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Helping Olympic athletes optimize performance, one stride at a time with AI
Jacqueline Choi
August 16, 2024
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👟 Helping Olympic athletes optimize performance, one stride at a time with AI
🪲 Self-powered robotic 'bugs' can skim across water to detect environmental data
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The Olympics is all about pushing the frontiers of human performance. As some athletes prepared for the Paris 2024 games, that included using a new technology developed at MIT.nano.
For Striv founder Axl Chen, the 2024 games are the perfect opportunity to show that the product can help athletes at the highest level. But Chen also believes their product can help many non-Olympians.
“I think a lot of people have already explored vision and language, but tactile sensing as a way of perceiving the world seemed more open to me,” Chen says. “I thought tactile sensors and AI could make for powerful new products.”
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Futurists predict that more than one trillion autonomous nodes will be integrated into all human activities by 2035 as part of the "internet of things." Soon, pretty much any object -- big or small -- will feed information to a central database without the need for human involvement.
Making this idea tricky is that 71% of the Earth's surface is covered in water, and aquatic environments pose critical environmental and logistical issues. Researchers at Binghamton University, State University of New York have developed a self-powered "bug" that can skim across the water, and they hope it will revolutionize aquatic robotics.
To consider these challenges, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has started a program called the Ocean of Things.
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