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Video Friday: Resilient Bugbots

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We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. MIT ] This robot gripper is called DragonClaw, and do you really need to know anything else? Michigan Robotics ] The RPD 35 from Built Robotics is the world’s first autonomous piling system.

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Video Friday: FridgeBot

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We'll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months; here's what we have so far ( send us your events !): MIT CSAIL ] NASA is sending a couple of robots to Venus in 2029! Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics.

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New ultrafast camera for self-driving vehicles and drones

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The new camera records the changes in light intensity between scenes at nanosecond intervals, much faster than conventional video, and it stores the images in a data format that is many times smaller as well. The CeleX sensor allows pixel-parallel image processing at the focal plane and event-driven readout.

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Video Friday: Reflex Grasping

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We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Looking to give robots a more nimble, human-like touch MIT engineers have now developed a gripper that grasps by reflex. Enjoy today’s videos!

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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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In 1965, Larry Roberts, then at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory , connected one computer in Massachusetts to another in California over a telephone line. Kahn postponed his planned return to MIT and continued to work on expanding this network. I was pretty sure it would work,” Kahn says, “but it was a big event.

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

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The Open Environment and How It Changed PARC started with a small nucleus—perhaps fewer than 20 people. A memory capable of storing all the information for a single video frame; the contents of a frame buffer can be controlled by special software to produce or modify images. Nine came from the Berkeley Computer Corp., Frame buffer.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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Our PRIUS+ Project Photos PHEV Resources Global Warming Take Action News and Events Contact Us How Carmakers are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity If you ask, "have major auto-makers come around on PHEVs?", Cischke, Ford senior vice president for sustainability, environment and safety engineering. "By Marketwatch ).

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