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MIT researchers pursuing increasing human-vehicle collaboration

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Researchers at MIT are developing systems that could allow humans, robots and other autonomous vehicles to collaborate on everything from navigation to trip planning, and eventually pave the way for the operation of personal aircraft and driverless cars. Video: Personal Transportation System with Improved Plan Diagnosis.

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Video Friday: Pedipulate

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This work, by Philip Arm, Mayank Mittal, Hendrik Kolvenbach, and Marco Hutter from ETHZ RSL, will be presented at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation ( ICRA 2024 ) in May in Japan (see events calendar above). NRL did some interesting stuff with Nexi robots from MIT and made their own videos. Lex Fridman ]

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MIT professor pursuing direct sulfide electrolysis for copper production

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King Assistant Professor of Metallurgy at MIT, is proposing a direct sulfide electrolysis process to simplify copper extraction and eliminate noxious byproducts. Experience in the aluminum industry shows that it is actually fairly cheap to make the electrolysis device, Allanore said. Antoine Allanore, the Thomas B. Hoar and R.G.

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MIT team finds lead levels higher in Indian Ocean than northern Atlantic and Pacific oceans

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MIT researchers have discovered that lead concentrations in the Indian Ocean are now higher than in the northern Atlantic and northern Pacific oceans. They are presenting their results this week at the Goldschmidt Geochemistry Conference in Montreal.

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MIT study concludes V2G-enabled electric commercial trucks could offer lower total operating cost than conventional diesel fleet

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The study added one new component to the projections often made by industry fleet managers—the researchers looked at what would happen if the fleets of trucks were part of a vehicle-to-grid (V2G) system in which their batteries could be plugged into the electricity grid for 12 hours overnight for regulation services.

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MIT team developing 1MW motor for electric aviation

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A team of MIT engineers is developing a 1MW motor that could be a key stepping stone toward electrifying larger aircraft. The project is sponsored by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI). As designed, the MIT electric motor and power electronics are each about the size of a checked suitcase weighing less than an adult passenger.

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MIT automotive crash model could forecast oil and gas pipe fractures; Deepwater Horizon case study

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A computer model that tests automobile components for crashworthiness could also be of use to the oil and gas industry, according to researchers at MIT’s Impact and Crashworthiness Laboratory, who are now using their simulations of material deformation in car crashes to predict how pipes may fracture in offshore drilling accidents.

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