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Ohio workshop seeks ideas for National Network for Manufacturing Innovation

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The workshop will be held 9 July at the Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland. and local Cleveland organizations that include NASA's Glenn Research Center, Cuyahoga Community College and Case Western Reserve University. They also will support education and training of an advanced manufacturing work force.

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NASA testing new boundary layer ingesting (BLI) propulsor; 4-8% fuel burn savings over current advanced engines

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MIT and NASA engineers earlier proposed the D8 Series as one future aircraft design concept that uses boundary layer ingestion. NASA is testing the propulsor, designed by United Technologies Research Center with research conducted by Virginia Polytechnic and State University, in its 8' x 6' Wind Tunnel at NASA Glenn in Cleveland, Ohio.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. Industry-Informed Physics-Based Monitoring for Asset Management and Maintenance Optimization, $500,000 Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, Calif. Solar Energy Industries Association, Washington, D.C. Combustion Research & Flow Technology Inc., Pipersville, Pa. New York, N.Y.

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How Zipline Designed Its Droid Delivery System

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So as Zipline nears the official launch of Platform 2, we spoke with Zipline cofounder and CTO Keenan Wyrobek , Platform 2 lead Zoltan Laszlo , and industrial designer Gregoire Vandenbussche to understand exactly why they think this is the best way of solving precision urban drone delivery. We want to be a universal delivery service.

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Video Friday: Autonomous Car Drifting, Aerial-Aquatic Drone, and Jet-Powered Robot

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Goh, Ufuk Topcu, and Avinash Balachandran from University of Texas at Austin, USA, and Toyota Research Institute, Los Altos, Calif., This paper presents a quadrotor prototype of this concept and the design details and realization in practice. body length per second (BL/s), faster than most reported soft crawlers in mm/s and BL/s.

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Army Research Lab team working to design piston engines optimized for JP-8

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Kweon said the design gap is namely due to the fact that not enough information exists in industry and government on the specific combustion characteristics associated with JP-8’s use in intermittent combustion engines. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, there is no “robust” heavy fuel injection system for UAV engines.

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