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Boston Dynamics’ Founder on the Future of Robotics

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When Marc Raibert founded Boston Dynamics in 1992, he wasn’t even sure it was going to be a robotics company—he thought it might become a modeling and simulation company instead. Now, of course, Boston Dynamics is the authority in legged robots, with its Atlas biped and Spot quadruped. He now leads the Boston Dynamics AI Institute.

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MIT professor pursuing direct sulfide electrolysis for copper production

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Ward and published in the London-based Transactions of the Institute of Mining and Metallurgy in 1958. Experience in the aluminum industry shows that it is actually fairly cheap to make the electrolysis device, Allanore said. C, and resulted in a patent, a Nature paper, and a spinoff company, Boston Electrometallurgical Corp.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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Electric cars and a smart electric grid have a bright future, according to panelists at a roundtable discussion on the subject that I attended last Friday in Boston. “I So, the used batteries are almost arbitrarily cheap since an arbitrarily large fraction of their cost of production can be loaded on their use in transportation.

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