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Video Friday: Your Robot Dog

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link] [ ROS.org ] Boston Dynamics should know better than to post new videos on Fridays (as opposed to Thursday nights, when I put this post together every week), but if you missed this last week, here you go. Robot choreography by Boston Dynamics and Monica Thomas. Fraunhofer ] Who needs Digit when Cassie is still hard at work!

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Video Friday: Your Robot Dog

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link] [ ROS.org ] Boston Dynamics should know better than to post new videos on Fridays (as opposed to Thursday nights, when I put this post together every week), but if you missed this last week, here you go. Robot choreography by Boston Dynamics and Monica Thomas. Fraunhofer ] Who needs Digit when Cassie is still hard at work!

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Hyundai Motor Group and Aptiv to form autonomous driving joint venture; autonomous platform to be available in 2022

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The new joint venture will be led by Karl Iagnemma, President, Aptiv Autonomous Mobility and headquartered in Boston, with technology centers across the United States and Asia, including Korea. —Euisun Chung, Executive Vice Chairman, Hyundai Motor Group.

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Elevance Renewable Sciences licenses molybdenum and tungsten metathesis catalysts from XiMo

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Vanderslice Millennium Professor of Chemistry at Boston College. Elevance was formed in 2007, with capital and technology invested by TPG Biotech, TPG Growth, Cargill and Materia. Keyes Professor of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Hoveyda is the Patricia and Joseph T.

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Plantic Technologies to Partner with National Starch to Manufacture Bioplastics in US

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In October 2007, Plantic and National Starch signed a joint collaboration agreement to develop new starch technology and starch modification technology. Plantic has offices in Melbourne, Australia; Jena, Germany; and Boston, US.

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HEI ACES study of lifetime animal exposure to New Technology Diesel Engine exhaust finds no lung cancer

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exhaust from heavy-duty diesel engines meeting EPA 2007 and later emissions requirements—has found no evidence of carcinogenic lung tumors. The study exposed laboratory rats 80 hours a week, for up to 30 months, to emissions from a heavy-duty diesel engine meeting 2007 US EPA standards using new filters and other control technology.

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A New Treatment for Arthritis: Vagus-Nerve Stimulation

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In 2007, Tracey cofounded SetPoint to bring the treatment to the clinic. Neuromodulation is definitely having a moment,” says Gene Civillico , a neurotechnologist at Northeastern University, in Boston, who previously oversaw bioelectronics research efforts at the U.S. National Institutes of Health.