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MIT professor pursuing direct sulfide electrolysis for copper production

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King Assistant Professor of Metallurgy at MIT, is proposing a direct sulfide electrolysis process to simplify copper extraction and eliminate noxious byproducts. Ward and published in the London-based Transactions of the Institute of Mining and Metallurgy in 1958. Antoine Allanore, the Thomas B. Hoar and R.G.

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Researchers from MIT and Sun Catalytix develop an artificial leaf for solar water splitting to produce hydrogen and oxygen

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Researchers led by MIT professor Daniel Nocera have produced an “artificial leaf”—a solar water-splitting cell producing hydrogen and oxygen that operates in near-neutral pH conditions, both with and without connecting wires. The cells were operated in a two-electrode cell configuration. (B) Reece et al. Click to enlarge.

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Boston Dynamics’ Founder on the Future of Robotics

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Marc Raibert Raibert was a professor at Carnegie Mellon and MIT before founding Boston Dynamics in 1992. 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. Marc Raibert was a professor at Carnegie Mellon and MIT before founding Boston Dynamics in 1992.

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Pneumatic Actuators Give Robot Cheetah-Like Acceleration

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If you go back far enough, to the 1980s, when Marc Raibert was developing dynamic legged robots at MIT, those running and jumping robots were relying on pneumatics rather than hydraulics, because pneumatics were much easier to implement.

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The Turbulent Past and Uncertain Future of Artificial Intelligence

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In 1967, MIT professor. But the cheap computers that supplanted expert systems turned out to be a boon for the connectionists, who suddenly had access to enough computer power to run neural networks with many layers of artificial neurons. The MIT Museum. Cornell University Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections.

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A Quantum of Sensing—Atomic Scale Bolsters New Sensor Boom

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MIT The nano-diamonds and the other materials used in the test are cheap. We hope to get promising results very soon," says researcher Changhao Li , a quantum engineer at MIT. Now a quantum sensor from Imperial College London and Glasgow-based company M Squared can help ships navigate even when GPS is denied.

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