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This Nigerian Startup’s Minigrid Began as a School Project

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To improve his chances, he worked as an intern for two of them. They put together documentation on how the minigrid worked, created a budget, and applied for a grant from the IEEE Foundation. “I The grant provided the seed money to launch their startup that year: Green Village Electricity Projects of Port Harcourt, Nigeria.

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Worldwide Campaign for Neurorights Notches Its First Win

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constitutional amendment that was passed by the National Congress of Chile and signed by the president, the people of Chile are the first in the world to be granted a new kind of human rights—“neurorights”—which advocates say are made necessary by rapid advances in neurotechnology. The right to personal identity. Thanks to a.

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The 11 Commandments of Hugging Robots

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If we’ve learned anything over the past few years, it’s how important it is not to take physical contact for granted. Unfortunately, physical contact with humans is something that robots find especially difficult and occasionally dangerous, so that we cannot (yet) safely use them as a proxy for nuanced physical contact with another person.

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Volkswagen AG provides details on investigations into NOx cheating; origin and fixes; new strategic direction

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Approximately 450 internal and external experts are involved in the investigations, which are being conducted in two phases. I vouch for this personally, as does the entire Supervisory Board of Volkswagen AG. liter TDI, will begin in January 2016. Internal findings on processes. Earlier post.). —Hans Dieter Pötsch.

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Princeton Engineering Dean Hailed as IEEE Top Educator

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Sumner Award Royal Academy of Engineering International Fellow National Academy of Engineering Member She kept that promise and earned a bachelor’s in engineering mathematics, then master’s and doctorate degrees in electrical engineering from UC Berkeley. She has been granted 38 U.S. patents for her work. in 2005 and served as its CTO.

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Q&A: Ghost Robotics CEO on Armed Robots for the U.S. Military

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One of the exhibitors was Ghost Robotics —we've previously covered their nimble and dynamic quadrupedal robots, which originated at the University of Pennsylvania with Minitaur in 2016. The amount of energy that's put into protecting us by these people that we don't even know is really amazing, and we take it for granted.

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Princeton Engineering Dean Hailed as IEEE Top Educator

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Sumner Award Royal Academy of Engineering International Fellow National Academy of Engineering Member She kept that promise and earned a bachelor’s in engineering mathematics, then master’s and doctorate degrees in electrical engineering from UC Berkeley. She has been granted 38 U.S. patents for her work. in 2005 and served as its CTO.

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