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USDOT awarding $55M to support purchase of Low-No buses; electric buses and infrastructure

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Eligible projects included those that replace, rehabilitate, lease, and purchase buses and related equipment as well as projects to purchase, rehabilitate, construct or lease bus-related facilities, such as buildings for bus storage and maintenance. The Jacksonville Transportation Authority. FY2017 Low-No projects. Broward County.

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Video Friday: Robotics After Hours

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YouTube ] The Apellix Opus X8 Softwash (SW) system cleaning the University of Florida Shands Hospital building in Jacksonville, Florida. Apellix ] NeuroVis is a neural dynamic visualizer that connects to the Robot Operating System (ROS). For a decade-old platform, this performance is still pretty good.

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How to Build a Power Grid on the Moon

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Without sunlight, solar panels become useless, their broad expanse then serving only to lose heat. A combination of insulation, reflection, and energy produced from solar panels works to keep the entire spacecraft within an acceptable temperature range throughout its flight. At night the temperature falls to -220 °C, as cold as Pluto.