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WiTricity extends recent funding for a total of $52M

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As the company readies for the transition from technology and standards development to broad market adoption, WiTricity has secured advisory support from several of the world’s leading authorities on designing consumer experiences, building leading edge technology, and monetizing intellectual property.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Quanex Building Products Corporation, Houston, Texas SCP SYS LLC, San Francisco, Calif. Institute for Building Technology and Safety (IBTS), San Jose, Calif. Arlington, Texas Environmental Insights Explorer for Buildings, $750,000 Google, Mountian View, Calif. Louis , Mo. San Jose, Calif. Sunrun, San Francisco, Calif.

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Video Friday: PoKeBo Cubes

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RoboCup 2022 : 11 July–17 July 2022, BANGKOK IEEE CASE 2022 : 20 August–24 August 2022, MEXICO CITY CLAWAR 2022 : 12 September–14 September 2022, AZORES, PORTUGAL ANA Avatar XPRIZE Finals : 4 November–5 November 2022, LOS ANGELES CoRL 2022 : 14 December–18 December 2022, AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND Enjoy today's videos!

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Video Friday: Robot Soccer Finals

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The new gripping system combines passive mechanical compliance with a hybrid electrostatic-adhesive pad so that humanoid robots can grasp a wide range of materials including paperboard and textured plastics. The Lab, informally known as the "drone pen," allows operators to pilot drones safely and build trust with their robotic teammates.

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How the Huawei Fight is Changing the Face of 5G

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By the mid-1990s, China was promoting it as a 'national champion' in the country's effort to build up industrial giants that could compete on the world stage. This allowed Chinese manufacturers to build 5G equipment for their vast domestic use and export it internationally. So the U.S.

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SiliconRepublic.com: IBM to build smart grid for electric cars - R&D

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Home Business Digital Life New Media Comms CIO R&D Government Careers Events E-Monday Video Audio Dublin: 18.04.2009 02:44 AM SiliconRepublic.com Irelands Technology News Service RSS News Alerts Subscribe Features Google reports record Q1 profits BT reveals 24Mbps service Yahoo!,

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Intel's Open Source Strategy

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So, you can build the finest piece of hardware, but if the software is not going to run on it it’s not going to be very helpful, right? So, as a developer, let’s say you’re building on a Linux machine, you want to be able to say apt-get or Yum install , and that’s sort of all that you should have to do. Nope, not going to work.

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