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Q&A: Inside DARPA’s Subterranean Challenge

Cars That Think

Deep below the Louisville, Ky., The SubT was first announced in early 2018. By the time teams reached the SubT Final Event in the Louisville Mega Cavern, the focus was on autonomy rather than communications. zoo lies a network of enormous caverns carved out of limestone. The caverns are dark. They’re dusty. They’re humid.

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Obama Administration launches series of actions to accelerate EV adoption; inc. $4.5B in loan guarantees, pursuing 350 kW fast charge

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Louisville Gas & Electric and Kentucky Utilities. a standard for high performance green buildings that in 2018 will become the basis for the International Green Construction Code. Florida Power and Light Company. Georgia Power. General Motors. Hawaiian Electric. Hawai`i Electric Light. Maui Electric. Indianapolis Power & Light Company.

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AI-Guided Robots Are Ready to Sort Your Recyclables

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Right now, the recycling industry is facing a financial crisis, thanks to falling prices for sorted recyclables as well as policy, enacted by China in 2018, which restricts the import of many materials destined for recycling and shuts out most recyclables originating in the United States. We have to do better than that.

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