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Warehouse Robots to Automate Your Living Room

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A couple decades ago Kiva Systems had the brilliant and certainly very valuable realization that it was possible to make an entire environment (like a fulfillment warehouse) robotic without filling that entire environment with robots. Kachaka isn’t that, obviously, but it’s wheeling its cute little shelf in the right direction.

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IEA: improving efficiency of road-freight transport critical to reduce oil-demand growth; three areas of focus

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Improving the efficiency of road-freight transport is critical to reducing the growth in oil demand, carbon emissions and air pollution over the next decades, according to the International Energy Agency’s latest report, The Future of Trucks: Implications for energy and the environment. —“The Future of Trucks”.

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Daimler joins multiple initiatives for a sustainable raw material supply chain; future focus on battery cell supply chain

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The aim is to intensify dialogue with all stakeholders in the aluminum supply chain to achieve continually measurable improvements in the areas of social affairs, the environment and responsible business management—from aluminum production and usage to recycling.

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Former Royal Navy Officer Advocates for LGBTQ+ engineers

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At the time, he was an officer with the United Kingdom’s Royal Navy , where until 2000, being homosexual was grounds for immediate dismissal. A new career in railway engineering After being moved to a desk job when his appointment on HMS Superb ended in 2000, Gracey decided he wanted a new challenge. s railways. “It

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ITF: measures to decrease road freight CO2 emissions

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Moving goods by road consumes about 50% of all diesel produced; 80% of the global net increase in diesel use since 2000 comes from road freight. It collects insights held at a workshop organized by the International Transport Forum in June 2018 in Paris and features the results of a survey among experts.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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Soon Mazor, then a research engineer at Intel, joined him, and the two pursued Hoff’s ideas, developing a simple instruction set that could be implemented with about 2000 transistors. The Intel marketing department they estimated that sales [of microprocessors] might total only 2000 chips a year. You’re crazy.” But word went out.

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The EV Transition Explained: Reshaping Labor Markets

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For instance, an in-depth study by Princeton University’s Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment assessed different U.S. Again, determining how much impact will be directly attributed to EVs versus the change to renewable energy is hard to unravel. policy scenarios from conservative-to-aggressive for achieving net-zero by 2050.

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