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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. However, these robots must perform their tasks dexterously and safely in shared human environments, especially when handling dangerous tools such as kitchen knives.

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DOE announces $16M for 17 Phase 1 projects in ultra-high temperature materials program; ARPA-E ULTIMATE

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ULTIMATE projects address two target temperature levels and seek to develop ultrahigh temperature materials for continuous operation at 1300 ºC (2372 ºF) in a stand-alone material test environment or at 1800 ºC (3272 ºF) with coatings and cooling. University of Utah. University of Virginia.

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Researchers developing salt-tolerant enzymes tailored to ionic liquid processes for production of advanced cellulosic biofuels

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Halorhabdus utahensis was isolated from the natural environment at the Great Salt Lake and sequenced at the DOE JGI as part of the Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea (GEBA) project. Advance Article doi: 10.1039/C1GC15193B. an aerobic, extremely halophilic member of the Archaea from Great Salt Lake, Utah. Green Chem.

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50 Years Later, We’re Still Living in the Xerox Alto’s World

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By the late 1960s, Xerox executives had begun to see information technology make an impact in the office environment. BCC), a struggling startup that had emerged from ARPA-funded Project Genie ‘s attempt to build an interactive programming environment on a timeshared computer at the University of California, Berkeley. (BCC),

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America’s lithium laws fail to keep pace with rapid development – ET Auto

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In Utah, the state legislature and governor approved a bill last year aimed at preventing water levels from dropping in the lithium-rich Great Salt Lake. “We’re waiting to see how (the Arkansas royalty situation) evolves,” said Netha Johnson, the Albemarle executive overseeing the company’s Arkansas lithium project.

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Eavesdropping on the Brain with 10,000 Electrodes

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Different kinds of neural probes pick up activity from firing neurons: three tines of a Utah array with one electrode on each tine [left], a single slender tungsten wire electrode [center], and a Neuropixels shank that has electrodes all along its length [checkered pattern, right]. What regulates behaviors essential to survival?

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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This article was first published as “Inside the PARC: the ‘information architects’.” One of the first decisions Pake in turn made was to hire, among others, Robert Taylor, then at the University of Utah , to help him recruit engineers and scientists for the Computer Science and Systems Science Laboratories.

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