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Google’s technology campaign for autonomous driving

Green Car Congress

Search engine giant Google is looking for partners within in the auto industry to help launch one of the most significant applications of artificial technology over the next several years, the self-driving car. Google believes that a future state with having computers drive cars can “ remove a gigantic chunk ” of the US fatalities.

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Timnit Gebru Is Building a Slow AI Movement

Cars That Think

Timnit Gebru was a well-known scholar in the AI ethics community long before she got fired by Google in December 2020—but that messy and dramatic incident brought a new level of attention to her work. If you’re in a place like Texas or Florida, that can be potential for reporting the student to child welfare services. Back to top.

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Beep and Oxa partner to deploy autonomous vehicles driven by Oxa in US

Green Car Congress

The first initiative in the partnership is a fleet of Beep autonomous and electric shuttles driven by Oxa Driver, Oxa’s software that enables safe and energy-efficient self-driving of any vehicle type in any environment.

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Figure Promises First General Purpose Humanoid Robot

Cars That Think

Pratt spent 20 years at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC) , where he led the team that took second place at the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals. We are tackling this by building intelligent embodied agents that can interact with complex and unstructured real-world environments.

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Car Companies Standardize Plug for Electric Vehicles : Gas 2.0

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

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Solar-powered off-grid EV charging stations offer surprisingly attractive cost advantages

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” But the thing is, we knew that they would need EV charging in these types of environments—brownfield sites, nuclear waste sites. So, the fact that we are able to deploy without digging for foundations or trenching or anything else means that we’re an ideal solution for those types of environments. So that’s fleet. Desmond: Yes.

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MIT Battery Breakthrough Could Revolutionize Electric Cars : Gas 2.0

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