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Northwestern team devises new computational design framework for optimized coatings for Li-ion cathodes to prolong cycle life

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Researchers at Northwestern University, with a colleague from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, have developed a new computational design framework that can pinpoint optimal materials with which to coat the cathode in lithium-ion batteries. Muratahan Aykol, Soo Kim, Vinay I.

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Ride-sharer Grab to invest $700M in “Grab 4 Indonesia” 2020 master plan

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The “Grab 4 Indonesia” 2020 master plan follows a strong year of growth in Indonesia for Grab, with its GrabCar and GrabBike businesses each growing more than 600% over the course of 2016. To date, the company has more than 630,000 drivers and 33 million downloads across the region. Invest in technopreneurship for social good.

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Tesla’s Autopilot Depends on a Deluge of Data

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Such systems have now effectively solved the task of everyday driving, including for a multitude of road users, different weather conditions, and road types, says Henry Liu, director of Mcity , a public-private mobility research partnership at the University of Michigan.

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CMU county-level study shows plug-ins have larger or smaller lifecycle GHG than gasoline ICE depending on regional factors

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The team from Carnegie Mellon University led by Dr. Jeremy Michalek accounted for regional differences in emissions due to marginal grid mix; ambient temperature; patterns of vehicle miles traveled (VMT); and driving conditions (city versus highway). —Yuksel et al.

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Drones That Can Fly Better Than You Can

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Davide Scaramuzza directs the Robotics and Perception group at the University of Zürich. This also has already been done, not by my group, but a group of Richard Hartley at the University of Canberra in Australia. Faster, it turns out, than even the best human drone racing champions. So we started working more and more in simulation.

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Indian startups compete in race for affordable autonomous driving – ET Auto

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You download some apps and it becomes a radar to help drive your car,” he said. Singh also installed Panda, a universal car interface built by Comma AI that allows devices to issue commands and instructions to cars while in motion. That hasn’t fazed the makers of FlowPilot, which doesn’t need proprietary hardware, as OpenPilot does. “We

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Phones take the wheel on autonomous test drive – ET Auto

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You download some apps and it becomes a radar to help drive your car,” he said. Singh also installed Panda, a universal car interface built by Comma AI that allows devices to issue commands and instructions to cars while in motion. That hasn’t fazed the makers of FlowPilot, which doesn’t need proprietary hardware, as OpenPilot does. “We

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