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MARCH 3, 2024

Every time you use your voice to generate a message on a Samsung Galaxy mobile phone or activate a Google Home device, you’re using tools Chanwoo Kim helped develop. He recently left Samsung to continue his work in the field at Korea University , in Seoul, leading the school’s speech and language processing laboratory.

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MAY 19, 2016

The partners and supporters of the Decarbonizing Transport Partners are: Aeromexico - Air Transport Action Group (ATAG) - Anheuser Busch InBev – Brisa Group – China Communications Constructions Company (CCCC) – Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies (CER) – COSCO Group – European Conference of Transport Research Institutes (ECTRI) (..)

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FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Karnowski recalled a vehicle-image project by Stanford University researcher Timnit Gebru that identified 22 million cars from Google Street View images, classifying them into more than 2,600 categories (such as make and model) and then correlating them with demographic data. So, where to find a larger, fine-grained vehicle dataset?

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DECEMBER 20, 2010

In the US program, the city of Torrance, California along with Stanford University and Google Inc., Kumagaya City: Using Kumagaya’s suburban metropolitan environment, study the practicality of applying Honda’s EVs and plug-in hybrid vehicles to a park-and-ride system centered around Kagohara Station. Click to enlarge.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2018

New research by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Carnegie Mellon University, SRI International and the University of Colorado at Boulder shows that drone-based delivery could reduce greenhouse gas emissions and energy use in the transportation sector. An open-access paper on the research appears in Nature Communications.

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JUNE 18, 2023

“We used the entanglement of qubits to create an environment where you can then make these anyons,” says Tony Uttley , Quantinuum’s president and COO. Quantinuum “We used the entanglement of qubits to create an environment where you can then make these anyons,” says Tony Uttley , Quantinuum’s president and COO.

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MAY 12, 2025

That study was led by the three of us: a developmental psychologist ( Vikram Jaswal at the University of Virginia), an electrical and software engineer (Diwakar Krishnamurthy at the University of Calgary), and a computer scientist ( Mea Wang , also at the University of Calgary). Our journey to this point was not smooth.

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OCTOBER 22, 2021

We're hearing that everyone will need access to the metaverse, that this virtual universe will be the place we'll all soon be working and playing. Without them, we're flying blind, manipulating our environment on a global scale, but without proper understanding of the consequences.

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MAY 6, 2019

In their commentary, Andreas Goldthau (Royal Holloway University of London), Kirsten Westphal (German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP)), Morgan Bazilian (Colorado School of Mines) & Michael Bradshaw (University of Warwick) present four geopolitical scenarios to illustrate how varied the transition could be by 2030.

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JULY 20, 2010

By the end of 2010 and continuing through 2011, Honda will roll out a battery-electric vehicle demonstration program in the US with participants, including Stanford University, Google Inc. BEV and PHEV demonstration programs will begin later this year in the US. and the City of Torrance, Calif. Plug-in hybrid.

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APRIL 14, 2023

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. As at the previous events, teams from Carnegie Mellon University, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the University of Washington participated.

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AUGUST 30, 2024

Google DeepMind has managed to achieve amateur human-level competence at table tennis, which is much harder than it looks, even for humans. Paper ] Earthworm-inspired robots require novel actuators, and Ayato Kanada at Kyushu University has come up with a neat one. Deep Robotics ] Yes, quadruped robots need tow truck hooks.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Engineers at University of Colorado, Boulder have designed a new tiny robot that can passively change its shape to squeeze through narrow gaps. CU Boulder ] We’ve got a huge feature on the University of Zurich’s autonomous vision-based racing drones, which you should absolutely read in full after watching this summary video.

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DECEMBER 23, 2023

ALLEN MEDAL Sponsor: IBM DAVID KUCK University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign “For pioneering work in vector and parallel computer architecture, software, and compilers that enables many performance-sensitive applications.” IEEE FRANCES E. IEEE MEDAL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL AND SAFETY TECHNOLOGIES Sponsor: Toyota Motor Corp. IEEE RICHARD W.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2025

In the 2005 Grand Challenge, Carnegie Mellon Universitys H1ghlander was one of five autonomous cars to finish the race. He then worked on Googles Street View and its initial self-driving cars. Damian Dovarganes/AP H1ghlander held the pole position, having placed first in the qualifying rounds, followed by Stanley and Sandstorm.

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AUGUST 19, 2024

The latter included a 10-MW facility in Tainan that Google had announced to great fanfare in 2019 as its first renewable energy investment in Asia , to supply power for the company’s Taiwan datacenters. Many aquavoltaic projects were canceled while others were delayed. The array finally started up in 2023, three years behind schedule.

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DECEMBER 27, 2023

” xAI also noted that it is guided by its mission to “advance our collective understanding of the universe.” As per the filing, which was initially reported by The Information , xAI as a company seeks to create a “material positive impact on society and the environment, taken as a whole.”

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MARCH 31, 2009

We also learned quite a bit about proper site surveying and the optimal conditions for locating the panels, about using Google Earth to find true north as opposed to magnetic north and about a whole bucket full of other handy, highly useful sites on line to help with every step along the way. He’s been teaching ever since.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

IBM , Google and others are building their machines out of superconducting qubits. In the new result, a collaboration between the University of New South Whales (UNSW) and Sydney-based startup Diraq , with contributors from Japan, Germany, Canada, and the U.S., Quantinuum and IonQ use individual trapped ions. The list goes on.

