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ICCT quantifies the EV charging infrastructure gap across US markets

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2019

The largest charging gaps are in markets where electric vehicle uptake will grow most rapidly, including in many California cities, Boston, New York, Portland, Denver, and Washington, D.C. Although much work remains, progress toward the charging infrastructure system of the future is well underway.

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Technip and Sasol form a front-end engineering alliance for GTL facilities

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AUGUST 22, 2013

Technip and Sasol have established an alliance for front-end engineering services for future Sasol GTL projects. Furthermore, it also allows for Technip’s participation during the execution stage of future GTL projects. The high cetane number of the diesel fuel will help meet future more stringent specifications.

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Researchers forecast light-duty vehicle electricity use in 2050 considering electrification, autonomy and sharing: 13-26% of total demand

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JULY 29, 2018

Considering electrification, autonomy and sharing (the “Three Revolutions”), a team from Boston University and the University of California, Berkeley projects that electricity use from light duty vehicle (LDV) transport will likely be in the 570–1140?TWh The realm of potential transportation futures is still highly uncertain.

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What Robotics Experts Think of Tesla’s Optimus Robot

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OCTOBER 4, 2022

Because robotics requires expertise in many different aspects of both software and hardware, getting a good sense of the present context of Tesla’s robot as well as its future potential means finding perspectives from a multitude of robotics experts, including people working in industry and academia and everywhere in between. BACK TO TOP ↑ ].

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Amazon to Acquire iRobot F?or $1.7 Billion

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AUGUST 5, 2022

There’s not much to go on here, and iRobot has already referred us to Amazon PR, which, to be honest, feels like a bit of a punch in the gut. I’m sure iRobot and Amazon have all kinds of plans and promises and whatnot, but still—I’m now nervous about iRobot’s future. I love (loved?)

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Video Friday: TRI Expo

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FEBRUARY 17, 2023

HRI 2023 : 13–16 March 2023, STOCKHOLM Robotics Summit & Expo : 10–11 May 2023, BOSTON ICRA 2023 : 29 May–2 June 2023, LONDON RoboCup 2023 : 4–10 July 2023, BORDEAUX, FRANCE RSS 2023 : 10–14 July 2023, DAEGU, KOREA IEEE RO-MAN 2023 : 28–31 August 2023, BUSAN, KOREA CLAWAR 2023 : 2–4 October 2023, FLORIANOPOLIS, BRAZIL Enjoy today’s videos!

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Exascale Computing Project (ECP) announces $39.8M in first-round application development awards

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Exascale refers to high-performance computing systems capable of at least a billion billion calculations per second, or a factor of 50 to 100 times faster than the nation’s most powerful supercomputers in use today. The awards, totaling $39.8

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Years Later, Alphabet’s Everyday Robots Have Made Some Progress

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NOVEMBER 23, 2021

But fortunately, there are also some new videos and enough details about the engineering and the team's approach that it's worth spending a little bit of time wading through the clutter to see what Everyday Robots has been up to over the last couple of years and what their plans are for the near future. But people keep on trying it anyway.

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The Cold War Arms Race Over Prosthetic Arms

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JULY 30, 2023

Those talks in turn led to a collaboration and an invention: the Boston Arm, an early myoelectric prosthesis. What was the Boston Arm? Discussions between cyberneticist Norbert Wiener [left] and surgeon Melvin Glimcher [right] inspired the Boston Arm. Wiener suggested that Amar G.

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Tesla Autopilot’s emergency vehicle response feature is addressing a deadly problem no one wants to talk about

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NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Author’s Note and Trigger Warning: The succeeding sections of this article contains links to footage and other online references that may cause distress to readers. A (Potentially) Safer Future. And disturbingly enough, very little is being done about it. . The Flaws of HumanPilot. Discretion is advised.

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Video Friday: ChatSpot

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OCTOBER 27, 2023

Boston Dynamics ] Shhh. Paper ] This video presents the remarkable capabilities of the TALOS robot as it demonstrates agile and robust walking using Model Predictive Control (MPC) references sent to a Whole-Body Inverse Dynamics (WBID) controller developed in collaboration with Dynamograde. [ Be vewy, vewy quiet.

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Video Friday: Agilicious

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MARCH 10, 2023

features the Spot robots from Boston Dynamics in relation with human beings. Unlike the original fable written in the 17th century, which raises questions relating to the balance of power between the human groups that make up society, Coperni reinterprets the story and transposes it to the year of 2023 with a positive vision of the future.

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Andy Grove: The U.S. must create an electric car industry - Apr. 17, 2009

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APRIL 19, 2009

More Warren Buffett takes charge Warren Buffett hasnt just seen the car of the future, hes sitting in the drivers seat. More Recharging Detroit The future of the U.S. In a similar vein, batteries will be a competitive advantage for the auto-makers of the future. The business world hopes shes right. auto manufacturers.

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The Do-or-Die Moments That Determined the Fate of the Internet

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MARCH 27, 2023

Although many of these gatherings have escaped the attention of historians, our view is that these events should be recognized more fully as moments where experts could glimpse possible futures and judge for themselves what was most likely to happen. Here we describe a few of these do-or-die moments. Think Globally.

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