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Video Friday: Ameca Humanoid

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Designed specifically as a platform for development into future robotics technologies, Ameca is the perfect humanoid robot platform for human-robot interaction. ETH Zurich ] Cassie Blue autonomously navigates on the second floor of the Ford Robotics Building at the University of Michigan. metre-tall green architectural sculpture. [

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A closer look at graphite—its forms, functions and future in EV batteries

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However, the use of silicon is limited by its tendency to expand significantly during charge and discharge, so graphite is expected to remain the main anode material for the foreseeable future. So all the workable batteries that are out there now use graphite on the anode side, and they will for—as we see it—the foreseeable future.

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