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MIT Professor’s IoT Sensors Make Roads Safer

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Back in 2005, before smartphones were generally available, MIT Professor Hari Balakrishnan was so fed up with commuting delays in Boston that he built a mobile system to monitor road conditions. in computer science at the University of California, Berkeley , he became passionate about conducting research, he says.

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How MIT’s Muriel Medard Pioneered the Universal Decoder

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The MIT electrical engineering and computer science professor’s positive thinking has led to new ways to improve tried-and-true techniques in the field of information theory. The chip uses a new algorithm the team developed with Ken Duffy from Maynooth University : guessing random additive noise decoding (GRAND).

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Toyota’s Collaborative Safety Research Center launches 5-year, $35M program on autonomous and connected vehicle technologies

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The new research effort, named CSRC Next, will focus on the challenges and opportunities of autonomous and connected vehicle technologies over the next decade. CSRC is working with the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) and Toyota Connected (TC). —Chuck Gulash, Director of CSRC.

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Audi and MIT develop Road Frustration Index

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Driving in chaotic urban traffic can be as nearly as stressful as jumping out of an airplane, according to new findings from an Audi and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) study. For Audi, the research helps validate how driver assistance and connectivity technologies can help ease the stress of daily driving.

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Video Friday: Quadruped Transformer

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We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Jack, a product manager at Waymo, shares a couple interactions and the personal connection he has with getting it right. Robot Brains ] Thanks, Alice!

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Video Friday: DALL-E 2

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We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. CHI 2022 ].

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Ford showcasing vehicle-to-vehicle communication for crash avoidance; potential for leveraging WiFi and smartphones to extend quickly the number of participating vehicles

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At the “Forward with Ford” event held in June—a conference exploring the linkage of Ford vehicles and technologies to global consumer trends—the company showcased its work on vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications with a focus on crash avoidance. US DOT Connected Vehicles Research. Click to enlarge.

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