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MARCH 8, 2022

With that in mind, Dhruv Shah and professor Sergey Levine at the University of California, Berkeley, are working on a different approach. Such hints may not sound all that impactful, but they enable a very simple robot to efficiently and intelligently travel through unfamiliar environments to reach far-off destinations.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Like their competitors IBM , Google , Honeywell , and D-Wave , both Chinese companies profess to be developing "full stack" quantum businesses, offering access to quantum computing through the cloud coupled with their own suite of algorithms, software, and consulting services. We can read a qubit.

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OCTOBER 4, 2023

Spotify ↗ • Apple Podcasts ↗ • Google Podcasts ↗ • Amazon Music ↗ • Pocket Casts ↗ • Podcast Addict ↗ • Deezer ↗ • Player FM ↗ • Podchaser ↗ • Listen Notes ↗ • YouTube ↗ • RSS Feed ↗ The way the Chatbot podcast works is that we invite a couple of robotics experts to talk with each other about a topic that they have in common.

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JANUARY 9, 2024

Robots need robot data to learn from, and this data is typically created slowly and tediously by researchers in laboratory environments for very specific tasks. Even without specific training, this Google research robot is able to follow the instruction “move apple between can and orange.” We decided to give it a try.

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JUNE 10, 2022

In association with universities, institutes and development companies, we are developing research platforms whose basic technical principles are based on nature. Paper ] The compliance and conformability of soft robots provide inherent advantages when working around delicate objects or in unstructured environments. Robot Brains ].

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JUNE 10, 2016

The Materials Project, a Google-like database of material properties aimed at accelerating innovation ( earlier post ), has released an enormous trove of data to the public, giving scientists working on batteries, fuel cells, photovoltaics, thermoelectrics, and other advanced materials a powerful tool to explore new avenues of research.

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MARCH 1, 2023

I’m using a word processor with the core features and functions of Microsoft Word, Google Docs, or LibreOffice’s Writer, along with an email client that could be mistaken for a simplified version of Apple Mail, Microsoft Outlook, or Mozilla Thunderbird. But these engineers and programmers largely shared the same point of view.

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JULY 1, 2022

According to Google Translate, these PoKeBo Cubes chat amongst themselves to communicate useful information to you. With a strong lineage connected to Carnegie Mellon University, we're proud to maintain a presence in this great city. It can generate motions in rough environments for a variety of different gaits in real time.

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MARCH 23, 2024

Companies like Salesforce have launched their own software sustainability initiatives , while the Green Software Foundation now comprises 64 member organizations, including tech giants Google , Intel , and Microsoft. We don’t understand huge parts of the ecosystem at the moment, and access to reliable data is tough,” Smith says.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2024

According to IEEE’s 2024 Technology Megatrends report , the three technologies will change how companies, governments, and universities operate and will affect what new skills employees need. Adopting digital technologies Digital transformation tech includes autonomous technologies, ubiquitous connectivity, and smart environments.

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DECEMBER 8, 2022

Can students draw from a wide range of programs in the business school and the university at large? And the answer was, ‘Yes.’’’ Purdue University is one of the country’s and the world’s best STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) schools. Purdue is also among the country’s 10 most innovative universities , per U.S.

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JUNE 4, 2025

Noguchi, a former Japanese radio broadcaster, is the voice for Google Maps navigation in Japanese. Kish Jr During a presentation on artificial intelligence, Tshilidzi Marwala , rector of the United Nations University in Tokyo, led a deep dive into how lawmakers can create policies to govern AI use. The award is sponsored by Google.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2022

In a paper recently published in Scientific Reports , roboticists from Ritsumeikan University in Japan demonstrate a haptic teleoperation system that connects a human hand on one end with microfingers on the other, letting the user feel what it’s like to give a pill bug a tummy rub.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Trusted execution environments (TEE) were developed to provide a higher level of security for applications by using an encryption perimeter around program execution running on the hardware, but these were built primarily for applications confined within a CPU. Implementing this capability in software adds additional overhead and latency.

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OCTOBER 30, 2024

Even though Google , Meta , and Microsoft have touted goals to be carbon neutral or negative by 2030, and Amazon by 2040, the industry is now moving in the wrong direction. They all follow a universal template that Qoori developed to optimize the construction of the company’s ever-larger centers. million square feet) of floor space.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

What these applications have in common is that they involve learning and operating in a constrained, predictable environment. Raia Hadsell , head of robotics at DeepMind , Google's London-based AI partner. Google , the challenges are daunting. Both companies are subsidiaries of Alphabet.). The San Francisco-based lab.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2022

But some argue that the key to training AI systems that must work in messy real-world environments, such as self-driving cars and warehouse robots, is not, in fact, real-world data. What if I reconfigure my factory or make different decisions about how I manipulate things in my environment? It may be counterintuitive. Back to top.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2022

He pioneered the use of graphics processing units (GPUs) to train deep learning models in the late 2000s with his students at Stanford University , cofounded Google Brain in 2011, and then served for three years as chief scientist for Baidu , where he helped build the Chinese tech giant’s AI group.

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