Handle – the new creature of Boston Dynamics
Handle is definitely a big Wow. From the youtube video description: “Handle is a research robot that stands 6.5 ft
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Luigi Freda
Robotics & Computer Vision Engineer, PhD
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Driverless cars that ‘see’ the road ahead
Micheal Milford explains how to make a driverless car see the road ahead. From his Google+ post: “We were asked to
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Microsoft HoloLens brings New Vision to Elevator Maintenance of Thyssenkrupp
Using Microsoft HoloLens, 24,000+ service technicians of Thyssenkrupp will be able to visualize and identify problems with elevators ahead of
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DJI launches ultraportable iOS-connected Mavic Pro camera drone
Drone maker DJI unveiled its latest flying camera: a foldable, portable, sub-$1,000 device dubbed the Mavic Pro. This seems to
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The Going Rate for Self-driving Talent is $10 million per Person, word of Sebastian Thrun
According to this post, Sebastian Thrun said “Uber has just bought a half-a-year-old company [Otto] with 70 employees for almost $700
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A Self-Driving Fleet Arrives in Pittsburgh This Month – Uber Steps on the Accelerator
Uber is definitely stepping on the accelerator… “Starting later this month, Uber will allow customers in downtown Pittsburgh to summon
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Lidar Sensor onto Single Chip
“At MIT’s Photonic Microsystems Group, the authors are developing a lidar-on-a-chip system that is smaller than a dime, has no
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Nanowire-based Battery Material that can be Recharged Hundreds of Thousands of Times
University of California, Irvine researchers have invented nanowire-based battery material that can be recharged hundreds of thousands of times. This
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Itseez Acquired by Intel
OpenCV originated at Intel, and is now back at Intel. People wonder about the possibility that OpenCV can stop beeing
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Google Tensor Processing Units (TPUs)
Google revealed the TPU (Tensor Processing Unit), a custom ASIC designed and built specifically for machine learning applications.
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Google New Plan: Map the Interior World in 3-D
Everyone knows about Google Map and use it. But now the internet giant has a bigger target: it wants to digitally map
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3D Cameras
You can find on this page a nice overview of the offerings in the 3D camera marketplace. A wide set of
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EchoPixel’s VR lets Doctors Look Inside Your Body
Nice application of 3D reconstruction from radiology scans. “With EchoPixel and 3D glasses, internal organs pop off the screen like
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Drone Racing and Drone Fighting: Next Sports in the Modern Age
Drone racing will be for sure one of the next sport in modern age. High-tech ultra-low-latency video links make this
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Meta Augmented Glasses
How to design a proper demo for augmented glasses. Looking behind the lenses… “Our promotional videos are shot from behind
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