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Neste Oil joins aireg to promote the deployment of biofuels in aviation

Green Car Congress

Among the current 29 members of aireg are oil companies, airlines, airplane and engine manufacturers, research institutions, and universities such as Total, Lufthansa, Boeing, Rolls-Royce, Technical University Munich (TUM), and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

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Video Friday: TurtleBot 4

Cars That Think

Our small development kit (housing an FPGA) sat on top of the robot dog guides Hopper, using Opteran See to provide 360 degrees of stabilised vision, and Opteran Sense to sense objects and avoid collisions. Dynamic sensing unlocks flexible and reliable data capture for improved site awareness, safety, and efficiency.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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Structured VLSI design, now taught in more than 100 universities. And unlike university research laboratories, PARC had one unifying vision: it would develop “the architecture of information.” The ideas developed at PARC found their way into a number of commercial products, companies, and publications, shown here as leafy branches.

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Wall Street Report

Plug In Partners

In the 1990s, as a mechanical-engineering professor at the University of California here, Dr. Frank produced another shocker. That was the Explorer's downfall last year in an annual contest held by the Department of Energy to see which American university could build the most efficient-running car. It had gobs of torque," he recalls.

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What If Europe Loses Russian Natural Gas?

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But Rosenow explains that “there is a shortage of installers in Europe; there is a shortage of kit.” And on 8 March, the Washington Post reported that the White House was taking this suggestion under serious consideration. manufacturers to help the EU rapidly expand the deployment of heat pumps. percent of what Russia provides the EU.

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Stretch 3 Brings Us Closer to Realistic Home Robots

Cars That Think

The idea of a robot that could handle dishes or laundry is tempting, but is it near-term or medium-term realistic? This is an example of turning innovation from the community of Stretch users into product features, a product development approach that seems to be working well for Hello Robot. But that’s where we want to go.”

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

When Lutz first proposed creating an electric car in 2003, the idea "bombed" inside GM, he says. "I Some answers on consumer expectations and daily performance should come out of evaluations of the prototypes to be conducted at the Irvine and Berkeley campuses of the University of California that will begin later this month.

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