Grasping unknown objects in unstructured environments is one of the most challenging and demanding tasks for robotic bin picking systems. Developing a holistic approach is crucial to building such ...

Ellie Friesen raced toward the finish of the state meet 3,000-meter run three years ago, as she had most of the season — strong and confident. But as she neared the end of the final lap, she ...

Traditional deep-learning models use pre-trained knowledge on large-scale datasets to fine-tune the model. This strategy significantly improves the performance of downstream tasks such as object ...

The first survey, in 2018, confirmed people in three southern suburbs had noticed the birds prying open their trash bins with their beaks and claws. By the end of 2019, surveys showed the behavior ...

The provincewide policy, which took effect in fall 2024, made Manitoba one of the first in Canada to formally restrict ...

A staggering 70 per cent of garbage thrown into Douglas Shire’s household bins does not need to go in there, a new council report has found. Douglas Shire Council audits of what people throw out show ...

But the DSC is not intending to bring in that system any time soon, with no mention whatsoever in the draft report of any possible need for household green bins - the report states that many ...

The title track is a bluesy combination of nostalgia and being in the present, in “the eternal now,” as the singer calls it. Early reviews are calling it one of Van the Man’s best pieces of ...

Now, Friesen heads to Pocono, which he considers somewhat of a home track. In eight Truck starts there, he has one top-five and three top-10 finishes, including a seventh place last year.