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Kicking It With Robots

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In July of 2010, I traveled to Singapore to take care of my then 6-year-old son Henry while his mother attended an academic conference. Earlier in 2010, the same year as my first RoboCup, Apple introduced what was in part pitched as the future of magazines: the iPad. But I was really there for the robots.

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Battelle-R&D Magazine forecast predicts 5.2% growth in 2012 global R&D spending to $1.4+T, largely driven by Asian economies; US companies and tech providers to boost energy R&D spending by 23.1% to $6.7B

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The Battelle-R&D Magazine annual Global R&D Funding Forecast concludes that global research and development (R&D) spending will grow by about 5.2% The team from Battelle and R&D Magazine forecast that a 2.1% Industrial R&D spending 2010. Global R&D spending 2011. Source: 2012 Global R&D Funding Forecast. Click to enlarge.

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GM: Electric Opel by 2010

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Thomson Financial reports in Forbes that General Motors Corp unit Opel plans to bring out an all-electric car at the end of 2010. GM's European chief Carl-Peter Forster is said to mention the EV in an excerpt from tomorrow's Auto Motor Sport magazine.

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Petrobras moves up 10 spots to 8th largest publicly trade company in world

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Petrobras, the Brazilian oil, gas and energy company, has become the world’s eighth-largest publicly traded company, according to a ranking prepared by Forbes magazine. In this edition of the ranking, the Company moved up ten positions compared to 2010, when it held the 18 th place.

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How To Get 85 MPG In a 2010 Lexus HS 250h Hybrid: Go Downhill

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That's what Lexus magazine auto editor Clark Heideger did. miles per gallon in the new 2010 Lexus HS 250h, the. You have to give corporate PR guys some credit when they publish an article on the astoundingly high mileage their car got in a road test, and then dismiss the whole thing as "silly and totally unscientific."

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Ferrari Confirms Upcoming Hybrid Version Of 599 Coupe

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During this week’s 2010 Ferrari Formula One presentation, Ferrari CEO Luca di Montezelmo announced that a prototype road-going hybrid Ferrari 599 will be displayed at the Geneva Motor Show in March, and that a hybrid iteration of the 599 coupe is scheduled for production. Motor Authority.

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Saifur Rahman is 2022 IEEE President-Elect

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National Science Foundation Advisory Committee for International Science and Engineering from 2010 to 2013. Rahman is the founding editor in chief of the IEEE Electrification Magazine and the IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy. Rahman is also the founder and chairman of BEM Controls in McLean, Va., He served as chair of the U.S.

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