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Video Friday: Quadruped Transformer

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Swiss-Mile ] OTTO Lifter drives nimbly in crowded and dynamic environments and improves safety in warehouses and facilities. B&R Automation ] How does the Waymo Driver safely handle interactions with cyclists in dense urban environments like San Francisco? Robot Brains ] Thanks, Alice!

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Ford OpenXC platform out of beta; open-source hardware and software platform

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Following on the launch of its first software developer program ( earlier post ), Ford is now turning its attention to the growing trend in hardware hacking by transforming vehicles into an experimental development environment. OpenXC gives developers and researchers the tools they need to get involved.

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Video Friday: Mini Pupper

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The basic kit is $250, which includes just the custom parts, so you'll need to add your own 3D printed parts, some of the electronics, and the battery. A complete Mini Pupper kit is $500, or get it fully assembled for an extra $60. MIT ] Among the first electronic mobile robots were the experimental machines of neuroscientist W.

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

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Structured VLSI design, now taught in more than 100 universities. And unlike university research laboratories, PARC had one unifying vision: it would develop “the architecture of information.” Pake was executive vice chancellor, provost, and professor of physics at Washington University in St. Laser printers.

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Video Friday: A 3-Year-Old Robot

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The way babies learn and explore their surroundings inspired researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Meta AI to develop a new way to teach robots how to simultaneously learn multiple skills and leverage them to tackle unseen, everyday tasks. MIT ] Legged robots are heading to Mars! [ ANYbotics ] What meal is this robot kitting?

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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Cischke, Ford senior vice president for sustainability, environment and safety engineering. "By But we want to give them cause to continue to press forward." ( MIT Technology Review ). But I dont think that would contribute to the global environment, to reduce [global warming gas] emissions." ( Wall Street Journal ).

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