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Ford opening up Silicon Valley research lab

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The new Ford lab will be located in the San Francisco Bay area of California and will serve as a hub for independent technology projects and identification of new research investments and partners located along the west coast.

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Video Friday: Quadruped Transformer

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B&R Automation ] How does the Waymo Driver safely handle interactions with cyclists in dense urban environments like San Francisco? He founded Revolution Robotics; a non-profit dedicated to making robotics hardware and software kits accessible to all communities, to make his vision into a reality.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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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. The 1985 Siggraph art show in San Francisco alone received 4000 entries.

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