Cars That Think

MARCH 17, 2023

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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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2013

The OpenXC kit includes a vehicle interface module based on the popular Arduino platform developers can use to read data from the vehicle’s internal communications network. Early in 2012 Ford shipped the first OpenXC beta toolkits to universities such as the University of Michigan, MIT, Stanford University and HCL Technologies in India.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2012

Open-source hardware and software developer kits: Working with New York City-based startup Bug Labs, Ford is launching OpenXC, a research platform that will allow developers to access key vehicle data in order to innovate cloud-based apps and services.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Ford is now shipping beta test kits of its open-source connectivity research platform, OpenXC ( earlier post ), to developers and universities around the world. OpenXC architecture. Click to enlarge. As of January 2012, OpenXC was only supported on a few Ford vehicles: 2011 - 2012 Focus; 2012 Mustang; 2012 Fiesta; and 2011 Figo.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 4, 2022

The first personal computer developed in the United States is commonly thought to be the MITS Altair, which sold as a hobbyist’s kit in 1976. At nearly the same time the Apple I became available, also in kit form. Collaboration with several universities has led to a kit for integrating new chips into working computer systems.

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APRIL 21, 2009

But we want to give them cause to continue to press forward." ( MIT Technology Review ). The potential [of plug-in hybrids] is terrific." ( MIT Technology Review ) 11/30/06 "We want it as much as anybody else, but there are limits right now in terms of technology. Marketwatch ). Bloomberg ). Its not lack of desire.

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