Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 22, 2018
MIT researchers have demonstrated that an aircraft with a 5-meter wingspan can sustain steady-level flight using ionic-wind propulsion. The MIT team’s final design resembles a large, lightweight glider. Outside of drone applications], it is difficult to infer how much it could influence aircraft propulsion in the future.
Cars That Think
JULY 31, 2023
Marc Raibert Raibert was a professor at Carnegie Mellon and MIT before founding Boston Dynamics in 1992. I look forward to having some demos of something like this happening at ICRA 2028 or 2029,” Raibert quipped. At the Institute, you’re starting to share your vision for the future of robotics more than you did at Boston Dynamics.
Cars That Think
OCTOBER 21, 2022
In this video, we explore a future concept-of-operations for swarm management and how large groups of robots and drones will be able to interact and work together. MIT CSAIL ] Thanks, Rachel! Meet poiq, your future buddy robot. This was the final demo of the MEMMO Horizon Europe Project. Paper at IROS next week! [
Cars That Think
DECEMBER 1, 2023
Universal Robots ] IREX is taking place in Japan right now, and here’s a demo of Kaleido, a humanoid robot from Kawasaki. MIT CSAIL ] If you look in the background of this video, there’s a person wearing an exoskeleton controlling the robot in the foreground. Available for preorder now.
Cars That Think
AUGUST 13, 2021
Bill Gates, for instance is backing MIT spin-off Commonwealth Fusion Systems , while General Fusion has Jeff Bezos' support. In addition to showcasing plasma confinement, the demo should help the company understand the economic feasibility of a full-scale plant. They are one of 30 or so private fusion ventures with hats in the ring.
Cars That Think
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Because robotics requires expertise in many different aspects of both software and hardware, getting a good sense of the present context of Tesla’s robot as well as its future potential means finding perspectives from a multitude of robotics experts, including people working in industry and academia and everywhere in between. BACK TO TOP ↑ ].
Cars That Think
JUNE 4, 2022
As for the future impact of PARC research—the sky’s the limit. 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. But if several Altos are linked, along with file servers and printers, the result looks suspiciously like the office of the future.
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