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Texas Automated Vehicle Proving Ground Partnership forms; applying for national designation

Green Car Congress

Cities and regions across Texas are partnering with the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI), the University of Texas at Austin’s Center for Transportation Research (CTR), and Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) to form the Texas Automated Vehicle (AV) Proving Ground Partnership. El Paso Area — Tornillo/Guadalupe Port of Entry.

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Facilitating advanced nuclear reactor technology through fuel innovation

Innovation News Network

Elizabeth Sooby PhD, Assistant Professor at The University of Texas at San Antonio, discusses the need for fuel innovation and discovery to enable advanced nuclear reactor technology. The post Facilitating advanced nuclear reactor technology through fuel innovation appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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DOE awards $20M to 10 hydrogen production and delivery technologies projects

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University of Hawaii of Honolulu, Hawaii will receive $3 million to develop photoelectrodes for direct solar water splitting. University of Colorado, Boulder of Boulder, Colorado will receive $2 million to develop a novel solar-thermal reactor to split water with concentrated sunlight. FuelCell Energy Inc. Nuvera Fuel Cells Inc.

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Video Friday: Monocycle Robot With Legs

Cars That Think

Unitree ] We present an avatar system designed to facilitate the embodiment of humanoid robots by human operators, validated through iCub3, a humanoid developed at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia. I can relate; that’s my reaction when I lift weights, too. IHMC ] Thanks, Robert!

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Basic transportation, EV style

Electric Auto Association

Members of the new University of Texas San Antonio EAA chapter ready for go-kart competition. Two years later, the family moved to San Antonio to open a second Johnny Rockets. There, Javier enrolled at the University of Texas San Antonio (UTSA) as a freshman committed to earning a mechanical engineering degree.

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NSF awards $20 million to two new testbeds to support cloud computing applications and experiments

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While most of the original concepts for cloud computing came from the academic research community, as clouds grew in popularity, industry drove much of the design of their architecture. —Kate Keahey, a scientist at the Computation Institute at the University of Chicago and principal investigator for Chameleon.

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SwRI, UTSA researchers show biochar is low-cost, effective method to treat fracking water

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Researchers at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) have determined that biochar, a substance produced from plant matter, is a safe, effective and inexpensive method to treat flowback water following hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. —Maoqi Feng, SwRI.

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