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UW startup creates underwater robotics with a human touch

It should be just as easy to use a robotic arm as it is to use your own hand. That’s the thinking behind University of Washington startup BluHaptics, which is taking telerobotics — controlling robots from a distance — to a new level: underwater.

Using technology developed by Howard Chizeck’s lab in the Department of Electrical Engineering, a team of UW scientists and engineers working at the Applied Physics Laboratory is creating a control system for underwater remotely operated vehicles, or ROVs. (more…)

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AT&T And IBM Join Forces To Deliver New Innovations For The Internet of Things

Cities, Utilities and Other Industries to Benefit from Interconnected, Intelligent Devices

ARMONK, NY and DALLAS, TX – 18 Feb 2014: AT&T* and IBM today announced a new global alliance agreement to develop solutions that help support the “Internet of Things.”  The companies will combine their analytic platforms, cloud, and security technologies with privacy in mind to gain more insights on data collected from machines in a variety of industries. (more…)

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