in June. In dense urban areas, electric vehicle penetration could reach 50%. Earlier post.).

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Volvo Buses and Singapore University NTU demo world’s first full size autonomous electric bus

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Volvo Buses and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore have demonstrated the world’s first 12-meter autonomous electric bus. Plans are in place to test the bus on NTU campus and to extend the route beyond the university. The Volvo bus will soon begin trials on the NTU campus. —Håkan Agnevall, President Volvo Buses.

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Soletair demo plant produces renewable hydrocarbon fuel from CO2 captured from the air

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VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) are beginning testing of the Soletair demo plant, which uses air-captured carbon dioxide to produce renewable fuels and chemicals. The hydrogen production system is built in a standard shipping container and virtually connected to the 206.5

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Toyota to demo Prius Plug-In Hybrid Vehicles in New York City

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The Prius Plug-in Hybrid vehicle can be fully charged in approximately three hours from a standard 110-volt electrical outlet, or in 90 minutes with a 220-volt connection. A fully charged Prius Plug-in Hybrid vehicle is capable of running on electricity for approximately 13 miles (21 km) at speeds of up to 62 mph.