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A model developed by Researchers at MIT and Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) have developed a model that uses satellite imagery to tag road features in digital maps to help improve GPS navigation. Roads can be occluded by, for example, trees and buildings, making it a challenging task, however.

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MARCH 26, 2021

DERQ , an MIT-spin-off with an award-winning platform powered by patented AI and predictive analytics, is partnering with Control Technologies Group (CT Group), one of the US’ largest distributors of traffic signal control and intelligent transportation systems (ITS) equipment, for a multi-year distribution agreement.

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JUNE 10, 2019

To further that vision, MIT researchers have given new capabilities to their fleet of robotic boats—which are being developed as part of an ongoing project—that lets them target and clasp onto each other, and keep trying if they fail. Moreover, the roboat notices if it has missed the connection, backs up, and tries again.

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MARCH 8, 2013

BASF SE has launched the “North American Center for Research on Advanced Materials—a research collaboration with Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst. of MIT, and Todd Emrick, Ph.D. The cooperation is initially planned for five years.

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MARCH 9, 2021

We look forward to building on this work through future experiments to achieve lower-cost, better-performing batteries. Hongbo Zhao/MIT). By understanding the fundamental reactions that occur within the battery we can extend its life, enable faster charging and ultimately design better battery materials.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

MIT researchers have built a model to simulate long-range atmospheric transport of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). Friedman’s work will provide a foundation for ongoing work in Selin’s research group at MIT, in collaboration with the University of Rhode Island and the Harvard School of Public Health.

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APRIL 25, 2013

Researchers at MIT are proposing using a variation on pumped hydroelectric systems for storage of electricity produced by offshore wind farms. MIT has filed for a patent on the system. These structures would serve both as anchors to moor the floating turbines and as a means of storing the energy they produce. Earlier post.).

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JUNE 23, 2012

MIT President Susan Hockfield and Saudi Aramco President and CEO Khalid A. Al-Falih signed a Memorandum of Understanding in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, providing a framework that will greatly expand the research and education partnership between MIT and Saudi Aramco. Several elements of the MOU have been agreed to for implementation.

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JULY 24, 2022

Now, a team of researchers at MIT, the University of Houston, and other institutions have shown that cubic boron arsenide overcomes these two limitations of silicon as a semiconductor material. MIT researchers say cubic boron arsenide is the best semiconductor material ever found, and maybe the best possible one. —Gang Chen.

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OCTOBER 4, 2013

Researchers at MIT, working with partners at NASA and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, have developed a new concept for a “neutron microscope”—a compact focusing-mirror-based small-angle neutron scattering instrument—that would use neutrons instead of beams of light or electrons to create high-resolution images. Earlier post.)

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JANUARY 22, 2014

Building on the capabilities of the automated Ford Fusion Hybrid research vehicle unveiled last month ( earlier post ), Ford is working with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Stanford University to research and to develop solutions to some of the technical challenges surrounding automated driving. Click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2017

MIT researchers have developed a new system that could potentially be used for converting power plant emissions of carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide, and thence into useful fuels for cars, trucks, and planes, as well as into chemical feedstocks for a wide variety of products.

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JUNE 20, 2014

Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed materials with the same weight and density as aerogel (“frozen smoke”) but with 10,000 times more stiffness using additive micro-manufacturing processes. Source: LLNL Click to enlarge. Zheng et al. Click to enlarge.

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OCTOBER 22, 2019

ExxonMobil said extended its support of the MIT Energy Initiative’s (MITEI) low-carbon energy research and education mission by renewing its status as a founding member for another five years. ExxonMobil first signed on as a member of the initiative in 2014. Join MITEI’s Mobility Systems Center, its newest Low-Carbon Energy Center.

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DECEMBER 13, 2018

A consortium of researchers led by Caltech, in partnership with MIT; the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS); and JPL, which Caltech manages for NASA, seeks to build a new type of climate model that is designed to provide more precise and actionable predictions. —Raffaele Ferrari, Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Oceanography at MIT.

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AUGUST 28, 2019

Researchers at MIT and the Ford Motor Company have found that depending on the location, lightweight conventional vehicles could have a lower lifecycle greenhouse gas impact than electric vehicles, at least in the near term. Their paper is published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology.

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JANUARY 25, 2018

A new metal mesh membrane developed by researchers at MIT could advance the use of the Na–NiCl 2 displacement battery, which has eluded widespread adoption owing to the fragility of the ?"-Al through the MIT Energy Initiative. Al 2 O 3 membrane. —David Sadoway. The work was supported by the French oil company Total S.A.

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JULY 7, 2011

Liquid Metal Battery Corporation (LMBC), a Cambridge, Massachusetts company founded in 2010 to develop new forms of electric storage batteries that work in large, grid-scale applications, has secured the rights to key patent technology from MIT. Patents for all liquid metal battery inventions were licensed from MIT.

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MAY 12, 2013

Researchers at MIT have identified inexpensive metal alloy materials that can serve as anodes for molten oxide electrolysis (MOE)—an electrometallurgical technique that enables the direct production of metal in the liquid state from oxide feedstock. They expect it could take about three years to design, build and test such a reactor.

