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Video Friday: Monocycle Robot With Legs

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Installed in October of 2023, these new arms are not just for boxing, and are provide much greater speed and power. Starship ] By blending 2D images with foundation models to build 3D feature fields, a new MIT method helps robots understand and manipulate nearby objects with open-ended language prompts.

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Former Berkeley Dean of Engineering David A. Hodges Dies at 85

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Peter Bao-Sen Luh Professor emeritus at the University of Connecticut Life Fellow, 71; died 28 November Luh was a professor of electrical and systems engineering at the University of Connecticut in Storrs from 1980 to 2020. He earned a master’s degree in aeronautics and astronautics in 1977 from MIT and a Ph.D. for 37 years.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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The first personal computer developed in the United States is commonly thought to be the MITS Altair, which sold as a hobbyist’s kit in 1976. began buying used copiers from Xerox’s copier division and installing laser heads in them. At nearly the same time the Apple I became available, also in kit form. Mountain View, Calif.—began

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