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Video Friday: The Coolest Robots

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This work will be presented at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation ( ICRA 2023 ) in London next week. Wing ] Pollen Robotics’ team will be going to ICRA 2023 in London! Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics.

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UPS collaborating with Workhorse to deploy 50 electric trucks; rivaling acquisition cost of conventional; no subsidies

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Modec fully electric vehicle with a cab forward design used in London. UPS will test the vehicles primarily on urban routes across the country, including Atlanta, Dallas and Los Angeles. Each truck will have a range of approximately 100 miles between charges, ideal for delivery routes in and around cities.

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Toyota unveils RAV4 EV demonstration vehicle; targeting fully-engineered version in 2012 for market

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from one in Dallas or New York or London or Shanghai. Toyota’s approach to sustainable mobility focuses on the world’s future reliance on mobility systems tailored to specific regions or markets, rather than individual models or technologies. as its core technology.

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Exxon/Mobil Guilty of Climate Change Coverup. Now Ordered Out of Torrance 3 Years Sooner.

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These include the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) in Dallas, Texas, which received $75,000 (£45,500), and the Heritage Foundation in Washington DC, which received $50,000.

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The Algorithm that Mapped Omicron Shows a Path Forward

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This daunting task is managed by centers in London, Tokyo, and Beijing; Atlanta and Memphis in the United States; Melbourne, Australia; and Koltsovo, Russia. Seattle would land in one corner, New York in another corner, Dallas would fall in between those two and lower down, and so on. Something similar can be done for viruses.

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A New Wildfire Watchdog

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At the University of Texas at Dallas , Siavash Pourkamali's group has taken a different approach. Eric Yeatman's group at Imperial College London has been developing the hardware platform needed for such drone-based data collection. During its inactive state, it draws nearly zero power, having a leakage current of only nanoamperes.

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

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Computer graphics artist Norm Cox, now of Cox & Hall, Dallas, Texas, was finally hired to redesign the icons. New York City and London, 1980), reprints his 1963 Ph.D. Icon designers today still wrestle with the need to make icons adaptable to the many different system configurations offered by computer makers.

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