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Video Friday: Swarm Control

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MIT CSAIL ] Thanks, Rachel! Its AI gets smarter and more individualized through questions and conversations with users. Deep Robotics ] During Summer 2022 our group demoed ANYmal and Spot carrying out in the context of construction progress monitoring at Costain’s Gatwick Airport Train Station site. Paper at IROS next week! [

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US DOE awards more than $175M to 40 projects for advanced vehicle research and development

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This project will develop a novel low cost route to carbon fiber using a lignin/PAN hybrid precursor and carbon fiber conversion technologies leading to high performance, low-cost carbon fiber. Demo Project for Multi-material light-weight prototype vehicle. Solid state thermoelectric energy conversion devices. 10,000,000.

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The Cold War Arms Race Over Prosthetic Arms

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Wiener’s bad luck turned into fruitful conversations with his orthopedic surgeon, Melvin Glimcher. Left: MIT Museum; Right: Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard University Instead, it was Russian scientist Alexander Kobrinski who debuted the first clinically significant myoelectric prosthesis in 1960.

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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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In 1965, Larry Roberts, then at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory , connected one computer in Massachusetts to another in California over a telephone line. You were just trying to figure out how to enable conversations.” Kahn postponed his planned return to MIT and continued to work on expanding this network.

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EPC and WiTricity develop wireless power transfer demo system with high frequency gallium nitride (eGaN) FETs

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Efficient Power Conversion Corporation (EPC) and WiTricity have jointly developed a high-efficiency wireless power demonstration system utilizing the high-frequency switching capability of gallium nitride transistors. Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

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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. The first version of Smalltalk was written as the result of a chance conversation between Kay, Ingalls, and Ted Kaehler, another PARC researcher.

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