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MIT/Stanford team develops battery technology for the conversion of low-grade waste heat to power; TREC

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Researchers at MIT and Stanford University have developed new battery technology for the conversion of low-temperature waste heat into electricity in cases where temperature differences are less than 100 degrees Celsius. C, which accounts for a large proportion of potentially harvestable waste heat. —Gang Chen.

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Lamborghini licenses MIT’s Cobalt-free organic battery tech for EVs – ET Auto

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Researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ), including one of Indian-origin, have designed a new battery material that could offer a more sustainable, cobalt-free way to power electric cars. Keck Professor of Energy at MIT. Automaker Lamborghini has licensed the patent on the technology. .

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ExxonMobil, MIT and Synthetic Genomics team publishes results of LCA on algal biofuels; potential for large reductions in GHG

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We emphasize that the objective of this article is to evaluate the life-cycle environmental performance of a broad range of technology options being considered for algal biofuels production, and it is not to make judgment on the ultimate commercial viability of these technology options.

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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, training the robot in the real world can be inefficient, and dangerous, and result in a lot of food waste. Harry Asada from MIT, Cambridge, Mass., Therefore, we proposed SliceIt!,

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Advances in the conversion efficiency of thermoelectric materials

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A collaboration including researchers from Boston College, MIT, the University of Virginia and Clemson University have achieved a peak ZT (thermoelectric figure of merit) of 0.8 for the materials and possibly good enough for consideration for waste heat recovery in automotive exhaust systems. Articles ASAP doi: 10.1021/nl104138t.

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Why Facebook (Or Meta) Is Making Tactile Sensors for Robots

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AI is of course much worse than humans at many, many, many things as well, but that debate goes well beyond Facebook Meta and certainly well beyond the scope of this article, which is about tactile sensing for robots. The DIGIT touch sensor is based on the GelSight style of sensor, which was first conceptualized at MIT over a decade ago.

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Lotfi Zadeh and the Birth of Fuzzy Logic

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This article was first published as “Lotfi A. That enabled him to be financially independent when he came to the United States to enroll in graduate school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge. MIT, it turned out, was an easy ride after the demanding course work Zadeh had faced in Tehran. Lotfi Zadeh.