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It is important to note that none of the oil recovery processes described in this paper are currently practiced at the commercial scale with algae feedstock. Michael Matturro, Corporate Programs Laboratory Director for ExxonMobil, provided a brief overview of the scope of the work.

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The recent progress in commercial humanoids is just exhausting. Paper ] via [ EPFL LIS ] Nissan announces the concept model of “Iruyo”, a robot that supports babysitting while driving. GitHub ] via [ MIT ] This is one of those things that’s far more difficult than it might look. IHMC ] Thanks, Robert!

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Under the new contracts, the teams will now develop concepts and models that can be tested in computer simulations, laboratories and wind tunnels. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Mass., Aircraft and Technology Concepts for N+3 Subsonic Transport, $4.6 Subsonic Ultra Green Aircraft Research, or SUGAR, $8.8

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FEBRUARY 17, 2017

The speed of the sensor is not limited by any traditional concept such as exposure time, frame rate, etc. Chen and his researchers have spun off a start-up company named Hillhouse Tech to commercialize the new camera technology. The response time to the pixel event is at nanosecond scale.

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MAN Energy Solutions has been working on a two-stroke motor it expects to be commercially available for maritime applications by 2024. Amogy, a startup founded by four MIT graduates, even revealed an ammonia-electric semi truck at the start of 2023 and had previously modified a John Deere tractor to run on the fuel.

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Of the techniques currently in development, other water harvesting technologies are likely closer to commercial applications, according to Chiara Neto , a professor of physical chemistry at the University of Sydney. Yu’s research “provides guidance on how to increase efficiency of the water capture process,” Neto says.

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MARCH 4, 2016

NASA’s recent focus on supersonic research testing began in November 2010 as part of the project’s Experimental Systems Validations for N+2 Supersonic Commercial Transport Aircraft effort. Artist’s concept of a possible Low Boom Flight Demonstration Quiet Supersonic Transport (QueSST) X-plane design. million over four years to MIT.

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MAY 14, 2020

The Electric Power Research Institute’s (EPRI) proof-of-concept study will explore moving from the traditional “maintain and repair” to a “replace and refurbish” approach, in which components are intentionally designed and tested for shorter and more predictable lifetimes with the potential for game-changing O&M cost savings.

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He probably is best known for developing the lithium cobalt oxide cathode in 1980—which became the foundation for Sony’s first commercial lithium-ion battery in 1991. Stanley Whittingham , who created the lithium-ion concept, and Akira Yoshino , who developed the anode chemistry that was used in Sony’s first lithium-ion battery.

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MIT researchers have engineered a new rechargeable, membrane-less hydrogen bromine laminar flow battery with high power density. —Cullen Buie, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, co-author. Credit: Braff et al. Click to enlarge. The membrane-less design enables power densities of 0.795?

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JULY 31, 2023

But as the company focuses more on commercializing its technology , Raibert has become more interested in pursuing the long-term vision of what robotics can be. Marc Raibert Raibert was a professor at Carnegie Mellon and MIT before founding Boston Dynamics in 1992. He now leads the Boston Dynamics AI Institute.

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JULY 25, 2016

An international team from MIT, Argonne National Laboratory and Peking University has demonstrated a lab-scale proof-of-concept of a new type of cathode for Li-air batteries that could overcome the current drawbacks to the technology, including a high potential gap (>1.2 V) V versus Li/Li +.

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DECEMBER 16, 2022

DEBOY Infineon Technologies Austria AG Villach, Austria TATSUHIKO FUJIHIRA Fuji Electric Matsumoto, Japan “For contributions to the concept and realization of superjunction power devices that significantly improve power efficiency.” For additional information on the recipients and the awards process, please visit the IEEE Awards website.

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The DIGIT touch sensor is based on the GelSight style of sensor, which was first conceptualized at MIT over a decade ago. The bill of materials for each DIGIT sensor is about US $15 if you were to make a thousand of them, so we're expecting that the commercial version won't cost much more than that.

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We at Electrek have covered much of that journey, including the evolution of Lightyear’s original solar EV concept into the Lightyear 0, and were even present for that seemingly pivotal, now less-relevant milestone in Finland, when the flagship SEV began production … briefly.

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MAY 15, 2010

An MIT-led team has designed an airplane that is estimated to use 70% less fuel than current planes while also reducing noise and emission of NO x. million research contract to develop environmental and performance concepts that will help guide the agency’s aeronautics research over the next 25 years. Click to enlarge. .

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He also launched a startup to commercialize his lab’s expertise: Cyran AI Solutions , based in New Delhi, works with companies and government agencies on a variety of projects. Since his role was to take a project all the way from concept to fabrication, it was as close to pure research as he could get in industry.

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Researchers at MIT had earlier demonstrated the ability to make biopropane (LPG from corn or sugarcane) using a supercritical water process, and created a startup (C3 BioEnergy) in 2007 that attempted to commercialize the technology. This concept, if commercialized, would avoid a key. Stored and transported like.

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The three founders—Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Chris Urmson, Chief Product Officer (CPO) Sterling Anderson and Chief Technical Officer (CTO) Drew Bagnell—and deep academic and commercial experience in the field. He has a PhD in Robotics from MIT. Chris Urmson, Co-founder & CEO. Earlier post.).

