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ExxonMobil, MIT and Synthetic Genomics team publishes results of LCA on algal biofuels; potential for large reductions in GHG

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It is important to note that none of the oil recovery processes described in this paper are currently practiced at the commercial scale with algae feedstock. Michael Matturro, Corporate Programs Laboratory Director for ExxonMobil, provided a brief overview of the scope of the work.

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Boston Dynamics’ Founder on the Future of Robotics

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But as the company focuses more on commercializing its technology , Raibert has become more interested in pursuing the long-term vision of what robotics can be. Marc Raibert Raibert was a professor at Carnegie Mellon and MIT before founding Boston Dynamics in 1992. He now leads the Boston Dynamics AI Institute.

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New nanolithia cathodes may address technical drawbacks of Li-air batteries; scalable, cheap and safer Li-air battery system

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An international team from MIT, Argonne National Laboratory and Peking University has demonstrated a lab-scale proof-of-concept of a new type of cathode for Li-air batteries that could overcome the current drawbacks to the technology, including a high potential gap (>1.2 V) Nature Energy 1, Article number: 16111 doi: 10.1038/nenergy.2016.111.

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Why Facebook (Or Meta) Is Making Tactile Sensors for Robots

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AI is of course much worse than humans at many, many, many things as well, but that debate goes well beyond Facebook Meta and certainly well beyond the scope of this article, which is about tactile sensing for robots. The DIGIT touch sensor is based on the GelSight style of sensor, which was first conceptualized at MIT over a decade ago.

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Car Crash Prevention System Wins Student $10,000 IEEE Scholarship

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Commercial trucks already have guard bars on the back to prevent such accidents, so instead of looking to improve trucks, Bayhan decided to build an attachment for cars. The incoming freshman at MIT won $600. The concept of a 3D-printed 3D printer was a theory before Minnick began his project three years ago. Brian Minnick.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

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The concept behind V2G had gained traction in the late 1990s after California’s landmark zero-emission-vehicle (ZEV) mandate went into effect and compelled automakers to commercialize electric cars. And with the revival of the EV, the V2G concept was reborn. The experiment seemed to prove the feasibility of the technology.

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How E Ink Developed Full-Color e-Paper

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This is the moment that the concept of electronic paper, or e-paper, went mainstream. Its story began a decade earlier, in 1997, at the MIT Media Lab , when it was created by two students, J.D. After all, black-and-white e-paper took only 10 years from concept to commercialization. We needed something entirely new.

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