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Video Friday: Tap Finger, Move Mountain

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Gravis Robotics ] Universal Robots introduced the UR30 at IREX, which can lift 30kg- not the 63.5kg that it says on the tire, that’s the weight of the UR30 itself. Universal Robots ] IREX is taking place in Japan right now, and here’s a demo of Kaleido, a humanoid robot from Kawasaki. Available for preorder now.

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Video Friday: Monocycle Robot With Legs

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Eurobot Open 2024 : 8–11 May 2024, LA ROCHE-SUR-YON, FRANCE ICRA 2024 : 13–17 May 2024, YOKOHAMA, JAPAN Enjoy today’s videos! Starship ] By blending 2D images with foundation models to build 3D feature fields, a new MIT method helps robots understand and manipulate nearby objects with open-ended language prompts.

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IEEE Honors Pioneering Engineers

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MADNI University of California, Los Angeles “For pioneering contributions to the development and commercialization of innovative sensing and systems technologies, and for distinguished research leadership.” Kumar Texas A&M University College Station “For seminal contributions to the modeling, analysis, and design of wireless networks.”

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Toyota Research Institute CEO Pratt outlines initial AI/robotics mandates; trillion-mile reliability

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The investment is in addition to the $50 million investment over the next five years with MIT and Stanford, each close by TRI’s new offices, to establish joint fundamental artificial intelligence research centers at each university.) Home robots may be even more personally prized in our future than cars have been in our past.

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The Essential Vannevar Bush

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Born in 1890 in Massachusetts, he came to prominence as the nation’s top designer of computers while at MIT In the 1930s. During World War II, as personal science and engineering adviser to President Roosevelt, he led all research by civilians for the military and organized the Manhattan Project.

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Lotfi Zadeh and the Birth of Fuzzy Logic

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Fuzzy theory is wrong, wrong, and pernicious,” said William Kahan, a highly regarded professor of computer sciences and mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley in 1975. Kalman in 1972, who is now a professor at Florida State University in Tallahassee. The denunciations were sometimes extreme. But Zadeh never wavered.

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Video Friday: Turkey Sandwich

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Sanctuary ] Ayato Kanada, an assistant professor at Kyushu University in Japan, wrote in to share "the world's simplest omnidirectional mobile robot." MIT ] The researchers from North Carolina State University have recently developed a fast and efficient soft robotic swimmer that swims resembling human's butterfly-stroke style.

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