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AUGUST 10, 2016

Toyota Research Institute (TRI) ( earlier post ) is making a $22-million investment in research focused on artificial intelligence, robotics and autonomous driving at the University of Michigan (U-M). TRI-ANN is the third TRI facility, joining TRI offices in Palo Alto near Stanford and in Cambridge, near MIT. —Edwin Olson.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed an ultrafast high-contrast camera that could help self-driving cars and drones see better in extreme road conditions and in bad weather. The CeleX sensor allows pixel-parallel image processing at the focal plane and event-driven readout.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In a new study, engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder debuted mCLARI, a 2-centimeter-long modular robot that can passively change its shape to squeeze through narrow gaps in multiple directions. Queens University ] Thanks Josh! Adaptable to all terrains, large load, long-lasting endurance, and super athletic performance!

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MARCH 11, 2023

They wanted to see whether an electric vehicle could feed electricity back to the grid. The company’s president, Tom Gage , dubbed the system “vehicle to grid” or V2G. AC Propulsion’s president, Tom Gage, explains the company’s vehicle-to-grid technology at a 2001 conference in Seattle.

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JUNE 28, 2023

CRAWFORD EMPLOYER Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. TITLE ‘Professor of civil engineering, agronomy, and electrical and computer engineering MEMBER GRADE Fellow ALMA MATERS University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Ohio State University, Columbus But her engineering path eventually led her back to agriculture.

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AUGUST 25, 2011

In July, at the Association for Computing Machinery’s MobiSys conference, researchers from MIT and Princeton University took the best-paper award for a system that uses a network of smartphones mounted on car dashboards to collect information about traffic signals and to then tell drivers when slowing down could help them avoid waiting at lights.

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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. So, drones can be dancers, too.

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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.

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APRIL 21, 2023

This video shows clips of our field activities in late 2022 and early 2023, including our initial work with fully unoccupied vehicles. MIT ] Half a century since the concept of a cyborg was introduced, digital cyborgs, enabled by the spread of wearable robotics, are the focus of much research in recent times.

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JUNE 16, 2023

The Mori3 is geared towards difficult-to-reach environments where the task isn’t always known ahead of time, such as outer space. Researchers led by the University of California, San Diego, have developed a new model that trains four-legged robots to see more clearly in 3D. MIT ] The next frontier of technology is here.

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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. The read-only system is designed to keep everything isolated from the vehicle control systems.

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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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JULY 19, 2011

The US DOT’s is preparing NHTSA for a decision in 2013 that will determine whether the agency proceeds with regulatory activities that could require DSRC technology on new vehicles, consumer information programs that help new car buyers understand the effectiveness of this technology, or the need for further research and development.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2012

A Stanford University research team is designing a high-efficiency wireless charging system using magnetic resonance coupling ( earlier post ) to wirelessly transmit large electric currents between metal coils placed several feet apart. Simplified schematic of the wireless energy transfer system in free space. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 26, 2020

A data-driven simulation system invented at MIT, in collaboration with the Toyota Research Institute, to train driverless cars creates a photorealistic world with infinite steering possibilities, helping the cars learn to navigate a host of worse-case scenarios before cruising down real streets. Data-driven simulation.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. The University of Illinois will conduct research to develop a composite plastic heat exchanger for a low temperature gas streams common in industry. Colorado State University. Iowa State University. Michigan State University. Idaho National Laboratory.

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JANUARY 4, 2017

Screenshots from Solaria Labs DevPortal showing ability to drill down into data including location, date, time and cause of vehicle accidents over the past several years. Solaria Labs was established to help solve unmet consumer needs, foster new ideas and attract talent in a startup environment. Click to enlarge.

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JUNE 24, 2013

The goal of this new center is to create a collaborative environment and concentration of technical capability to accelerate materials discovery and development, provide opportunities to transition new breakthroughs in advanced materials to industry, and offer training opportunities for young scientists and engineers.

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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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APRIL 30, 2010

ARPA-E’s first solicitation awarded $151 million to 37 projects aimed at transformational innovations in energy storage, biofuels, carbon capture, renewable power, building efficiency, vehicles, and other areas. NC State University. Medical University of South Carolina. Columbia University. Earlier post.) Harvard, Univ.

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APRIL 22, 2011

A study by researchers at the University of Texas found that in general, use of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) can lead to an increase in ozone during nighttime hours (due to decreased scavenging from both vehicles and EGU stacks) and a decrease in ozone during daytime hours. Tammy Thompson, (now at MIT), lead author.

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APRIL 21, 2009

The breakthrough could revolutionize electric car battery technology and pave the way for ultra-fast charging electric vehicles in as little as two years. 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.

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MAY 31, 2016

Ceder also has an appointment at UC Berkeley’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and all the co-authors are also affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where some of the work was done. If we’re ever to all drive electric vehicles, there’s no way a cobalt-only technology can make it.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The selected projects—spanning 22 states and coordinated at universities, national laboratories, and private companies—will advance technologies for a wide range of areas, including electric vehicles, offshore wind, storage and nuclear recycling. Cornell University. Stanford University.

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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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APRIL 29, 2009

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. 0.9 - 0.95X.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In structured environments like factories, this works well enough. RoMan, along with many other robots including home vacuums , drones, and autonomous cars, handles the challenges of semistructured environments through artificial neural networks—a computing approach that loosely mimics the structure of neurons in biological brains.

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OCTOBER 3, 2014

Gregory Stephanopoulos, the Willard Henry Dow Professor of Chemical Engineering at MIT and colleagues at MIT and the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research have identified a new way to boost yeast tolerance to ethanol by simply altering the composition of the medium in which the yeast are grown. —Gregory Stephanopoulos.

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MARCH 10, 2023

Agilicious is a co-designed hardware and software framework tailored to autonomous, agile quadrotor flight, which has been developed and used since 2016 at the Robotics and Perception Group of the University of Zurich. Agilicious is completely open-source and open hardware and supports both model-based and neural-network-based controllers!

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

ExxonMobil and Princeton University announced the selection of five research projects associated with their partnership focused on energy technologies. Research will be led by Daniel Steingart, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment. 78 and William H.

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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. It's been a hectic couple of days, so here are some retired industrial robots quietly drawing lines in sand. ElliQ ].

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

MARS Lab ] Teams involved in DARPA’s Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency (RACER) program have one experiment under their belts and will focus on even more difficult off-road landscapes at Camp Roberts, California, September 15-27. UCSD ] Thanks, Liezel! no matter the weather. Zoox ] Thanks, Whitney!

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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. It's been a hectic couple of days, so here are some retired industrial robots quietly drawing lines in sand. 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." As part of the challenge, teams of engineers have developed vehicles capable of prospecting for resources in a test-bed simulating the Moon's shaded polar regions. Charm Lab ] SLURP!

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FEBRUARY 4, 2022

In the name of safety, the Toyota Research Institute has been teaching cars to autonomously drift, the idea being that it could be a good way to maintain control of a vehicle in an emergency. when Audi teamed up with Stanford to explore autonomy at the limits of vehicle handling, including autonomous drifting.

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JANUARY 2, 2010

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.

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OCTOBER 1, 2021

MIT ] Among the first electronic mobile robots were the experimental machines of neuroscientist W. NMAH ] Autonomous Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) have the potential to be employed for surveillance and monitoring tasks. The smart hand is soft and elastic, weighs about half a pound, and costs a fraction of comparable prosthetics. [

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