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Volvo Trucks and PATH successfully demo partially automated on-highway truck platooning in California; CACC

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Volvo Trucks and Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology (PATH) at the University of California, Berkeley recently completed a successful demonstration of partially automated truck platooning, made possible by Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control technology ( CACC ). Other project partners include Cambridge Systematics, Inc.,

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Pasha, Port of LA and California ARB partner on $26.6M Green Omni Terminal demo project; emerging zero and near-zero emission tech

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and the Port of Los Angeles are launching the Green Omni Terminal Demonstration Project, a full-scale, real-time demonstration of zero and near-zero emission technologies at a working marine terminal. METS-1, which was piloted at the Port of Los Angeles, is one of only two existing ARB-approved alternatives to shore power.

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Video Friday: Grip Anything

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IEEE CASE 2022 : 20 August–24 August 2022, MEXICO CITY CLAWAR 2022 : 12 September–14 September 2022, AZORES, PORTUGAL ANA Avatar XPRIZE Finals : 4 November–5 November 2022, LOS ANGELES CoRL 2022 : 14 December–18 December 2022, AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND Enjoy today's videos! University of Leeds ] Thanks Chengxu! Clearpath ].

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The Do-or-Die Moments That Determined the Fate of the Internet

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Several of these events, such as the first public demo of the ARPANET in 1972, or the mid-1980s conferences now known as Interop, alerted experts to new technologies, and, in some cases, altered the balance between competing approaches. The first node of the ARPANET was installed at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1969.

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Video Friday: Remote Control Burger Crafting

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The Real Robotics Lab at University of Leeds presents two Chef quadruped robots remotely controlled by a single operator to make a tasty burger as a team. MIT ] Unboxing and getting started with a TurtleBot 4 robotics learning platform with Maddy Thomson, Robotics Demo Designer from Clearpath Robotics.

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Video Friday: Loona

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IROS 2022 : 23–27 October 2022, KYOTO, JAPAN ANA Avatar XPRIZE Finals : 4–5 November 2022, LOS ANGELES CoRL 2022 : 14–18 December 2022, AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND. Roundtable discussion on how teaching automation in schools, colleges, and universities can help shape the workers of tomorrow. Please send us your events for inclusion.

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

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Structured VLSI design, now taught in more than 100 universities. And unlike university research laboratories, PARC had one unifying vision: it would develop “the architecture of information.” Pake was executive vice chancellor, provost, and professor of physics at Washington University in St. Laser printers.

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