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MIT study says combustion emissions cause ~200,000 premature deaths/year in US; vehicles and power generation top sources

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Annual average concentrations of fine particulates from US sources of combustion emissions from (a) electric power generation; (b) industry; (c) commercial and residential sources; (d) road transportation; (e) marine transportation; (f) rail transportation; (g) sum of all combustion sources; (h) all sources. Source: MIT. Click to enlarge.

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Video Friday: Lunar Rover

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ICRA 2022 : 23–27 May 2022, Philadelphia ERF 2022 : 28–30 June 2022, Rotterdam, the Netherlands CLAWAR 2022 : 12–14 September 2022, Açores, Portugal Let us know if you have suggestions for next week, and enjoy today's videos. Scaling beyond 1,000 RoboTaxis represents a significant leap forward for larger scale commercialization.

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Video Friday: Robotics After Hours

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: ICRA 2022 : 23–27 May 2022, Philadelphia ERF 2022 : 28–30 June 2022, Rotterdam, the Netherlands CLAWAR 2022 : 12–14 September 2022, Açores, Portugal Let us know if you have suggestions for next week, and enjoy today's videos. In this paper, we address the learning model predictive control problem for quadrotors.

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Video Friday: Ameca Humanoid

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CSIRO SubT Summit – December 10, 2021 – Online ICRA 2022 – May 23-27, 2022 – Philadelphia, PA, USA Let us know if you have suggestions for next week, and enjoy today's videos. JPL ] I'm not totally sold on the viability of commercial bathroom cleaning robots, but I do appreciate how well the techology seems to work.

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THINK Releases US EV-Ready Cities Index

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The remaining cities included Denver, Boston, Washington, DC, Philadelphia and Phoenix. Since EVs are a unique solution for congested urban environments, we are taking a city-by-city approach rather than a national or state-by-state approach. Philadelphia. Rounding out the top ten were Newark, Seattle and Atlanta. Sacramento.

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Explore Pioneering Software at the Computer History Museum

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The programming language and environment was developed at Xerox Parc , in Palo Alto, Calif. Brock says that although Lisa wasn’t a commercial success, it was important in establishing the graphical user interface as we know it today. The source code for Apple’s Lisa , the predecessor to the Macintosh, is set to be exhibited next month.

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Video Friday: Sweet Bite Ham Ham

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