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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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USDA announces conditional commitment for $70M loan guarantee for Ensyn cellulosic biofuel refinery

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The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced a conditional commitment for a $70-million loan guarantee to help build a cellulosic biorefinery in central Georgia. Ensyn Georgia Biorefinery I, LLC (Ensyn) will construct and operate a cellulosic biofuel refinery in Dooly County, Georgia.

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Ryder’s natural gas fleet surpasses 20 million miles

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The fleet consists of liquefied natural gas and compressed natural gas tractors serving more than 40 customer operations in California, New York, Texas, Arizona, Michigan, Utah, Georgia, and Louisiana. Since deploying its natural gas vehicle program in 2011, Ryder has replaced approximately 3.1

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Video Friday: Such a Showoff

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

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Shell invests in LanzaJet; AtJ sustainable aviation fuel

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Through our Raízen joint venture in Brazil, we have been producing bioethanol for over ten years, and we have already demonstrated production of cellulosic ethanol from waste materials. The strategic fit with LanzaJet is exciting. Freedom Pines Fuels, as it’s called, continues on schedule with operations beginning in 2022.

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USDA Approves Field Testing of ArborGen Freeze-Tolerant Eucalyptus as Biomass Crop

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The tree being considered under the permit is a Eucalyptus variety that has been grown for many years sustainably in Brazil, but which has an introduced trait that enables it to withstand the type of freezing conditions experienced in portions of the Southeast of the United States. The public comment period closed on 6 July 2009.

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AI Screens Out Robocallers

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According to one such index by the app Truecaller, the world’s spam call nexus is Brazil. One machine-learning-based system was created by a group including Mustaque Ahamad , a computer scientist at Georgia Tech, and Sharbani Pandit, then a graduate student. For Brazilians, that’s still a drastic decline from a few years ago.)

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