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Video Friday: Googly Eye

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CHI 2023 ] This video captures a series of experiments carried out at West Virginia University on how to rescue a stuck planetary rover with another rover. Can they help the average person beat a high jumper? All experiments were done with human remote control by three operators: two rover drivers and a manipulator operator.

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Celebrating 25 Years of IEEE Women in Engineering

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To mark its 25th anniversary, the group is planning competitions, panels, seminars, and other events this year. The IEEE senior member, who is a physics professor at the University of Manchester , England, is overseeing the anniversary celebrations. Its in-person events are to take place at the San Diego Convention Center.

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Video Friday: Dusty at Work

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I don't know whether it's intentional or not, but it's go so much personality somehow. : ROSCon 2021 – October 20-21, 2021 – [Online Event] Silicon Valley Robot Block Party – October 23, 2021 – Oakland, CA, USA Let us know if you have suggestions for next week, and enjoy today's videos. I love watching Dusty Robotics' field printer at work.

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The Godfather of South Korea’s Chip Industry

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Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) assumed top posts in the industry as well as coveted positions teaching or researching semiconductors at universities and government institutes. He studied at Seoul National University and then at Columbia University, in New York City, where he earned his doctorate under.

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The Unsung Inventor Who Chased the LED Rainbow

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the John Bardeen professor of electrical and computer engineering and physics at the University of Illinois, Urbana , and the creator of the first LEDs. Craford met him at a seminar, where Holonyak was ex­plaining his work in LEDs. The photographs appeared in the original print version. and joined the Illinois faculty.

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Video Friday: Mini Pupper

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When you can't have robots fight each other in person because pandemic, you have to get creative. ICRA 2021 ] This week's Lockheed Martin Robotics Seminar features Henrik Christensen on "Deploying autonomous vehicles for micro-mobility on a university campus." [ UMD ] Duco ] Thanks Sai!

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