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Commercial trucks already have guard bars on the back to prevent such accidents, so instead of looking to improve trucks, Bayhan decided to build an attachment for cars. The incoming freshman at MIT won $600. The concept of a 3D-printed 3D printer was a theory before Minnick began his project three years ago. Brian Minnick.

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AUGUST 10, 2011

Light-weighting materials : Five projects awarded to accelerate commercial availability of lighter weight vehicles using advanced materials that dramatically reduce vehicle weight while maintaining the highest safety standards. valve train vs. bearings). Light-weighting materials. Fleet efficiency. Grantee Description. PPG Industries, Inc.

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The project will draw on ORNL’s expertise in fuels, materials, instrumentation and controls, design concepts, and modeling and simulation for advanced reactors, as well as the lab’s experience in the design, construction and operation of the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment, the only molten salt reactor ever built. Continuous fiber composites.

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The Phase 1 projects will focus on an engineering and economic analysis of the technologies while identifying the Phase 2 research and development needs to bring the technology closer to commercialization. The boiler concept should allow for a more compact combustor with reduced gas-phase heat exchanger surface area.

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MAY 26, 2011

Yet-Ming Chiang (co-founder of A123 Systems), report on their development of a new energy storage concept—a semi-solid flow cell (SSFC) combining the high energy density of rechargeable batteries with the flexible and scalable architecture of fuel cells and flow batteries—in a paper published in the journal Advanced Energy Materials.

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Proposed by John Heywood and colleagues at MIT in 2005, the basic premise of E85 boosting is that ethanol (or other lower alcohols) suppresses knock due to the large evaporative cooling effect it has on the air-fuel mixture when injected directly into the cylinder, supplemented by ethanol’s inherent high octane number. Earlier post.)

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MARCH 11, 2023

The concept behind V2G had gained traction in the late 1990s after California’s landmark zero-emission-vehicle (ZEV) mandate went into effect and compelled automakers to commercialize electric cars. And with the revival of the EV, the V2G concept was reborn. The experiment seemed to prove the feasibility of the technology.

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APRIL 30, 2010

More than 540 initial concept papers were received in the three focus areas. The aerobic microbe has been engineered at MIT and is capable of converting a variety of organic compounds into oil, from which biodiesel may be produced. A novel metal complex for electrolysis of water will be used to generate the hydrogen at high rates.

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JANUARY 17, 2011

A recent white paper by Leslie Bromberg of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center and Wai K. In the DIAB concept, DI of the knock suppressing fuel is used only in the amount required to prevent knock and gasoline is supplied to the cylinder by conventional PFI (port fuel injection).

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Although military aircraft were breaking the sound barrier daily during the 1950s and '60s, commercial passenger flights during this time remained limited to subsonic speeds. Now, several aircraft manufacturers and NASA are intent on ushering in a new era of supersonic commercial aviation. now appears to be going out of business.

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MARCH 20, 2012

In 1935, Adolf Busemann proposed a biplane concept that divided a diamond airfoil into two components and placed the triangular surfaces facing each other—i.e., For decades, the speed of commercial aircraft was constrained by the sound barrier. Conceptual drawing of a supersonic biplane in flight. Credit: Tohoku University.

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AUGUST 10, 2015

Advances in magnet technology have enabled researchers at MIT to propose a new design for a practical compact tokamak fusion reactor that might be realized in as little as a decade: the ARC (affordable, robust, compact) reactor. The finished, 2.3-ton This significant improvement leads to a cascade of potential improvements in reactor design.

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JANUARY 22, 2022

This is the moment that the concept of electronic paper, or e-paper, went mainstream. Its story began a decade earlier, in 1997, at the MIT Media Lab , when it was created by two students, J.D. After all, black-and-white e-paper took only 10 years from concept to commercialization. We needed something entirely new.

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MARCH 5, 2013

A team of researchers at MIT has described a framework for efficiently coupling the power output of a series-connected string of single-band-gap solar cells to an electrochemical process that produces storable fuels. Watson Research Center) and former MIT graduate student Casandra Cox (now at Harvard). Source: Winkler et al.

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AUGUST 10, 2009

John Kirwan from Delphi presented a 3-cylinder turbocharged SIDI concept, “ a high value solution for meeting Euro 6 in smaller passenger cars ”. Differentiated Analysis of Downsizing Concepts”). Advanced boosting concepts. We see dramatic downsizing and boosting [as] something that’s going to for gasoline engines especially.

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At commercial scale, the inputs to the proposed “carbon refinery” process are carbon-free renewable energy, water, and CO 2. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has engineered the oleaginous yeast Yarrowia lipolytica to produce biodiesel-like lipids and alkanes.

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JULY 19, 2011

Proof-of-concept demonstrations have been deployed in Michigan and California, but there are to date no widespread deployments. Specialized system such as forward-looking radar are not really built off of commercial technologies, Shulman notes, and the volumes are low. MIT and smart intersections. — Mike Shulman.

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Researchers at the Max Planck Institute in Dusseldorf, Germany, and MIT have developed a novel strategy to design nanostructured, bulk high-entropy alloys (HEAs) ( earlier post ) with multiple compositionally equivalent high-entropy phases. Source: MIT. The new approach is described in a paper this week in the journal Nature.

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