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Video Friday: Resilient Bugbots

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Inspired by the hardiness of bumblebees, MIT researchers have developed repair techniques that enable a bug-sized aerial robot to sustain severe damage to the actuators, or artificial muscles, that power its wings—but to still fly effectively. [ MIT ] This robot gripper is called DragonClaw, and do you really need to know anything else?

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ARPA-E to award $27M for advanced nuclear reactor systems operational technology: GEMINA

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X-energy’s Immersive Environment Toolset is a multi-disciplinary 3D model that, when combined with virtual reality, will test techniques that optimize maintenance and security. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will assemble, validate, and exercise high-fidelity digital twins of the BWRX-300 systems.

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Video Friday: Beyond the Limit

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IEEE SSRR 2023 : 13–15 November 2023, FUKUSHIMA, JAPAN Humanoids 2023 : 12–14 December 2023, AUSTIN, TEXAS, USA Cybathlon Challenges : 02 February 2024, ZURICH, SWITZERLAND Eurobot Open 2024 : 8–11 May 2024, LA ROCHE-SUR-YON, FRANCE Enjoy today’s videos! We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months.

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Video Friday: FridgeBot

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ICRA 2022 – May 23-27, 2022 – Philadelphia, PA, USA Let us know if you have suggestions for next week, and enjoy today's videos. MIT CSAIL ] NASA is sending a couple of robots to Venus in 2029! We'll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months; here's what we have so far ( send us your events

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MIT and Princeton researchers leverage smartphone cameras for collaborative traffic signal schedule advisory system; tests show 20% cut in fuel consumption

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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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Video Friday: Robot Halloween

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BARS 2021 – October 29, 2021 – Stanford, CA, USA Let us know if you have suggestions for next week, and enjoy today's videos. DOFEC ] Engineering a robot to perform a variety of tasks in practically any environment requires rock-solid hardware that's seamlessly integrated with software systems. Happy Halloween from HEBI Robotics!

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Video Friday: Fluidic Fingers

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DARPA SubT Finals – September 21-23, 2021 – Louisville, KY, USA. WeRobot 2021 – September 23-25, 2021 – Coral Gables, FL, USA. ROSCon 2021 – October 21-23, 2021 – New Orleans, LA, USA. MIT CSAIL ]. MIT CSAIL ]. RO-MAN 2021 – August 8-12, 2021 – [Online Event]. IROS 2021 – September 27-1, 2021 – [Online Event].

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