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MARCH 15, 2024

Legendary MIT roboticist Daniela Rus has published a new book called The Heart and the Chip: Our Bright Future with Robots. To me this character is a tremendous inspiration, yet I often remind myself that in the story, he begins his career as an MIT-­trained weapons manufacturer and munitions developer.

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APRIL 21, 2023

Inspired by the adaptable nature of organic brains, researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have introduced a method for robust flight navigation agents to master vision-based fly-to-target tasks in intricate, unfamiliar environments. Can they help the average person beat a high jumper?

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MARCH 25, 2022

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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JANUARY 10, 2013

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. Open-source innovation.

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JULY 22, 2023

VR headsets allow students to immerse themselves in realistic digital environments to learn math and science by solving real-world problems, such as calculating how high a house’s foundation should be raised to offset the risk of flooding. Thanks to Prisms of Reality , VR technology is being used in 140 school districts in 30 states.

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JULY 9, 2022

Fuzzy theory is wrong, wrong, and pernicious,” said William Kahan, a highly regarded professor of computer sciences and mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley in 1975. Kalman in 1972, who is now a professor at Florida State University in Tallahassee. The denunciations were sometimes extreme. But Zadeh never wavered.

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APRIL 24, 2022

DARPA designed the competition to advance practical robotics in extreme conditions, based around three distinct underground environments: human-made tunnels, the urban underground, and natural caves. A series of three preliminary circuit events would give teams experience with each environment. IEEE Spectrum.

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MARCH 24, 2022

The professor is the recipient of this year’s IEEE John von Neumann Medal for “leadership in mobile and wireless sensing systems technologies and applications, including personal health management.” student in electrical engineering and computer science at MIT. ?IEEE: The award is sponsored by IBM.

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APRIL 21, 2009

The discovery came when MIT researchers Byoungwoo Kang and Gerbrand Ceder found out how to get a common lithium compound to release and take up lithium ions in a matter of seconds. According to Peter Bruce, a chemist at the University of St Andrews, UK, “As far as I know, this is the fastest yet for this material.&#

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OCTOBER 3, 2023

Foundation for Skydio’s drones can be traced back to Adam’s work on autonomous agile drones at MIT , and after spending a few years at Google working on Project Wing’s delivery drones , Adam cofounded Skydio in 2014. Davide Scaramuzza directs the Robotics and Perception group at the University of Zürich.

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MARCH 27, 2022

Mag amps thus found many applications in demanding environments, especially military, space, and industrial control. Universal Images Group/Getty Images. Amplistat , CGS Laboratories’ Increductor , Westinghouse’s Cypak (cybernetic package), and Librascope ’s Unidec (universal decision element). During the 1950s, the U.S.

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the session counted among its panelists: Professor John Heywood, Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Sloan Auto Laboratory at MIT. Professor Robert Cervero, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California-Berkeley. Professor Sebastian Thrun, Stanford University. Still, Prof.

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MARCH 1, 2023

The people who developed the Alto came to Xerox PARC from universities, industrial labs, and commercial ventures, bringing with them diverse experiences and skills. By the late 1960s, Xerox executives had begun to see information technology make an impact in the office environment. The two were disciples of J.C.R.

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The US Department of Transportation (DOT) sponsors a broad program of connected vehicle research ; the research is a multimodal program that involves using wireless communication between vehicles, infrastructure, and personal communications devices to improve safety, mobility, and environmental sustainability. MIT and smart intersections.

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JUNE 4, 2022

Structured VLSI design, now taught in more than 100 universities. Networks that link personal computers in offices. And unlike university research laboratories, PARC had one unifying vision: it would develop “the architecture of information.” Colorful weather maps on TV news programs. Laser printers.

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OCTOBER 8, 2023

It was a PR2 , from the robotics company Willow Garage, and Georgia Tech robotics professor Charlie Kemp was demonstrating how the PR2 was able to locate a person and bring them a bottle of medicine. I imagined using it as a way to once again manipulate my physical environment after years of just lying in bed.”

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AUGUST 20, 2021

Constant Gardener ] via [ RobotStart ] Engineers at MIT and Shanghai Jiao Tong University have designed a soft, lightweight, and potentially low-cost neuroprosthetic hand. Construction Robotics ] Older adults sharing what it's like to live with ElliQ, a personal care companion, for the past two years. ElliQ ].

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AUGUST 20, 2021

Constant Gardener ] via [ RobotStart ] Engineers at MIT and Shanghai Jiao Tong University have designed a soft, lightweight, and potentially low-cost neuroprosthetic hand. Construction Robotics ] Older adults sharing what it's like to live with ElliQ, a personal care companion, for the past two years. ElliQ ].

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NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Sanctuary ] Ayato Kanada, an assistant professor at Kyushu University in Japan, wrote in to share "the world's simplest omnidirectional mobile robot." With collision resilience and re-orientation ability, the tensegrity aerial vehicles can operate in cluttered environments without complex collision-avoidance strategies.

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OCTOBER 1, 2021

MIT ] Among the first electronic mobile robots were the experimental machines of neuroscientist W. ARPL NYU ] Human environments are filled with large open spaces that are separated by structures like walls, facades, glass windows, etc. When you can't have robots fight each other in person because pandemic, you have to get creative.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Past wireless generations coalesced around universally agreed-upon standards relatively smoothly. But early research into 6G is emerging in a more tense geopolitical environment, and the quibbles that arose during 5G's standardization could blossom into more serious disagreements this time around. At the moment, says. billion in 2020.

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APRIL 29, 2022

Quantum technology relies on quantum effects that can arise because the universe can become a fuzzy place at its very smallest levels. However, whereas quantum computers strive to overcome this weakness , quantum sensors capitalize on this vulnerability to achieve extraordinary sensitivity to the slightest disturbances to the environment.

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DECEMBER 29, 2023

This Mirror Reverses How Light Travels in Time Nature Physics In an esoteric bit of research this year, a group of researchers based at universities in New York City discovered how to pass a signal through something called a “time interface”—the result being that the entire signal acted like it was moving back in time.

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Basic elements of the plan, which was published in the Strüngmann Forum Report , Linkages of Sustainability , include: Two universally accessible but completely independent transportation networks: one for LLMs, the other for FHVs. Thus, two universally accessible, but separate networks are needed. cement, copper) would decrease.

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AUGUST 11, 2023

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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AUGUST 27, 2012

—John Reilly, co-director of the Joint Program and co-author Sebastian Rausch, now at ETH Zurich University, calculated the impact a carbon tax starting at $20 per ton would have using a national economic model that details energy, taxes and household incomes. They found that the tax would raise $1.5 —Rausch and Reilly (2012).

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