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Liquid metal battery company Ambri raises $35M in Series C

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Ambri has recently been awarded projects to deploy prototype systems in Massachusetts, Hawaii, New York and Alaska, alongside project partners that include First Wind, Joint Base Cape Cod, Con Edison, Energy Excelerator (Hawaii), Alaska Center for Energy and Power, and Raytheon.

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FAA Awards Contracts for $125M to 5 Companies to Accelerate More Environmentally Friendly Aviation Technology; Renewable Fuels, Engines, Wings and Flight Management

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The CLEEN award will include technology demonstrations with Lockheed Martin, AirDat and Alaska Airlines. Honeywell will be working with Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation, a division of General Dynamics Corporation, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in this contract. Pratt & Whitney.

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Video Friday: Constant Gardener

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Constant Gardener ] via [ RobotStart ] Engineers at MIT and Shanghai Jiao Tong University have designed a soft, lightweight, and potentially low-cost neuroprosthetic hand. It's been a hectic couple of days, so here are some retired industrial robots quietly drawing lines in sand. JPL ] Robot arm manages to not kill plants.

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Video Friday: Constant Gardener

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Constant Gardener ] via [ RobotStart ] Engineers at MIT and Shanghai Jiao Tong University have designed a soft, lightweight, and potentially low-cost neuroprosthetic hand. It's been a hectic couple of days, so here are some retired industrial robots quietly drawing lines in sand. JPL ] Robot arm manages to not kill plants.

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Video Friday: Autonomous Drift

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MIT ] In this video we demonstrate fully autonomous multi-contact locomotion for our humanoid robot LOLA. Paper ] The ExynAeo autonomously explores a water-logged stope in Alaska while a survey team monitors the robot's real-time progress while warm and dry in their vehicle.

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