Robot Passes Turing Test for Polyculture Gardening
Cars That Think
MAY 28, 2023
The future here is a little uncertain, though—the hardware is pretty expensive, and human labor is (relatively) cheap. Expert human knowledge is not cheap, of course.
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Unico's Battery Testing Enters a Competitive Industry
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MARCH 25, 2024
At the International Battery Seminar & Exhibit held 12-15 March in Orlando, many of the world’s leading battery makers, test equipment manufacturers, and theorists gathered to talk about advances in the field and to present new products claiming to make the battery production process quicker and cheaper.
Pneumatic Actuators Give Robot Cheetah-Like Acceleration
Cars That Think
JUNE 28, 2023
While the electric motors give the kind of precise control that we’ve come to expect from electric motors, the pistons are controlled by simple (and cheap) binary valves that can either be on or off.
Boston Dynamics’ Founder on the Future of Robotics
Cars That Think
JULY 31, 2023
At the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics at Automation (ICRA) in London this past May, Raibert gave a keynote talk that discussed some of his specific goals, with an emphasis on developing practical, helpful capabilities in robots. He now leads the Boston Dynamics AI Institute. All that really mattered was the data in your paper.
The Technical Failure That Could Clear The Oil Glut In A Matter Of Weeks
Green Car Congress
JULY 16, 2017
At present, the main issue being reported on is that there has been corrosion of the water injection system, which is used to keep pressure in the reservoir. His assessments are based on regional (OPEC) developments, as production of oil and gas in the so-called cheap oil regions is also under threat.
MIT professor pursuing direct sulfide electrolysis for copper production
Green Car Congress
MAY 2, 2014
In a presentation for the Copper International Conference in Santiago, Chile, in December 2013, Allanore noted the proof of concept for producing copper and sulfur by electrodecomposition of copper sulfide, achieved by T.P. Ward and published in the London-based Transactions of the Institute of Mining and Metallurgy in 1958.
Researchers from MIT and Sun Catalytix develop an artificial leaf for solar water splitting to produce hydrogen and oxygen
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 30, 2011
Such systems, Nocera hopes, could be made simple and inexpensive enough so that they could be widely adopted throughout the world, including many areas that do not presently have access to reliable sources of electricity.
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