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Hopping control

Hopping control is the robotics problem of making a one-legged robot hop in place, run at a set speed, and keep its balance, established by Marc Raibert.

Hopping robot for lunar exploration

A hopping robot for lunar exploration is a small robot that crosses the Moon's surface by ballistic jumps, reaching terrain that would trap wheeled rovers, such as boulder fields and crater walls.

Hopsworks

Hopsworks (Hopsworks AB, Stockholm) is an open-source MLOps platform and AI Lakehouse, also known as the Hopsworks Feature Store, built on RonDB, HopsFS, and Kafka for feature, training, and inference pipelines.

Horace S. Beattie

Horace S. "Bud" Beattie (Horace Smart Beattie, 1909–1993) was an American engineer and inventor who spent forty years at IBM, where his laboratory directed the development of the Selectric typewriter introduced in 1961.

Horacio D. Espinosa

Horacio D. Espinosa is an American mechanical engineer, the Walter P. Murphy Professor at Northwestern University, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2020 for bridging nanoscale experimentation and atomistic simulations.

Horacio Pagani (auto executive)

Horacio Pagani is an Italian-Argentine automotive entrepreneur, founder and Chief Designer of Pagani Automobili in Modena, Italy, known for the hand-built carbon fiber Zonda, Huayra, and Utopia hypercars with Mercedes-AMG V12 engines.

HORIBA MIRA

HORIBA MIRA is a British vehicle engineering, research, and testing company at Nuneaton, Warwickshire, founded in 1946 as the Motor Industry Research Association and acquired by Japan's HORIBA in 2015.

Horikawa

Horikawa, or Horikawa Gangu Kogyo, was a Tokyo-based Japanese toy company founded in 1959, best known for its battery-operated tin robots with the signature chest-opening action.

Horizon Air

Horizon Air, or Horizon Air Industries, is a regional airline in the western United States, founded in Seattle in 1981 and owned by Alaska Air Group since 1986.

Horizon Line

Horizon Line is a 2020 Swedish survival thriller directed by Mikael Marcimain, starring Allison Williams and Alexander Dreymon as a couple flying a small plane.

Horizon Oil (company)

Horizon Oil is an Australian oil and gas exploration and production company headquartered in Sydney, producing about 7,300 barrels of oil equivalent per day across five countries.

Horizon Oil Sands

Horizon Oil Sands is an integrated oil sands mine and upgrading complex owned by Canadian Natural Resources, located about 70 km north of Fort McMurray, Alberta.

Horizon Robotics (地平线机器人)

Horizon Robotics (地平线机器人) is a Chinese supplier of energy-efficient computing platforms and software for ADAS and automated driving, founded by Yu Kai in Beijing in 2015 and best known for its Journey automotive chips.

Horizon Robotics Journey

Journey (征程) is a family of automotive-grade AI system-on-chip processors made by Horizon Robotics, a Beijing company founded in 2015, for driver assistance and automated driving.

Horizon Solar

Horizon Solar is a 200-megawatt utility-scale solar power plant near Pearsall in Frio County, Texas, owned by Leeward Renewable Energy and selling its output to Verizon.

Horizon-class frigate

The Horizon-class frigate (Orizzonte class) is a class of four air-defense frigates built jointly by France and Italy, two for each navy, armed with the PAAMS missile system.

Horizontal drilling

Horizontal drilling is a technique that turns a wellbore sideways to run through an oil or gas formation, exposing far more reservoir rock than a vertical well.

Horizonte wind farm

Horizonte wind farm (Parque Eólico Horizonte) is an 816 MW onshore wind farm in the Atacama Desert of Chile, developed and operated by Colbún S.A.

Hormel Foods

Hormel Foods is an American branded food company headquartered in Austin, Minnesota. Founded by George A. Hormel in 1891, it makes SPAM, SKIPPY, Planters, and Jennie-O.

Horn antenna

A horn antenna is a waveguide flared to an open aperture, radiating a beam with moderate to high gain; it is also widely used to feed parabolic reflector antennas.

Horn loudspeaker

A horn loudspeaker couples a speaker driver to a flared acoustic horn, raising efficiency and controlling sound direction; it remains standard in cinema and public-address systems.

Horn River Gas Field

The Horn River gas field is a shale gas play in the Horn River Basin of northeastern British Columbia, Canada, that produced dry natural gas until 2024.

Hornsdale Power Reserve

The Hornsdale Power Reserve (HPR) is a grid-scale energy storage facility in South Australia, operated by Neoen. Commissioned in 2017 and expanded in 2020, it utilized Tesla Powerpack lithium-ion technology.

Hornsea Wind Farm

Hornsea Wind Farm is a series of offshore wind farms in the North Sea off Yorkshire, England, developed by Danish company Ørsted within a licensing zone covering four projects.

Horonobe URL

The Horonobe URL (幌延深地層研究センター) is an underground research laboratory in Horonobe, Hokkaido, Japan, where JAEA studies geological disposal of high-level radioactive waste in sedimentary rock.

Horovod

Horovod is an open source distributed deep learning training framework for TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch, and Apache MXNet, created at Uber in 2017 to scale training across many GPUs.

Horsch

Horsch is a German family-owned manufacturer of agricultural machinery for soil cultivation, seeding, and plant protection, founded by Michael Horsch in 1984 in Schwandorf, Bavaria, with 2025 revenue of 1.08 billion euros.

Horse Hollow Wind Energy Center

Horse Hollow Wind Energy Center is a 735.5 MW wind farm in Taylor and Nolan counties, Texas, the world's largest wind farm when completed in 2006.

Horse tack

Horse tack, also known as horse furniture or horse trappings, is the equipment placed on a horse for riding or driving, principally the saddle, bridle, bit, reins, and harness.

Horse-drawn vehicle

A horse-drawn vehicle is a wheeled cart, wagon, carriage, or coach pulled by horses, the dominant road transport worldwide until automobiles displaced it in the twentieth century.