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Germany launches R&D facility for industrial-scale Li-ion cell manufacturing; €500M in funding

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The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has launched the Battery Cell Research Production Center, a new R&D and large-scale industrial manufacturing plant for lithium-ion cells; the center will receive an investment of €500 million. In addition, there are research and development locations worldwide.

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Persona AI Brings Calm Experience to a Hectic Industry

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It may at times seem like there are as many humanoid robotics companies out there as the industry could possibly sustain, but the potential for useful and reliable and affordable humanoids is so huge that there’s plenty of room for any company that can actually get them to work. That’s our singular focus.

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Alberta Innovates & NRCan awarding $26.2M to three oil sands clean tech projects; industry kicking in $43.3M

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Alberta Innovates has teamed up with Natural Resources (NRCan) and industry partners to take three clean oil sands technologies to commercial demonstration. This announcement is a result of NRCan’s Oil and Gas Clean Tech Program. The three industry partners, Cenovus Energy, Field Upgrading, and MEG Energy are investing $43.3

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BMW opens new Shanghai R&D center; focus on human-machine interaction and hardware-software integration

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Today, more than 3,200 designers and engineers, NEV and software specialists are creating leading-edge innovations in close collaboration with Chinese tech players, start-ups, local partners as well as academia. The team develops an average of around 100,000 software builds per day and processes around 3,000 builds per hour in parallel.

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US FTA to award up to $2.75M for zero-emissions public transportation tech

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million of funding for its Zero Emission Research Opportunity (ZERO) ( FTA-2017-001-TRI ). Eligibility for future ZERO funding opportunities in fiscal years 2017-2020 will be limited to those nonprofit consortia selected under this fiscal year 2017 notice.

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Scaling Compute to Satiate AI

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in 2017 to see the company install its first EUV system, senior editor Samuel K. We’d probably have to build a particle accelerator under the parking lot,” the man joked. While the industry’s ability to affordably make smaller devices has certainly slowed, Moore believes that scaling has a few tricks up its sleeve yet.

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Georgia Tech team furthers four-stroke-cycle active-membrane piston reactor for enhanced SMR for H2 production

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However, due to its high operating temperature and use of sequential units for the reaction stages, industrial SMR does not scale down well for distributed, point-of-use applications such as fuel cell vehicle refueling stations. Our next step would be to build a pilot-scale CHAMP reactor. —Anderson et al. Click to enlarge.

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