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MIT and Lamborghini file patent on new MOF material for supercapacitors

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The collaboration began three years ago when Automobili Lamborghini joined the MIT-Italy Program, and took a further step forward in 2017 with the launch of two research projects, one with Professor Mircea Dinc? At MIT, the Dinc? Battery materials.

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MIT researchers develop oxygen permeable membrane that converts CO2 to CO

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MIT researchers have developed a new system that could potentially be used for converting power plant emissions of carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide, and thence into useful fuels for cars, trucks, and planes, as well as into chemical feedstocks for a wide variety of products. 2017), H 2 -assisted CO 2 thermochemical reduction on La 0.9

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Video Friday: Pedipulate

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Filmed in July 2017, this video shows Atlas walking through a “hatch” on a pitching surface. NRL did some interesting stuff with Nexi robots from MIT and made their own videos. MIT CSAIL ] Large industrial asset operators increasingly use robotics to automate hazardous work at their facilities. Software by IHMC Robotics.

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MIT team engineers yeast to boost lipid production for biofuels

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MIT engineers have genetically engineered strains of the oleaginous yeast Yarrowia lipolytica to boost the production of lipids by about 25% compared to previously engineered yeast strains. This requires improving the overall yield of carbohydrate to lipid conversion and productivity. —Qiao et al.

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The Tremendous VR and CG Systems—of the 1960s

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from MIT in 1963. Bert, who went on to a remarkable career in computing himself, distinguished by his roles as a research manager at Xerox PARC and at Sun Laboratories, told his story in his own oral history with the Computer History Museum in 2017. At MIT, Sutherland met with Wesley A. The reason?

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

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Best known as a robotics researcher, academic, and entrepreneur, Brooks is also an authority on AI: he directed the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT until 2007, and held faculty positions at Carnegie Mellon and Stanford before that. You wrote a famous article in 2017, “ The Seven Deadly Sins of AI Prediction. “

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This Robot Could Be the Key to Helping People With Disabilities

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at MIT under Rodney Brooks. In 2017, Kemp and Edsinger founded Hello Robot to make their vision real. Once the challenges with autonomy, interfaces, and reliability are addressed, Henry says, “the conversation will turn to cost issues.” Kemp found a kindred spirit in Aaron Edsinger , who like Kemp had earned a Ph.D.

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