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Steel industry to launch FutureSteelVehicle program focused on lightweighting for advanced powertrain vehicles

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The Steel Market Development Institute (SMDI), a unit of the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI), will launch FutureSteelVehicle (FSV) at the 10 th Annual Great Designs in Steel (GDIS) seminar Wednesday, 18 May in Livonia, Mich. Weight reduction will be important to these newly designed powertrains.

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Video Friday: Perseverance Autonomy

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CNRS-AIST JRL ] The Rai Lab at KAIST would like to introduce Raibo, a "dynamic and versatile quadruped robot." [ Rai Lab ] The M1600 was designed for high-volume robotic applications with direct input from our customers. UofT Robotics Institute Seminar: Dorsa Sadigh on Learning from Non-Traditional Sources of Data. www.youtube.com.

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NASA testing new boundary layer ingesting (BLI) propulsor; 4-8% fuel burn savings over current advanced engines

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MIT and NASA engineers earlier proposed the D8 Series as one future aircraft design concept that uses boundary layer ingestion. If this new design and its enabling technologies can be made to work, the BLI propulsor will produce the required thrust with less propulsive power input. Hardin, Gregory Tillman, Om P.

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Video Friday: ReachBot

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ReachBot is a new concept for planetary exploration, consisting of a small body and long, lightweight extending arms loaded primarily in tension. Boston Dynamics ] Scientists at the University of Bristol have drawn on the design and life of a mysterious zooplankton to develop underwater robots.

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Video Friday: Your Robot Dog

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It has a user-oriented design concept, with new functions such as voice interaction, sound source positioning, and safety and collision avoidance, giving users a better interactive experience and safety assurance. Cybathlon ] Will drone deliveries be a practical part of our future? CMU RI ].

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Video Friday: ANYmals and Animals

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NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) are solidifying concepts for this proposed Mars Sample Return campaign. Designed and built at the Bio-Inspired and Medical Robotics Lab at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev by Nitzan Ben David and David Zarrouk. [ It is the latest in the family of the STAR robots. Robot Brains ].

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Video Friday: Ingenuity’s 50th Flight

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50 flights is 45 flights more than this little helicopter was designed for, which is bonkers. This demonstrates how the fully-soft rotary electromagnetic actuator can bridge the gap between the capabilities of traditional hard motors and novel soft actuator concepts. Paper ] via [ Sensing Technologies Laboratory ] Thanks, Noah!