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Electric Pedicabs - future for London's transport

DIY Electric Car

London belongs to one of the largest cities in the world. London's undergrounds is one of the most developed in the world but also one of the oldest in the world counting over a 100 years. These were on the streets of London for the past 10 years however they were running only on the pedal power.

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Video Friday: Humanoid Soccer

Cars That Think

CoRL 2022 : 14–18 December 2022, AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND ICRA 2023 : 29 May–2 June 2023, LONDON Enjoy today’s videos! Be the tiny DIY robot cat you’ve always wanted to be! We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Swiss-Mile ] Thanks, Marko!

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From Home Brew to Hasbro

Cars That Think

Months later, in 2002, Bob and I finally had a set of electronics put together, with the right motors figured out, and we were ready to take a crack at making it balance and drive around. I learned the hard way making a balancing robot that works well requires the following items: High-torque geared motors with encoder feedback.

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Lotus and Harmon partner up to add sound to hybrids

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

When a car is operating on the electric motor only, throttle and speed dependent synthesised sound projects an engine sound in front of the vehicle. When the powertrain control system switches the car back to running on the electric motor only, the synthesis controller instantaneously sets the system running again.

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