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Video Friday: FridgeBot

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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 !): MIT CSAIL ] NASA is sending a couple of robots to Venus in 2029! University of Bristol ] This a bottle unscrambler. Not the kind with legs or wheels, but still. AirLab ].

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New ultrafast camera for self-driving vehicles and drones

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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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What Robotics Experts Think of Tesla’s Optimus Robot

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After a year of speculation based on little more than a person in a robot suit combined with some optimistic assertions made by Tesla CEO Elon Musk , many roboticists tuned in to the event livestream (or attended in person) to see what Tesla’s approach to humanoid robotics would turn out to be. Research Specialist, MIT Media Lab.

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Your Life As A Digital Ghost

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Wong describes the new digital afterlife industry in a chapter of her new book from MIT Press, We the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age. Wendy is a Professor of Political Science and Principles Research Chair at the University of British Columbia. Wendy, thanks so much for joining me on Fixing the Future. Wong: And is that okay?

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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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In 1965, Larry Roberts, then at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory , connected one computer in Massachusetts to another in California over a telephone line. He was off to Princeton University in the autumn of 1961, returning to Bell Labs for the next few summers. I was pretty sure it would work,” Kahn says, “but it was a big event.

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Video Friday: Reflex Grasping

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We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Looking to give robots a more nimble, human-like touch MIT engineers have now developed a gripper that grasps by reflex. Enjoy today’s videos! Let’s make all robots squishy! Paper ] Thanks, Pham!

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Machine Learning Shaking Up Hard Sciences, Too

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Even with an efficient trigger, the LHC must store 600 petabytes over the next few years of data collection. The problem, according to Javier Duarte , a particle physicist at the University of California, San Diego, is that collision data such as that from the Large Hadron Collider , isn’t naturally an image.

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