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MIT proof-of-concept demo of ionic wind propulsion for aircraft

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MIT researchers have demonstrated that an aircraft with a 5-meter wingspan can sustain steady-level flight using ionic-wind propulsion. The researchers describe their proof of concept for electroaerodynamic (EAD) airplane propulsion in a paper in the journal Nature. The MIT team’s final design resembles a large, lightweight glider.

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Video Friday: Swarm Control

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In this video, we explore a future concept-of-operations for swarm management and how large groups of robots and drones will be able to interact and work together. MIT CSAIL ] Thanks, Rachel! This was the final demo of the MEMMO Horizon Europe Project. Paper at IROS next week! [ Oxford ] Lex Fridman interviews Kate Darling. [

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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. Raibert showed concept art at ICRA that included robots working in domestic environments such as kitchens, living rooms, and laundry rooms as well as industrial settings. “I He now leads the Boston Dynamics AI Institute.

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US DOE awards more than $175M to 40 projects for advanced vehicle research and development

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Demo Project for Multi-material light-weight prototype vehicle. This project will develop and demonstrate a new class of fuel efficient tires, focused on the replacement market, using innovative materials technology and tire design concepts to improve overall fuel efficiency by 3%. valve train vs. bearings). Grantee Description.

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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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In 1965, Larry Roberts, then at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory , connected one computer in Massachusetts to another in California over a telephone line. Kahn postponed his planned return to MIT and continued to work on expanding this network. The demos, he recalled, ran 24 hours a day for nearly a week.

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ONE’s hybrid battery pack combines the best aspects of two chemistries to deliver 600 miles of EV range

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kWh battery with an energy density of 416 Wh/l, and drove it 752 miles on a single charge, as a proof of concept. The BMW iX demo will use generation one, [which] contains nickel and cobalt. Now we are working with BMW towards a full demo pack in a vehicle, basically the next evolution of the Tesla range demo we did in January.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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Some of these real-world offspring, like the Apple Lisa computer and the Hewlett-Packard LaserJet printer, took many of their root concepts from PARC; others, like the Ada computer language and the Intel 1103 dynamic RAM chip, are less closely related. What an ideal concept that would be for Xerox.

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