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ARPA-E awarding $10M to 8 projects studying low-energy nuclear reactions

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Energetics Technology Center will build upon past successes with co-deposition experiments using palladium, lithium, and heavy water together to create an environment in which LENR can occur. Texas Tech University. Energetics Technology Center. CATHODE (CATHode scintillatOr Detector for Electrochemistry) - $1,500,000.

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Daimler joining MIT CSAIL Alliance Program for AI work; cognitive vehicles

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Daimler is becoming a new member of the MIT CSAIL Alliance Program. MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory ( CSAIL ) is the largest research laboratory at MIT and one of the world’s most important centers of information technology research. The new cooperation with the MIT ideally complements this.

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Video Friday: Resilient Bugbots

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Inspired by the hardiness of bumblebees, MIT researchers have developed repair techniques that enable a bug-sized aerial robot to sustain severe damage to the actuators, or artificial muscles, that power its wings—but to still fly effectively. [ MIT ] This robot gripper is called DragonClaw, and do you really need to know anything else?

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Getting More Students to Develop Tech That Benefits Society

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Estrin, a computer science professor at Cornell Tech , in New York City, founded the school’s Public Interest Tech Initiative to give students that opportunity. Her sister Judy is a successful tech entrepreneur, and her other sister, Margo, is a medical doctor. student in electrical engineering and computer science at MIT. ?IEEE:

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Video Friday: Robot Soccer Finals

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The European Robocup Finals 2022, featuring Tech United vs VDL Robotsports. Tech United ] Within the European Union project we aim to autonomously monitor habitats. Paper ] The compliance and conformability of soft robots provide inherent advantages when working around delicate objects or in unstructured environments.

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Toyota’s Collaborative Safety Research Center launches 5-year, $35M program on autonomous and connected vehicle technologies

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These highly advanced systems are radically reshaping the transportation landscape, building a relationship between drivers, occupants and vehicles as teammates working together safely and conveniently. Another, with MIT, modelled in-vehicle voice command systems and driver behavior.

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Video Friday: Perseverance Autonomy

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DRL ] The Suzumori Endo Lab at Tokyo Tech has developed soft tensegrity robot driven by thin artificial muscles, the movement of which makes me vaguely uncomfortable. Tokyo Tech ] MIT engineers have developed a telerobotic system to help surgeons quickly and remotely treat patients experiencing a stroke or aneurysm.

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