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Innovative Shins Turn Quadrupedal Robot Biped

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The mechanical side of this bipedalization is a 3D-printed stick that gets installed onto the shin of each of the quadruped’s hind legs. We are currently developing a “variant end effector” for the forelimbs to allow this quadruped robot to become a “two-arm manipulator” when standing, handling objects and operating environments.

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The First U.S. Human-Operated Submersible Changed the Course of Oceanography

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After the conference, the research office sent a delegation, including Vine, to Italy to see the 18-meter-long, 45-tonne vehicle. Alvin sank about 1,500 meters to the bottom of the ocean in 1968, 217 km off the Massachusetts coast. In May a new video system, robotics, and new syntactic foam modules were installed.

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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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The largest PV installation in Georgia. Install photovoltaic capacity to generate “green” hydrogen: Install multiple PV modules at its Central Maintenance Facility in Hayward. An additional manual charging station would be installed at Operations Base. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, Massachusetts: $2,500,000.

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The Business of Plugging In: Building the Full Ecosystem for a Successful Plug-in Vehicle Industry in the US

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The conference was sold out; it was also essentially a PowerPoint-free zone; the basic format relied heavily on brief introductory remarks from sets of speakers representing the diverse stakeholders, followed by questions from attendees. ” Furthermore, given that the distribution of PEVs will not be homogeneous—e.g.,

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

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The Open Environment and How It Changed PARC started with a small nucleus—perhaps fewer than 20 people. The architecture goes back to the TX-2, built with 32 program counters at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Lincoln Laboratories in the late 1950s. Nine came from the Berkeley Computer Corp., Mountain View, Calif.—began

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Inside the Global Race to Tap Potent Offshore Wind

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And installing a turbine atop a tower that’s twice as tall as the Statue of Liberty requires dedicated and costly vessels, which are in short supply worldwide. They are making sure that everything works in this moving environment,” he says. MW rotors , set for installation this year off Macau. The trio of industrial Ph.D.s

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