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Get Ready for the Stellarator Showdown

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For decades, nuclear fusion the reaction that powers the sunhas been the ultimate energy dream. Fusion requires temperatures hotter than the suns core and a mastery of plasmathe superheated gas in which atoms that have been stripped of their electrons collide, their nuclei fusing. But the challenge is huge. The downside?

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Nuclear Fusion’s New Idea: An Off-the-Shelf Stellarator

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For a machine that’s designed to replicate a star, the world’s newest stellarator is a surprisingly humble-looking apparatus. The PPPL team invented this nuclear-fusion reactor, completed last year, using mainly off-the-shelf components. Are Stellarators the Future of Nuclear Fusion? The problem isn’t whether fusion can work.

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Airbus is Working on a Superconducting Electric Aircraft

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One of the greatest climate -related engineering challenges right now is the design and construction of a large, zero-emission, passenger airliner. The plane would be a single-aisle airliner, designed to succeed Airbuss A320 family of aircraft, the highest-selling passenger jet aircraft on the market, with nearly 12,000 delivered.

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Superconducting Motor Could Propel Electric Aircraft

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One is the availability, at relatively moderate cost, of copper-oxide-based superconducting tape, which is being produced by a few companies for startups working on tokamak fusion reactors. HTS [high temperature superconductors] are having a moment, because the costs are coming down rapidly, driven by all the work on fusion,” Haran says. “A

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The Future of AI and Robotics Is Being Led by Amazon’s Next-Gen Warehouses

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Its our first opportunity to get our robotics systems combined under one roof and understand the end-to-end mechanics of how a building can run with incorporated autonomation. Proteus is Amazons autonomous mobile robot designed to work around people. Were building systems that push the limits of robotics and AI, says Wolf.

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Using Geofencing to Secure Electric Vehicles: A New Era in Location-Based Protection

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It can be customized to monitor movements, control functionalities, or lock features if the vehicle crosses designated areas. If an EV overstays or parks outside designated EV zones, alerts are triggered or fines issued automatically. In the context of electric vehicles, geofencing acts as an invisible fence.

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Mobility Engineering: Your Essential Guide to Getting Started in 2025

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What is mobility engineering and why it matters At its essence, mobility engineering represents a fusion of traditional automotive expertise with cutting-edge technologies designed to create more efficient transportation systems. Many people are moving away from private car ownership in favour of flexible, shared mobility options.

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