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Video Friday: Lunar Rover

Cars That Think

In December of 2021 at the mock lunar surface environment in JAXA’s Sagamihara Campus, the GITAI lunar robotic rover R1 conducted numerous tasks and mobility operations, successfully completing all planned tests. This is cool looking, but I'd need to know more about how this system can deal with an actual lunar environment, right?

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Video Friday: Humanoid Soccer

Cars That Think

His four-legged and wheeled robot is able to change shape within seconds, overcome steps and navigate between indoor and outdoor environments. Sanctuary AI ] Cargo drones are designed to carry payloads with predefined shape, size, and/or mass. Swiss-Mile ] Thanks, Marko! Utah Engineering ] PLEN is all ready for the world cup.

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Video Friday: Ingenuity’s 50th Flight

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50 flights is 45 flights more than this little helicopter was designed for, which is bonkers. DARPA’s Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency (RACER) program recently conducted its third experiment to assess the performance of off-road unmanned vehicles. Paper ] via [ Sensing Technologies Laboratory ] Thanks, Noah!

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Six automated truck platoons to compete in European Truck Platooning Challenge

Green Car Congress

One novel aspect of the EcoTwin combination is the advanced Wifi-P connection, developed by NXP and specially designed for automotive applications. Highway Pilot Connect uses this for a constant exchange of information with other trucks and the environment. A similar seminar will be arranged by Volvo Trucks in Brussels.

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Video Friday: Drone in a Cage

Cars That Think

If you think of the Elios 2 as your classic flip phone, only designed to make phone calls, the Elios 3 is the smartphone. This week’s GRASP on Robotics seminar is from Katherine Kuchenbecker at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, on haptics and physical human-robot interaction. “A Flyability ]. Drone Days ].

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