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In order to interact with and manipulate their environments, most legged robots are equipped with a dedicated robot arm, which means additional mass and mechanical complexity compared to standard legged robots. NRL did some interesting stuff with Nexi robots from MIT and made their own videos. Pedipulate ] I learned a new word today!

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concentration due to combustion emissions from (a) power generation; (b) commercial, institutional, residential, and agricultural sources; (c) industry; (d) road transport; (e) other transport; and (f) all UK combustion sources. impact, which can be compared to figures of 10% for industry to 62% for power generation. Click to enlarge.

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The funding round was led by The Engine, the venture firm spun out of MIT that invests in early-stage Tough Tech companies. RISE Robotics' co-founders Arron Acosta and Blake Sessions met while at MIT and formed the company with Toomas Sepp and Kyle Dell’Aquila. Energy Information Administration. —Reed Sturtevant.

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JUNE 10, 2011

” The MIT report said that natural gas should be seen as a “ bridge ” to a low-carbon regime, rather than as the ultimate long-term solution itself. MIT: The Future of Natural Gas. Separately, the International Energy Agency (IEA) released its own report exploring the potential for a “golden age” of gas. Source: IEA.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

A new economic analysis in an issue brief from the Consumer Federation of America (CFA) is recommending that the Obama Administration set a fleet-wide car and light truck fuel economy standard of 60 mpg (3.92 The Obama Administration will release a Notice of Intent for 2017-2025 light duty fuel economy standards on 30 September.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2021

As the company readies for the transition from technology and standards development to broad market adoption, WiTricity has secured advisory support from several of the world’s leading authorities on designing consumer experiences, building leading edge technology, and monetizing intellectual property. New Board of Advisors. Marin Solja?i?,

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NOVEMBER 24, 2019

Armstrong, a professor of chemical engineering at MIT. The study team of MIT faculty, researchers, and students focused on five main. The reference scenario assumes continued strengthening of fuel efficiency standards for LDVs, as well as expanded use of renewables for power generation. —MITEI Director Robert C.

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APRIL 3, 2010

A new MIT report outlines a system-oriented set of coordinated policies to help the light-duty vehicle sector reduce petroleum-based consumption and its accompanying global warming emissions. The study was supported in part by the MIT Energy Initiative. All the pieces are interrelated, and we need them to work together. Heywood et al.

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OCTOBER 25, 2009

This study did not attempt to assess the balance among these effects to determine whether introduction of a ULS jet-fuel standard is cost beneficial. While a mature alternative-fuel industry could improve the resilience of the fuel-supply chain in the US (e.g., From Hileman et al. Click to enlarge. Hileman, David S. Ortiz, James T.

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DECEMBER 17, 2018

24M’s materials design enables up to 5x the area capacity of standard Li-ion. 24M’s Chief Scientist & Co-Founder is Dr. Yet-Ming Chiang, a professor of Material Science and Engineering at MIT and one of the top battery researchers in the world. He previously co-founded American Superconductor and A123 Systems.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2011

those which do not favor one technology over another through consumer incentives, federal subsidies, testing standards or technology-specific credits. Additionally, if only high efficiency ICEs were sold, the average fuel economy would increase from 29 to 38 mpg, a 30 percent increase, according to 5 cycle standards.

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JUNE 9, 2023

The industry standard for dangerous and routine autonomous inspections just got better, now with a brand-new set of features and hardware. Unitree B-W, the ultimate speed all-rounder, combines the advantages of both types of two robots, and continues to bring new exploration and change to the industry.

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APRIL 6, 2017

The bus transportation market is a $6B industry in the US and Canada, with the charter space accounting for $4B of it. Service standards and pricing varies dramatically from company to company, and consumer innovation is not happening to meet changing demands. Bus.com was founded by Wolf Kohlberg and Kyle Boulay in February 2015.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2013

The advanced AC Kinetics software (ACKS), supported by real-time adaptive algorithms, runs on standard drive hardware for motorized equipment in the consumer, industrial, and transportation markets. Electric motors consume 45% of all electric energy produced globally, and two-thirds of the energy consumed for industrial production.

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JULY 2, 2012

The automotive industry moved from a 6V supply to a 12V supply more than 30 years ago—and incurred massive investments across the entire ecosystem. Industry participants believe that for voltage ranges beyond 60V, extensive measures need to be taken to ensure the safety of occupants of the vehicle.

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JUNE 12, 2012

has been awarded a contract from the US Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under its Living Foundries program solicitation ( earlier post ) to develop tools that can expand the scope of Amyris's industrial synthetic biology technology platform across various biological platforms and cell types. 3,628,291 to MIT.

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Floating NPPs can provide a reliable power supply not only to remote settlements, for example, in the Far North and Far East regions, but also to large industrial facilities such as oil platforms. Using established designs minimizes technological risks, says Buongiorno, an associate professor of nuclear science and engineering (NSE) at MIT.

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JANUARY 7, 2022

MIT ] What has NASA's Perseverance rover accomplished since landing on the surface of Mars in February 2021? NASA ] Construction is one of the largest industries on the planet, employing more than 10M workers in the US each year. DARPA ] A year in the life of Agility Robotics. Dusty Robotics ].

