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Video Friday: Tensegrity Wheels

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Please send us your events for inclusion. Besides the shape-changing capability, using tensegrity as wheels offers several advantages over traditional wheels of similar size, such as shock-absorbing capability without added mass since tensegrity wheels are both lightweight and highly compliant. GE ] Why not Zoidberg?

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BMW Group and IBM collaborate on research on future driver assistance systems; IBM Watson IoT

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IBM and BMW Group researchers are collaborating to explore the role of Watson cognitive computing in personalizing the driving experience and creating more intuitive driver support systems for cars of the future. A team of BMW Group engineers will work alongside IBM’s own team of technologists, developers and consultants.

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Video Friday: StickBot

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Please send us your events for inclusion. From Devin Carroll, who brought us a robot made of ice , is a robot made of sticks. Not sure how the pets feel about that, though. Training a policy in this way opens up a larger set of possible solutions, which allows the robot to learn more complex behaviors.

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Mercedes-Benz running automated test drive in Shanghai; infrastructure peculiarities

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The high density of cars, two-wheelers, three-wheelers and pedestrians and the associated traffic behavior in Chinese cities pose different requirements on automated driving functions than in Europe or the US. million kilometers in Europe, the US, China, Australia and South Africa, and more than 1.2

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BESC proteomic analysis of Yellowstone thermophile could aid cellulosic biofuel production

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The study of proteins (proteomics) of thermophilic bacteria first found in Yellowstone’s hot springs are furthering efforts at the Department of Energy’s BioEnergy Science Center (BESC) toward developing commercially viable ethanol production from crops such as switchgrass. By comparing how C.

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Is Exponential EV Adoption in the U.S. an Expensive Headache for Utilities or an Opportunity for New Revenue?

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EV adoption in the US passed the tipping point for mass adoption a while ago. By Q1, 2021, 5% of all new car sales in the US were EVs. This is great news for the environment, but the US needs the infrastructure in place to keep all those EVs charged. But here’s the problem. The demand comes in peaks.

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REE closes $15M share offering, links with Airbus, and showcases demo EV at Work Truck Week

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The combination of all this technology is the P7-C electric truck , which began deliveries in January following certification in the US, the first of its kind to do so. On Tuesday, REE announced it had been selected by the aerospace subsidiary of Airbus SE to provide technological insight.