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JANUARY 24, 2025

University of Michigan ] Hair styling is a crucial aspect of personal grooming, significantly influenced by the appearance of front hair. This research presents a novel robotic system designed to automatically adjust front hairstyles, with an emphasis on path planning for root-centric strand adjustment. Looks like maybe not.

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DECEMBER 18, 2024

the Charlotte suburb he calls home. In 2004, the Centralina region (the Greater Charlotte metro area, which straddles the North CarolinaSouth Carolina border) was designated as a non-attainment area for ozone under the Clean Air Act. program at the University of Pisa in Italy, the ancient university where Galileo taught.

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JANUARY 3, 2025

Osaka University ] For 2025, the RoboCup SPL plans an interesting new technical challenge: Kicking a rolling ball! In this project, we investigate non-humanoid prosthetic hand design, exploring a new ideology for the design of upper limb prostheses that encourages alternative approaches to prosthetic hands.

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APRIL 18, 2025

Unitree ] A team of scientists and students from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands (TU Delft) has taken first place at the A2RL Drone Championship in Abu Dhabi - an international race that pushes the limits of physical artificial intelligence, challenging teams to fly fully autonomous drones using only a single camera.

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OCTOBER 1, 2024

On 28 October 1904, on the campus of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign , Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) was founded by a group of young men led by Maurice L. From its humble beginning until today, HKN has established nearly 280 university chapters worldwide. HKN is a lifelong designation.

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JUNE 26, 2021

Enhancement of PyARC for Westinghouse Electric Company’s Lead Fast Reactor design and modeling, $450,000. Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, Illinois). Multiscale Manufacturing Design Tool Based on Machine Learning Workflow, $250,000. Electric Power Research Institute (Charlotte, North Carolina). Beam Suntory, Inc.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2025

As we celebrate our 40th anniversary year, were looking ahead to decades more of imagining, designing, and inventing a future in which everyone has the opportunity to flourish. [ In this article, we present a design concept, in which a monolithic soft body is incorporated with a vibration-driven mechanism, called Leafbot. Like, a lot.

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JULY 8, 2024

Early examples of this long-lived design are tough to find these days, so I was happy to find this '76 in a North Carolina self-service yard a couple of months back. Here's a 1980-1981 University of North Carolina Charlotte parking sticker. It appears that this van has spent all or most of its life in North Carolina.

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JANUARY 16, 2025

Via a solar-powered cableway inspired by clusters of weavers nests, guests can silently soar above the UNESCO-designated Vhembe Biosphere Reserves mountains and rivers to spy on herds of buffalo and stalking leopards far below. The minimalist aesthetic is perfect for the mountains, says the designer. From $89, ikigaifruits.com.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Contact Ron Johnston-Rodriguez: info [at] plugincenter.com or (509) 663-5159 Todd Dore and Fox Valley Electric Auto Association , "GrayPearl," EAA-PHEV/Manzanita Micro-style design, November 2006 (N. University of Manitoba by Hymotion, April 2007 (Winnipeg, Manitoba), contact eric_bibeau@umanitoba.ca Wisconsin Public Power Inc.

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APRIL 21, 2009

The nonprofit CalCars does conversions to demonstrate new designs and provide a platform for different batteries; we dont sell conversions. We have sponsored the EAA-PHEV project and our Open-Source designs are being used by some of the private companies as well as technically advanced individuals.

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MARCH 4, 2023

Bordered by I-77 and Blythewood Road, its strategic location is less than 20 miles north of Columbia and near major cities and talent hubs such as Charleston, Charlotte, Greenville, and Atlanta. This proximity gives Scout access to major highways, ports of Charleston and Savannah, and universities focused on automotive engineering.

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MAY 2, 2025

Featuring lightweight design with extreme-environment endurance, it conquers rugged mountain trails, muddy wetlands and debris-strewn ruinspioneering embodied intelligence in power inspection, emergency response, logistics, and scientific exploration. And heres a bit more on how it was done, mostly with arms from Universal Robots. [

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NOVEMBER 29, 2009

The Copenhagen timeline was designed to allow signatory countries two years to hash out details of their respective compliance issues so that a replacement protocol could be ratified and “entered into force”, or made operational internationally, by the time the Kyoto Protocol expires.

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JUNE 28, 2023

CRAWFORD EMPLOYER Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. TITLE ‘Professor of civil engineering, agronomy, and electrical and computer engineering MEMBER GRADE Fellow ALMA MATERS University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Ohio State University, Columbus But her engineering path eventually led her back to agriculture.

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MARCH 28, 2014

Jef Boeke, director of NYU Langone Medical Center’s Institute for Systems Genetics, has synthesized the first functional chromosome in yeast, an important step in the emerging field of synthetic biology—designing microorganisms to produce novel medicines, raw materials for food, and biofuels. —Annaluru et al.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2009

A University of Melbourne senior lecturer in fire ecology, Kevin Tolhurst, calculated that radiant heat from the fires would be enough to kill at distances of up to 140 meters (460 feet), with conditions similar to Dresden firestorms rapidly increasing body core temperatures and interrupting metabolic processes. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 28, 2025

Researchers from the University of California San Diego and BASF, describe how they developed the robot in an advanced online publication in the journal Advanced Intelligent Systems. This design approach is not only robust, it is also cheapeach robot costs about $20 to manufacture. Delft University of Technology ] Mush!

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JUNE 20, 2023

Nor is it surprising, as a University of California, Berkeley study found, that homeowners purchase EVs at nearly six times the rate of renters. One EV charger maker, Atom Power located in Charlotte, N.C., light-duty vehicle sales. and SK Energy.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Soft organisms use specialized mechanisms for burrowing in granular media, which have inspired the design of many soft robots. OTTO ] by [ Rockwell Automation ] This Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute Seminar is from CMUs Aaron Johnson, on Uncertainty and Contact with the World.

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MAY 9, 2025

Kuka ] MIT engineers are getting in on the robotic ping pong game with a powerful, lightweight design that returns shots with high-speed precision. In this study, we introduce QuadRotary, a novel vehicle that integrates the strengths of both flight characteristics through a reconfigurable design.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2025

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ] Im impressed with the capabilities here, but not the use case. Figure ] NEO Gamma is the next generation of home humanoids designed and engineered by 1X Technologies. Science Robotics ] via [ EPFL ] A robot CAN get up this way, but SHOULD a robot get up this way? AVFL ] Yes! But it worked!

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