Thank you very much, nick. Thanks so much to everybody for setting this up. What a great way to adapt to our obviously troubled times. Im glad were doing this even if if were not in aspen particularly. I wish we were all there, obviously. Secretary rice, thank you for joining me today. Thank you for taking the time to do this. Congratulations to you on taking over the Hoover Institution. I hope congratulations is the right way to look at it. I cant imagine how youre going to squeeze in in the figure skating and the golfing with all that. But if anybody can, i know it will be you. And thank you, too, and nick by the way for helping with that book on james baker. You were both very general with your time and recollections to make sure we got that right. I just want to throw that in there too. So secretary rice, were going to start right off with some pretty big stuff. This is a really tumultuous time in our history both here at home and around the world. Big things are happening. And it
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Brunswick Partners with Carnegie Robotics
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Brunswick Corp. announced that it formed a partnership with Carnegie Robotics.
Brunswick
said in a statement that the alliance combines its ACES (autonomy, connectivity, electrification and shared access) strategy with Carnegie’s expertise in autonomous technology to create driver assistance and autonomous solutions that improve the boating experience.
“This partnership, in addition to other investments we have made to support our ACES strategy, will augment our internal capability to develop solutions that advance our autonomy stack in critical areas such as applied sensor technology, computer vision and machine learning, product architecture definition, functional safety and artificial intelligence,” Brunswick CEO Dave Foulkes said in the statement.
Brunswick Corporation Enhances Marine Autonomous Technology Capabilities Through New Partnership with Carnegie Robotics
METTAWA, Ill., April 14, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Brunswick Corporation (NYSE: BC) announced today that it has entered into a new partnership with Carnegie Robotics LLC (CRL), a leading provider of advanced robotics, sensors and autonomous solutions for a wide range of commercial and government applications. The collaboration will combine CRL’s depth and breadth in autonomous technology with Brunswick’s leadership position in the marine industry and continued execution of its ACES (Autonomy, Connectivity, Electrification and Shared Access) strategy, creating advanced driver assistance and autonomous solutions to improve the boating experience across a range of applications and scenarios.
February 13th, 2021
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If you thought rocket science was hard, try training a computer to safely change lanes while behind the wheel of a full-size SUV in heavy drivetime traffic. Autonomous vehicle developers have faced myriad similar challenged over the past three decades but nothing, it seems, turns the wheels of innovation quite like a bit of good, old-fashioned competition one which DARPA was only more than happy to provide.
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Insider senior editor and former
Wired Transportation editor, Alex Davies takes the reader on an immersive tour of DARPA’s “Grand Challenges” the agency’s autonomous vehicle trials which drew top talents from across academia and the private sector in effort to spur on the state of autonomous vehicle technology as well as profiles many of the elite engineers that took place in the competitions.