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Video Friday: Tap Finger, Move Mountain

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Cybathlon Challenges : 02 February 2024, ZURICH, SWITZERLAND Eurobot Open 2024 : 8–11 May 2024, LA ROCHE-SUR-YON, FRANCE Enjoy today’s videos! Gravis Robotics ] Universal Robots introduced the UR30 at IREX, which can lift 30kg- not the 63.5kg that it says on the tire, that’s the weight of the UR30 itself. Available for preorder now.

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Air Liquide launches second Scientific Challenge on essential small molecules; hydrogen in two out of three topics

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How can our Essential Small Molecules help rise to the challenge of meeting the dietary needs of 9 billion people in a healthy, affordable, sustainable and environmentally friendly way? Topic #03 on sustainable food production: “Sustainable Farm to Fork”. Moreover, the Group will fund collaboration projects to up to €1.5

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This Rwandan Engineer is Learning How to Manage Humanitarian Projects

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Thanks to a scholarship from IEEE Smart Village , she is now getting that education through the master’s degree program in development practice from Regis University , in Denver. She acknowledges she would not have been able to afford to attend Regis without help from IEEE.

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Hydro-Québec, Université de Montréal, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and Süd-Chemie create entity for sublicensing of lithium iron phosphate battery materials; 4 new sublicensees

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LFP material was discovered at the University of Texas in Austin in 1995 and licensed to Hydro-Québec. The basic LMP/LFP material technology was invented and patented by Dr. John Goodenough of the University of Texas in Austin. Initial sublicense agreements have been concluded with two Japanese entities—Sumitomo Osaka Cement Co.

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New German High-Energy Li-ion Battery Consortium Headed by BASF; 21M Investment from German Government

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Under the leadership of BASF Future Business GmbH, eighteen partners from industry and science have formed the cross-sector consortium “HE-Lion” to develop and bring to market safer, more affordable high-energy lithium-ion batteries over the next four to six years for use in plug-in hybrid automobiles and electric-vehicles. Earlier post.)

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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. So we called 20 subjects from all across Switzerland, some people also from outside Switzerland, with different levels of expertise. Faster, it turns out, than even the best human drone racing champions. But they were quite good. Bry: Yeah.

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EAA National Board nominations from across North America

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The end of ownership usually results in used sales, which increases affordability and adoption. He has a 34-year career as a journalist, advertiser, marketer, publicist, event planner, teacher, and fundraiser for-profit and not-for-profit organizations including Motorola, Business Marketing Association, and Michigan State University.