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Stanford researchers develop new electrolysis system to split seawater into hydrogen and oxygen

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Existing water-splitting methods rely on highly purified water—a precious resource and costly to produce. However, grid-scale freshwater electrolysis would put a heavy strain on vital water resources. Their findings are published in an open-access paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Jackson and C.J.

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What Robotics Experts Think of Tesla’s Optimus Robot

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What excites me is the idea of cheap and accessible hardware! In the brief demo, they showed it had a reasonably high loading capacity (holding plant-watering water cans, and lifting bars of aluminum in the factory). Also, doing a live demo without a tether (safety catch rope) is braver than people know. BACK TO TOP ↑ ].

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Linc Energy Chinchilla UCG to Liquids Demo Plant Producing High-Quality Synthetic Hydrocarbons

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Linc Energy says it can now use this abundant and relatively cheap gas to make synthetic liquid hydrocarbons (with a focus on diesel). “My The demonstration plant has now operated over extended periods with the anticipated levels of reliability. My aim was to prove that we could take UCG gas and turn it into liquids and we’ve done that.

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Boston Dynamics’ Founder on the Future of Robotics

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I look forward to having some demos of something like this happening at ICRA 2028 or 2029,” Raibert quipped. You could talk about what you want to do, but people talk about all kinds of things that way—the future is so cheap, and so variable. And we’ll give them the resources they need to go after problems that way. “If

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ONR developing offensive autonomous swarming capability for unmanned surface vehicles; adapting JPL’s CARACaS

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CARACaS is intended to satisfy the need for two major capabilities essential for proper functioning of an autonomous robotic system: a capability for deterministic reaction to unanticipated occurrences and a capability for re-planning in the face of changing goals, conditions, or resources. —Adm. —Chief of Naval Research Rear Adm.

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Europe Expands Virtual Borders To Thwart Migrants

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If it were legal to deliver rescued migrants to Libya, it would be as cheap as sending rescue boats a few extra kilometers south instead of east. Now, Frontex is refocusing its resources from shipboard patrols to aerial and remote sensing, according to its. percent to €543 million in 2021.

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For Better or Worse, Tesla Bot Is Exactly What We Expected

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Tesla Bot Development Platform Demo. Tesla After the very brief live demo, Musk showed some video clips of the prototype robot doing other things (starting at 19:30 in the livestream). Tesla Bot Latest Generation Demo. Tesla likely has more resources to throw at this problem than almost anyone else.

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