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WiTricity extends recent funding for a total of $52M

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Stage 1 Ventures led the first tranche of $34 million with participation from Air Waves Wireless Electricity and a strategic investment by Mitsubishi Corporation through its US subsidiary, Mitsubishi Corporation (Americas). and postdoctoral researchers on campus working on wireless charging.

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IEEE Honors Pioneering Engineers

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Meet the recipients of the 2022 IEEE medals, service awards, honorary membership, and corporate recognition. MADNI University of California, Los Angeles “For pioneering contributions to the development and commercialization of innovative sensing and systems technologies, and for distinguished research leadership.” IEEE THEODORE W.

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How Vannevar Bush Engineered the 20th Century

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Vannevar Bush and the Funding of Science & Engineering Beginning in 1940, and with the ear of the president and leading scientific and engineering organizations, Vannevar Bush promoted the importance of supporting all aspects of research, including in universities, the military, and industry. MIT Museum But wait, there’s more!

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IEEE Honors Iconic Engineers

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CERF Google, LLC Reston, Va. ALLEN MEDAL Sponsor: IBM LYDIA KAVRAKI Rice University Houston “For foundational probabilistic algorithms and randomized search methods that have broad impact in robotic motion planning and computational biology.” IEEE MEDAL OF HONOR Sponsor: IEEE Foundation VINTON G. IEEE FRANCES E. IEEE RICHARD W.

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Toyota Research Institute CEO Pratt outlines initial AI/robotics mandates; trillion-mile reliability

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The investment is in addition to the $50 million investment over the next five years with MIT and Stanford, each close by TRI’s new offices, to establish joint fundamental artificial intelligence research centers at each university.) To those ends, TRI has launched 30 initial projects with its partners at Stanford and MIT.

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What Robotics Experts Think of Tesla’s Optimus Robot

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Research Specialist, MIT Media Lab. Assistant Professor, University of Toronto. In short, I’d bet that any decent university or corporate robotics lab with a similar budget and an active PR team would be able to pull this off. Roboticist, Google Brain. Assistant Professor, Florida State University.

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IBM’s Fall From World Dominance

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He's currently a senior research fellow at the University of Minnesota's Charles Babbage Institute , where he specializes in the history of technology. And contrary to its corporate culture, it used off-the-shelf parts and software that the company didn't write. Just how revolutionary was that for IBM? That's Microsoft, that's IBM.

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