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Video Friday: Beyond the Limit

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Energy Robotics ] This work presents a camera model for refractive media such as water and its application in underwater visual-inertial odometry. Current robotic systems focus on avoiding unexpected contact, often relying on strategically placed environment sensors. VISTEC ] Thanks Poramate! Paper ] Thanks Samarth!

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Video Friday: Ingenuity’s 50th Flight

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To showcase this new technology, the soft motor is used in a variety of applications from squeeze-based speed control to fully-soft underwater propulsion to hybrid water pumps to propelling a hybrid toy car. Naver Labs ] This seminar is from Matt Zucker at Swarthmore College, on “Robotics education and research at a liberal arts college.”

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Toyota Environmental Activities Grant Program accepting application for 2017 awards

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Toyota established the annual program in 2000 in commemoration of Toyota’s receipt of the Global 500 Award in 1999 from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); this year marks the program’s 18 th year. Environment-Education seminar of Energy in Yokkaichi University. Toki-no-hane (feather of Japanese crested ibis)'.

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Video Friday: BRUCE

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Ishikawa Minami Lab ] Landing an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) on top of an unmanned surface vehicle (USV) in harsh open waters is a challenging problem, owing to forces that can damage the UAV due to a severe roll and/or pitch angle of the USV during touchdown. [ CSIRO Data61 ] From 2020, a horse-inspired walking robot. coral reefs). [

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Volkswagen and Audi launch sustainability programs for US introduction of e-Golf BEV and A3 e-tron PHEV; carbon offsets with 3Degrees and solar energy

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VoA made the announcement at the Management Briefing Seminar, hosted by the Center for Automotive Research. —Oliver Schmidt, general manager, Environment and Engineering Office, Volkswagen Group of America. Benefits from the capture include odor reduction, improved water quality and future distributed renewable energy production.

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