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DECEMBER 7, 2016

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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APRIL 15, 2017

A team of researchers at MIT has developed a coating that could stop the buildup of hydrate ices that slow or block oil and gas flow. Without those measures, hydrates can build up so that they reduce the flow rate, which can reduce revenues, and if they create blockages then that “ can lead to catastrophic failure ,” Varanasi says.

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DECEMBER 21, 2016

MIT engineers have studied a simple vehicle-platooning scenario and determined the best ways to deploy vehicles in order to save fuel and minimize delays. We believe that ultimately this thinking will allow us to build new transportation systems in which the cost of transportation will be reduced substantially. —Sertac Karaman.

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MARCH 30, 2014

The MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) announced its latest round of seed grants to support early-stage innovative energy projects. Building on novel computation techniques, assistant professor Heather J. A total of more than $1.6 million was awarded to 11 projects, each lasting up to two years.

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JUNE 4, 2021

Tesla has officially submitted amended application documents to build electric vehicle battery cells at its German production plant, Giga Berlin. mit Batteriezellenherstellung, Presswerkerweiterung & reduziertem Wasserverbrauch eingereicht. Tesla hat geänderten Antrag u. What do you think?

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DECEMBER 22, 2011

A three-year study by a team of researchers based at MIT has concluded that fundamental changes are needed in the US energy-innovation system. The study was carried out at the MIT Industrial Performance Center and involved faculty and students from nine MIT departments. Business as usual is unsustainable over the long run.

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MAY 2, 2014

King Assistant Professor of Metallurgy at MIT, is proposing a direct sulfide electrolysis process to simplify copper extraction and eliminate noxious byproducts. The copper research builds on Allanore’s previous work in the steel industry, where he developed new electrochemical processes to make iron without greenhouse gas emissions.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2009

The approach taken is to achieve better utilization of the very expensive existing infrastructure, not simply to add capacity by building more roadways, guideways or highways. This project will be a significant increase in the scale of transportation-related research conducted by MIT faculty and students.

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AUGUST 14, 2017

Australian startup Energy Renaissance, backed by engineering group UGL, says that it has secured support from the Northern Territory Government to build a 1GWh Li-ion battery factory in Darwin. The semi-solid thick electrode is a material science innovation originating in Dr. Yet-Ming Chiang’s lab at MIT. (Dr. Earlier post.).

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MARCH 29, 2024

Now, an MIT spin-off says it has found a solution in an innovative technology that could dramatically reduce the costs and timelines of drilling to fantastic depths. Although Wostov is credited as a founder of Quaise, he says he has no financial stake in the company—unlike MIT. Quaise Energy , based in Cambridge, Mass.,

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FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Now researchers at MIT have been able to both reduce the size of the qubits and done so in a way that reduces the interference that occurs between neighboring qubits. The MIT researchers have increased the number of superconducting qubits that can be added onto a device by a factor of 100. degrees above absolute zero (-273.15 °C).

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JULY 29, 2021

The Czech Ministry of Industry and Trade (MIT) and majority state-owned energy group ?EZ EZ and MIT envision an investment of at least CZK 52 billion (US$2.4 Our government is ready to ensure the conditions that would support the project, including by building key infrastructure.

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DECEMBER 1, 2021

Power, MIT Advanced Vehicle Technology Consortium (MIT AVT) and Partners for Automated Vehicle Education (PAVE). Power MCI Study with the annual MIT AVT Automated Driving Technologies Study, key metrics from both are maintained with a freshening of phrasing and survey terminology. By merging the quarterly J.D.

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JULY 18, 2015

Findings by MIT researchers could help advance the commercialization of supercritical water technology for the desulfurization and upgrading of high-sulfur crude oil into high-value, cleaner fuels such as gasoline without using hydrogen—a major change in refining technology that would reduce costs, energy use, and CO 2 emissions.

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MARCH 1, 2016

“While a passenger car wouldn’t achieve significant gas savings, road stiffness could make an enormous difference for 40-ton trucks, with up to 4 percent gas mileage savings,” said MIT professor of civil and environmental engineering Franz-Josef Ulm, faculty director of CSHub, in an interview with Engineering News-Record (ENR) magazine. “If

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MAY 12, 2010

This could ultimately form the basis for new storage systems that would allow buildings to be completely independent and self-sustaining in terms of energy. Earlier post.).

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MAY 25, 2011

A report from MIT and The University of Texas at Austin urges the US to accelerate efforts to pursue carbon capture and storage (CCS) in combination with enhanced oil recovery (EOR), a practice that could increase domestic oil production while significantly curbing emissions of carbon dioxide. Schematic of a CO 2. EOR System.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Iruyo was born out of the voices of mothers and fathers who said, “I can’t hold my baby while driving alone.” [ Nissan ] Building 937 houses the coolest robots at CERN. This is where the action happens to build and program robots that can tackle the unconventional challenges presented by the Laboratory’s unique facilities.

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