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AUGUST 17, 2021

Addressing climate change requires not only a clean electrical grid, but also a clean fuel to reduce emissions from industrial heat, long-haul heavy transportation, and long-duration energy storage. John Deutch, an emeritus Institute Professor at MIT. Ravi Prasher is an Adjunct Professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

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MAY 31, 2017

In that period, CSRC has launched and completed 44 research projects with 23 partner universities, publishing more than 200 papers and presenting at multiple industry conferences. Results have contributed to standards development at international bodies like the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE).

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AUGUST 28, 2013

Nissan said that its engineers have been carrying out intensive research on the technology for years, alongside teams from universities including MIT, Stanford, Oxford, Carnegie Mellon and the University of Tokyo. Nissan Motor Co., Autonomous drive will have implications throughout the design and construction of cars.

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JULY 14, 2022

IEEE RICHARD HAROLD KAUFMANN AWARD Sponsor: IEEE Industry Applications Society EWALD F. IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION AWARD Sponsor: IEEE Robotics and Automation Society DANIELA RUS MIT “For pioneering contributions to the design, realization, and theoretical foundations of innovative distributed, networked autonomous systems.”

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APRIL 7, 2011

million to four industry and academic teams for additional research into ideas to reduce aircraft fuel consumption, emissions and noise in aircraft that could enter service between 2030 and 2035. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Mass., NASA is awarding $16.5 Subsonic Ultra Green Aircraft Research, or SUGAR, $8.8

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MIT ] What has NASA’s Perseverance rover accomplished since landing on the surface of Mars in February 2021? NASA ] Construction is one of the largest industries on the planet, employing more than 10M workers in the US each year. DARPA ] A year in the life of Agility Robotics. Dusty Robotics ].

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AUGUST 28, 2013

founded in 2009 out of MIT ( earlier post ), is an emerging technology company headquartered working to develop the first fully active, regenerative suspension for the automotive, trucking, mass transit, and defense industries. Levant Power Corp.,

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BLM staff studied state and tribal regulations and consulted with state and tribal regulators, industry, environmental experts, and the public, including communities affected by oil and gas operations. In many instances, provisions in the new rule are similar to or based on existing state or tribal rules and industry best practices.

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JUNE 24, 2013

The Obama Administration and academic and industry partners announced a series of commitments in support of the Materials Genome Initiative (MGI, earlier post ), a public-private endeavor that aims to cut in half the time it takes to develop novel materials that can fuel advanced manufacturing.

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JANUARY 13, 2022

He has more than 40 years of experience in the data storage industry and has been a consultant for more than 20 years. He is an active member of the IEEE Santa Clara Valley Section , which he chaired, and has been involved with several societies, standards groups, and the IEEE Future Directions committee.

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MARCH 7, 2011

The company’s GaN-based power converters are designed with 600 Volt transistors and low loss power diodes, will come in industry-standard packages, and are designed for optimum high-frequency switching, lowest loss and highest efficiency. Perreault, MIT). Our goal is to build [Transphorm] to be a legacy company.

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The discovery came when MIT researchers Byoungwoo Kang and Gerbrand Ceder found out how to get a common lithium compound to release and take up lithium ions in a matter of seconds. Write For GO About Advertise Contact Login Explore GO Media: News & Opinion Family & Lifestyle Business & Technology Gas 2.0 Like this post?

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JULY 21, 2021

IBM's essential contributions were to position the technology as suitable for wide use and to set a technology standard. By 1980, customers in many industries were telling their IBM contacts to enter the fray. As developers began writing software for the IBM PC, they embraced DOS as the industry standard.

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OCTOBER 12, 2015

Researchers at the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change have compared the worldwide economic, environmental, and energy impacts of currently planned fuel economy standards (extended to the year 2050) with those of region-specific carbon prices designed to yield identical CO 2 emissions reductions.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2012

NASSCOM is the industry association for the IT-BPO (business process outsourcing) sector in India. The reference host device is a standard Android device that supports the Android Platform version 3.1 OpenXC is an open-source hardware and software platform developed by Ford Research and Innovation and New York City-based Bug Labs.

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MARCH 27, 2022

million microfilmed pages back to the United States, along with almost 200 tonnes of German industrial equipment. As a result, the 1950s and ’60s saw a renaissance for magnetic amplifiers, during which they were used extensively in the military, aerospace, and other industries. engineers were soon able to reproduce those alloys.

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JULY 19, 2011

A new study by the Highway Loss Data Institute (HLDI) found that Volvo XC60 midsize SUVs outfitted with a standard collision-avoidance feature called City Safety are far less likely to be involved in low-speed crashes than comparable vehicles without the system. standards for Wi-Fi wireless networking. Volvo’s City Safety.

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OCTOBER 18, 2023

Wong describes the new digital afterlife industry in a chapter of her new book from MIT Press, We the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age. Strickland: So we’re going to dive into the digital afterlife industry in just a moment. Human rights are about living life to a minimal standard, to our fullest potential.

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AUGUST 3, 2021

Here I'll pick up the story as adapted from my narrative in A Biography of the Pixel , published this month by MIT Press. Pixar's sixth and crowning jewel during the pre-Movie years was RenderMan , a groundbreaking piece of software that became an industry standard. George and Marcia Lucas divorced in 1983. This was huge.

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