Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2012

Ford Motor Company plans to open a Silicon Valley-based Research Lab—its first dedicated R&D office on the west coast—to scout for new technology and to find new partners to innovate personal mobility solutions for the future. —Paul Mascarenas, Ford chief technical officer and vice president of Research and Innovation.

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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. The host device is where all user code runs—it reads vehicle data over USB from the CAN translation module and makes it available to developers in a programmatic way.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 25, 2022

With advanced safety sensors and class-leading autonomous driving capabilities, OTTO Lifter works alongside people, other vehicles, and existing infrastructure; providing businesses a safer material handling solution for as low as $9 per hour. DFKI ] Welcome to feeling bad about your level of flexibility, with Digit.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2013

Following on the launch of its first software developer program ( earlier post ), Ford is now turning its attention to the growing trend in hardware hacking by transforming vehicles into an experimental development environment. The read-only system is designed to keep everything isolated from the vehicle control systems.

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OCTOBER 1, 2021

The basic kit is $250, which includes just the custom parts, so you'll need to add your own 3D printed parts, some of the electronics, and the battery. A complete Mini Pupper kit is $500, or get it fully assembled for an extra $60. MIT ] Among the first electronic mobile robots were the experimental machines of neuroscientist W.

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AUGUST 11, 2023

MIT ] Legged robots are heading to Mars! [ Fun experiment aiming to gather data [for modeling] autonomous vehicles’ motion on ice. This is related to our vehicle dynamics work led by Dominic Baril, a Ph.D. ANYbotics ] What meal is this robot kitting? Somatic ] Watch until the end, which is mildly NSFW. student in our lab!

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