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Tech: The Whats and Hows of MAP Sensors

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Tech: The Whats and Hows of MAP Sensors A Critical Component for Engine Efficiency This article may contain affiliate links. Automotive sensors play a vital role in the everyday functioning of your car. The number and type of sensors in modern cars are increasing by the day.

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Ukraine Is Riddled With Land Mines. Drones and AI Can Help

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But constructing a map for the full area that included the specific coordinates of all the detected mines in under 72 hours was simply not possible with any reasonable computational resources. Early on a June morning in 2023, my colleagues and I drove down a bumpy dirt road north of Kyiv in Ukraine. All our hard work paid off.

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Q&A: Inside DARPA’s Subterranean Challenge

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To do well, the robots would have to work in teams to traverse and map completely unknown areas spanning kilometers, search out a variety of artifacts, and identify their locations with pinpoint accuracy under strict time constraints. Deep below the Louisville, Ky., zoo lies a network of enormous caverns carved out of limestone.

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Video Friday: Guitar Bot

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We’ll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months; here's what we have so far ( send us your events !): GA Tech ] This experiment demonstrated the latest progress of flying humanoid robot Jet-HR2. It's a wicked game. [ YouTube ] Thanks, Zhifeng! Michigan Robotics ] Thanks, Bruce!

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Tech: John Deere: High Tech Down on the Farm

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Tech: John Deere: High Tech Down on the Farm Higher Farm Yields through Innovation, Advanced Technology and Sustainability The sight of a farmer sitting in a tractor for hours and hours working a field is being replaced by a semi-automated agricultural machine with no human behind the wheel.

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Drones That Can Fly Better Than You Can

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Ackerman: So what still fascinates you about drones after so long? Scaramuzza: So what fascinates me about drones is their freedom. On this episode of Chatbot , we’ll be talking with Davide Scaramuzza and Adam Bry about agile autonomous drones. Davide Scaramuzza directs the Robotics and Perception group at the University of Zürich.

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Ford announces Smart Mobility plan; 25 initial projects

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As outlined by Ford Motor Company Executive Chairman Bill Ford in his keynote at the 2012 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the Blueprint for Mobility defines the start of Ford’s thinking on what transportation will look like in 2025 and beyond, and the technologies, business models and partnerships needed to get there. “To

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