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Eaton signs long-term agreement with Argentine bus manufacturer TATSA to design and supply hybrid systems

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Eaton Corporation has signed a long-term agreement to design and supply Argentine bus manufacturer Tecnología Avanzada en Transporte S. Since 2005, the company has been building commercial vehicles at a plant in San Martin, Buenos Aires, and this year will start production in a new plant located in Maldonado, Uruguay.

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Street network patterns reveal global trend towards increasing urban sprawl

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In contrast to the corrective trend observed in the United States, where streets have become more connected since the late 20 th century, we find that most of the world is building ever-more disconnected “street-network sprawl.” Gridded street networks, on the other hand, promote efficient, dense urban form in Bolivia, Argentina and Peru.

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Bionic Hand Gives Amputees Sense of Touch

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Twenty-one years later, in 2015, the IEEE member founded Psyonic , which designs and builds advanced, affordable artificial limbs. I loved everything about engineering, programming, and building things," he says. "I From that encounter, Akhtar decided that one day he would develop affordable artificial limbs. Akhtar is the CEO.

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11 Intriguing Engineering Milestones to Look for in 2023

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One will provide Internet to rural Peru, two will service airplanes and cruise liners, and the final satellite’s use is yet to be disclosed. The components are for startup NuScale , whose design promises to drastically reduce cost and installation time. That same year, the company plans to launch four more microGEOs.

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Weaponized Robots Letter Calls for Policy, Tech Fixes

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Yesterday, six companies that build or support sophisticated mobile robots (led by Boston Dynamics). We also call on every organization, developer, researcher, and user in the robotics community to make similar pledges not to build, authorize, support, or enable the attachment of weaponry to such robots.

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Flight Simulator Gave Birth to 3D Video-Game Graphics

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In 1976, Artwick wrote his master’s thesis on a flight simulator he’d designed to run on Digital Equipment Corp.’s This gave subLogic a cheat sheet to build on. In retrospect, ESP feels like a predecessor to modern efforts to build “digital twins” to simulate and replicate real-world environments. s PDP-11 minicomputer.

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Adani Group’s USD 1.2-bn copper plant to boost India’s metal production – ET Auto

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” New Delhi: Billionaire Gautam Adani-led group is building the world’s largest single-location copper manufacturing plant at Mundra in Gujarat, which will help cut India’s dependence on imports and aid energy transition , sources said. Globally, copper production is more concentrated than oil.

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