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MIT study: people globally follow a “visitation law”; inverse relationship between distance and frequency of visits

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A new paper by an MIT team and colleagues in Singapore, China, Italy and Denmark, drawing on global data, finds that people visit places more frequently when they have to travel shorter distances to get there. —Paolo Santi, a research scientist at the Senseable City Lab at MIT and co-author. Schläpfer, M., O’Keeffe, K.

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Video Friday: Spot Levels Up

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In this paper, we propose AutoCharge, an autonomous charging solution for quadrotors that combines a portable ground station with a flexible, lightweight charging tether and is capable of universal, highly efficient, and robust charging. Moderated by Catie Cuan, Stanford University. ESA ] Wing’s AutoLoader for curbside pickup.

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Video Friday: Robot Soccer Finals

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The video is recorded in Perugia Italy. [ In association with universities, institutes and development companies, we are developing research platforms whose basic technical principles are based on nature. Paper ] MIT CSAIL grad students speak about what they think is the most important unsolved problem in computer science today. [

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