Cars That Think
JANUARY 8, 2024
Her team created a suite of low-cost medical devices, the NEST360 newborn tool kit, to improve neonatal health in sub-Saharan Africa. After graduating in 1985 with bachelor’s degrees in physics and mathematics, she headed to MIT as a graduate student with the goal of pursuing a career in medical engineering.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 16, 2012
Ford is now shipping beta test kits of its open-source connectivity research platform, OpenXC ( earlier post ), to developers and universities around the world. The CAN translation module is a microcontroller with two connections: one to the CAN bus via the OBD-II port, and one to the host device via USB. OpenXC architecture.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 6, 2012
Ultimately, the lab will create an “innovation network” connecting Ford’s Advanced Design Studio in Irvine, Calif., and Ford employees working with connectivity platform partner Microsoft Corp. in Redmond, Wash. —Paul Mascarenas, Ford chief technical officer and vice president of Research and Innovation.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 2, 2014
WiTricity, the MIT spin-off commercializing strongly coupled magnetic resonance wireless charging technology for EVs as well as consumer devices, industrial, medical and military applications ( earlier post ), has work underway to deliver wireless charging systems capable of delivering 10s of kilowatts for plug-ins, compared to the current 3.3
Cars That Think
APRIL 8, 2022
PneuBots is a modular soft robotics construction kit consisting of seven types of self-foldable segments with high tensile strength, three types of pneumatic connectors and splitters, and a custom-designed box. I think that this video from ABB might be trying to communicate something, but I have no idea what. [ CHI 2022 ].
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 10, 2013
By connecting cars and trucks to wireless networks, and giving unheard-of access to vehicle data, entirely new application categories and hardware modules can be explored—safety, energy efficiency, sharing, health; the list goes on. Connectivity is an increasingly important part of the total user experience while driving.
Cars That Think
MARCH 25, 2022
Jack, a product manager at Waymo, shares a couple interactions and the personal connection he has with getting it right. He founded Revolution Robotics; a non-profit dedicated to making robotics hardware and software kits accessible to all communities, to make his vision into a reality. Robot Brains ] Thanks, Alice!
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