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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. RoboCup 2024: 17–22 July 2024, EINDHOVEN, NETHERLANDS ICRA@40: 23–26 September 2024, ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS IROS 2024: 14–18 October 2024, ABU DHABI, UAE ICSR 2024: 23–26 October 2024, ODENSE, DENMARK Cybathlon 2024: 25–27 October 2024, ZURICH Enjoy today’s videos! Figure is making progress toward a humanoid robot that can do something useful, but keep in mind that the “full use case” here is...... Read Full article on HadNews

EV Charging Is About To Amp Up in 2024 The year 2024 is set to be a game-changer for electric vehicles (EVs) with a significant focus on enhancing the charging infrastructure. As the demand for EVs continues to grow, the need for accessible and suitable charging solutions has become a top priority. According to a 2023 study by JD Power, one of the major concerns for potential EV adopters is the availability of charging stations for longer trips. However, there is good news on the horizon. In 2024, we can expect a wide-scale rollout of the newly adopted North American charging standard, NAX, also known as the Tesla plug. Major automakers, in...... Read Full article on HadNews

Figure, a developer of autonomous humanoid robots, has signed a major deal with BMW to bring its robots to the car maker’s US factory. Under the commercial pact, Figure announced on Thursday it will initially identify potential applications for its robots on the German multinational’s auto assembly lines. Then will follow a gradual deployment phase where it’s hoped the robots will take over dangerous, tedious, and repetitive tasks from human workers at the Spartanburg, South Carolina plant. The Californian artificial intelligence (AI) company has been developing autonomous general-purpose humanoid robots since 2022 and picked up $70 mi...... Read Full article on HadNews