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This Rwandan Engineer is Learning How to Manage Humanitarian Projects

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Niyoyita, who attends classes remotely, is a process engineer at Africa Improved Foods , also in Kigali. As an engineer, normally we tend to be very technical. That was how I got into engineering,” she says, adding that she also was inspired by her brother, an engineer. She has worked there for more than four years. “It

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Aptera receives new $21 million grant as it nears production readiness

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The company’s co-founder, Chris Anthony, recently went to Switzerland to secure funding for the automaker. Besides this tireless financial work, Aptera engineers have also put in the hours behind the scenes. What do you think of the article? Now, Aptera has received money from a grant issued by the State of California.

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ETH Zurich team shows vanadate-borate glasses as inexpensive high-capacity cathodes for Li-ion batteries

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A team from ETH Zurich in Switzerland has demonstrated the use of vanadate-borate glasses (Li 2 O-B 2 O 3 -V 2 O 5 , referred to as V 2 O 5-LiBO 2 ) as high-capacity cathode materials for rechargeable Li-ion batteries for the first time. Bottom) discharge capacity vs. cycle within 1.5–4.0 V at 50 and 100 mA/g rates. Afyon et al. Batteries'

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Study finds modern diesel cars emit fewer carbonaceous particulates than gasoline cars

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A new study by an international team led by researchers from the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Switzerland has found that modern diesel passenger cars equipped with diesel particulate filters (DPFs) emit fewer carbonaceous particulates than gasoline-powered vehicles. The open-access study is published in the journal Scientific Reports.

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Video Friday: Robots With Knives

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They are just a preview of our in-depth ICRA coverage, and over the next several weeks we’ll have lots of articles and videos for you. We propose DOOM and LOOM, which leverage transformer relational dynamics to encode the history of trajectories given partial-view point clouds and an object discovery and tracking engine.

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DARPA SubT Finals: Meet the Teams

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For a recent recap, have a look at this post-cave pre-final article that includes an interview with SubT Program Manager Tim Chung , but if you don't have time for that, the TLDR is that this week we're looking at both a Virtual Track as well as a Systems Track with physical robots on a real course. USA, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Norway.

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Study shows two-stroke scooters dominant source of air pollution in many cities; asymmetric polluters

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The study by the team led by researchers from the Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland, appears in the journal Nature Communications. SOA formation is most significant from idling scooter emissions, while smaller at higher engine loads. —Platt et al. —Platt et al. Platt et al.

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