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Video Friday: Monocycle Robot With Legs

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Eurobot Open 2024 : 8–11 May 2024, LA ROCHE-SUR-YON, FRANCE ICRA 2024 : 13–17 May 2024, YOKOHAMA, JAPAN Enjoy today’s videos! Unitree ] We present an avatar system designed to facilitate the embodiment of humanoid robots by human operators, validated through iCub3, a humanoid developed at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia.

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Video Friday: Tap Finger, Move Mountain

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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. Github ] Thanks, Kento!

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IEEE Honors Pioneering Engineers

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Kumar Texas A&M University College Station “For seminal contributions to the modeling, analysis, and design of wireless networks.” IEEE MILDRED DRESSELHAUS MEDAL Sponsor: Google ANANTHA CHANDRAKASAN MIT “For contributions to ultralow-power circuits and systems, and for leadership in academia and advancing diversity in the profession.”

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The Essential Vannevar Bush

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Born in 1890 in Massachusetts, he came to prominence as the nation’s top designer of computers while at MIT In the 1930s. During World War II, as personal science and engineering adviser to President Roosevelt, he led all research by civilians for the military and organized the Manhattan Project.

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Lotfi Zadeh and the Birth of Fuzzy Logic

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As a child, Zadeh was surrounded by governesses and tutors, while as a young adult, he had a personal servant. That enabled him to be financially independent when he came to the United States to enroll in graduate school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge. Zadeh Date of Birth Feb. Army Persian Gulf Command.

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The New Supersonic Boom

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Piloting the bullet-shaped Bell X-1 rocket plane in 1947, Chuck Yeager became the first person to exceed the speed of sound while in horizontal flight. They're preparing prototypes for flight and they've got designs for full-blown airliners capable of carrying scores of passengers. Everett Collection/Alamy. supersonic airliner.

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What the Well-Dressed Spacecraft Will Be Wearing

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Our lab, the Responsive Environments Group at MIT, has been working for well over a decade on embedding distributed sensor networks into flexible substrates. If the system functions as designed, we may even detect up to 20 micrometeoroid impacts across the fabric's 10-by-10-centimeter area. Allison Goode/Aegis Aerospace.

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