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A New Energy-Efficient Hydrogel Pulls Water From Air

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Using a new kind of hydrogel material, researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have pulled water out of thin air at temperatures low enough to be achieved with sunlight. The UT Austin technique is aimed at the latter. But Yu and his colleagues at UT Austin developed theirs with arid atmospheres in mind.

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Video Friday: Biological End Effectors

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RoboCup 2023 : 4–10 July 2023, BORDEAUX, FRANCE RSS 2023 : 10–14 July 2023, DAEGU, SOUTH KOREA IEEE RO-MAN 2023 : 28–31 August 2023, BUSAN, SOUTH KOREA IROS 2023 : 1–5 October 2023, DETROIT CLAWAR 2023 : 2–4 October 2023, FLORIANOPOLIS, BRAZIL Humanoids 2023 : 12–14 December 2023, AUSTIN, TEXAS Enjoy today’s videos! Even when it’s not hands.

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Tesla Bot job postings go live for California and Texas

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Most of the Tesla Bot jobs are located in California except one located in Austin, Texas. . Tesla has posted new jobs for its Tesla Bot team on its Careers page. A few of the openings have been posted for quite some time. Software Engineer – Tesla Bot. Responsibilities. Embedded Firmware Engineer – Tesla Bot.

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NASA and Argonne use deep neural network to enhance CFD code for hypersonic flight

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These new concepts represent an enormous opportunity for commercial flight, space exploration and national defense: Hypersonic aircraft could serve as reusable launch vehicles for spacecraft, for example. To simulate how combustion behaves within this volatile environment, NASA has a hypersonic CFD code called VULCAN-CFD.

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Baker Institute-led group to develop nationwide protocol for paying ranchers and farmers to store carbon

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Robin Rather, CEO of Austin-based Collective Strength, is the group’s facilitator. We have assembled a diverse group that I feel sure will develop an excellent, defensible concept. When completed, the working group’s concept will be available and open to anyone who wants to buy or sell carbon. Baker III and Susan G.

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Video Friday: Ingenuity’s 50th Flight

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This demonstrates how the fully-soft rotary electromagnetic actuator can bridge the gap between the capabilities of traditional hard motors and novel soft actuator concepts. NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter made history when it achieved the first powered, controlled flight on another planet on April 19, 2021.

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Video Friday: Googly Eye

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Inspired by the adaptable nature of organic brains, researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have introduced a method for robust flight navigation agents to master vision-based fly-to-target tasks in intricate, unfamiliar environments.