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MIT analysis finds current EVs could replace ~90% of personal vehicles now on the road based on driver’s energy consumption

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A study by a team at MIT has concluded that roughly 90% of the personal vehicles on the road in the US could be replaced by an electric vehicle available on the market today, even if the cars can only charge overnight. Together, the two datasets encompass millions of trips made by drivers all around the country. —Jessika Trancik.

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Building Human-Robot Relationships Through Music and Dance

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You can imagine how this concept can extend to movements and gestures as well, and effective robot-to-human interaction will need to account for this. That’s prosody. Many of the robots in this performance are already well known, including Shimon , one of Gil Weinberg’s most creative performers.

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Teen Creates App To Identify Nutrient Deficiencies

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His father suggested he think about ikigai , a Japanese concept referring to something that gives a person a sense of purpose. If, for example, the app detects the person has a folate deficiency, it recommends foods such as asparagus, spinach, and sunflower seeds, he says. The app starts with a photo of a nail taken by a user.

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Car Crash Prevention System Wins Student $10,000 IEEE Scholarship

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Hacettepe University , in Ankara. IEEE Presidents' Scholarship , which is payable over four years of undergraduate university study. The concept of a 3D-printed 3D printer was a theory before Minnick began his project three years ago. University of California, Santa Cruz. Bayhan, who lives in ?zmit, Kerem Bayhan.

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Q&A: Inside DARPA’s Subterranean Challenge

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As in the preliminary events, humans weren’t permitted on the course, and only one person from each team was allowed to interact remotely with the team’s robots, so direct remote control was impractical. and Team CSIRO Data61—consisting of CSIRO’s Data61; Emesent; and Georgia Tech. What was special about the Subterranean Challenge?

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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The projects selected are located in 25 states, with 50% of projects led by universities, 23% by small businesses, 12% by large businesses, 13% by national labs, and 2% by non-profits. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Development of a Dedicated, High-Value Biofuels Crop The University of Massachusetts, Amherst will develop an.

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Using AI to Clear Land Mines in Ukraine

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Clearance happens one of three ways, usually, but it always ends up with a person on the ground basically doing extreme gardening. At the moment, there is no conception of replacing a human in demining operations, and people that try to push that eventuality are usually disregarded pretty quickly. Steinberg: Exactly. Steinberg: Yeah.

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