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BMW opens new Shanghai R&D center; focus on human-machine interaction and hardware-software integration

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BMW’s software development department was established in 2002 and is now located in Mountain View (USA), Lisbon and Porto (Portugal), Munich and Ulm (Germany), Tokyo (Japan) and Shanghai, Beijing and Nanjing (China), with more than 8,000 software specialists worldwide. The Shenyang R&D Center has a global-leading EMC laboratory.

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Toyota Motor Europe to supply fuel cell modules for train project as member of FCH2RAIL consortium

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The main objective of the FCH2RAIL project is to develop, build, test, demonstrate and homologate a scalable, modular and multi-purpose Fuel Cell Hybrid PowerPack (FCHPP) applicable for different rail applications (multiple unit, mainline and shunting locomotives) also suitable to for retrofit existing electric and diesel trains, to reach TRL7.

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Will Robots Triumph over World Cup Winners by 2050?

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The level of competition was, by today’s standards, not very high. RoboCup was unusual during its early years in that it forced people to build complete, integrated working systems that could sense, decide, and act. The first standard platform for RoboCup was the Aibo , a small robot dog made by Sony.

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Video Friday: Penguins and Huskies

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RSS 2022 : 21–1 June 2022, NEW YORK CITY ERF 2022 : 28–30 June 2022, ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS RoboCup 2022 : 11–17 July 2022, BANGKOK IEEE CASE 2022 : 20–24 August 2022, MEXICO CITY CLAWAR 2022 : 12–14 September 2022, AZORES, PORTUGAL Enjoy today's videos! ZenRobotics ] At Agility, we make robots that are made for work.

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12 Exciting Engineering Milestones to Look for in 2022

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Right now, 5-nm chips are the standard. To build this first public metaverse, Seoul will invest 3.9 FASER won’t attempt to detect the particles directly; instead, it will search for the more strongly interacting Standard Model particles created when dark matter interacts with something else. in the second half of 2022.

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European Experts Say Transformation Needed to Meet 2025 World Challenges

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Commenting during the presentation of the results, group expert Joao Caraca of the Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian in Portugal said that Europe needed good policy in order to retain its traditionally strong position in developing cutting-edge innovation that was not just based on incremental improvements of existing technology. “

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Clearing the roadblocks to electrification of heavy-duty trucks

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Now nominally retired and living in Portugal, he remains active in the infrastructure space as a consultant, and closely follows the development of the EV charging ecosystem. When we were first starting off at Daimler Truck, trying to find a battery cell supplier that would build us a pack that was good in the truck was difficult.

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