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JANUARY 21, 2018

MIT researchers have discovered a way to increase the efficiency of thermoelectric materials threefold by using “topological” materials, which have unique electronic properties. But it is unclear how this enhancement in efficiency connects with the material’s inherent, topological properties.

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The new research effort, named CSRC Next, will focus on the challenges and opportunities of autonomous and connected vehicle technologies over the next decade. First announced in 2014, CSRC Next ( earlier post ) will direct $35 million through 2021 towards research designed to support a safe transition to the future of mobility.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Researchers at MIT have carried out the most detailed analysis yet of lithium dendrite formation from lithium anodes in batteries and have found that there are two entirely different mechanisms at work. The MIT team carried out tests at higher current levels that clearly revealed the two distinct types of growth. —Bai et al.

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AT&T named him chief scientist, and in that position he worked on developing architecture and protocols for a large-scale Internet so that customers could connect to it from their homes. His research interests included the design and fabrication of neuromorphic devices and circuits, flash memories, and silicon quantum devices.

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MARCH 29, 2024

Now, an MIT spin-off says it has found a solution in an innovative technology that could dramatically reduce the costs and timelines of drilling to fantastic depths. It wasn’t much of a jump to make the connection that if we can melt steel chambers and vaporize them, we could melt rocks.” Quaise Energy , based in Cambridge, Mass.,

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CSRC will concentrate on supporting a safe transition to the future of mobility, particularly through emerging automated- and connected-vehicle technologies. Autonomous driving Big Data Connected vehicles Driver Assistance Systems Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Research Safety'

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FEBRUARY 2, 2012

A Stanford University research team is designing a high-efficiency wireless charging system using magnetic resonance coupling ( earlier post ) to wirelessly transmit large electric currents between metal coils placed several feet apart. Simplified schematic of the wireless energy transfer system in free space. Click to enlarge.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Automatic design of stigmergy-based behaviors for robot swarms,” by Muhammad Salman, David Garzón Ramos, and Mauro Birattari, is published in the journal Communications Engineering. NRL did some interesting stuff with Nexi robots from MIT and made their own videos. MIT ] Lex Fridman interviews Marc Raibert. [ Cool, right?

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MARCH 8, 2023

But connecting them all by coaxial cable to control and readout electronics, which work at room temperature, would be impossible. Instead of connecting each transistor to its neighbor with a metal interconnect, they had them share the quantum well. Instead the MIT team designed a terahertz “backscatter” system.

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JANUARY 27, 2022

The MIT electrical engineering and computer science professor’s positive thinking has led to new ways to improve tried-and-true techniques in the field of information theory. She liked working on creative projects and mathematics, so she decided to study math and literature at MIT. She returned to MIT as a faculty member in 2000.

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MAY 14, 2020

These GEMINA teams are working to develop tools for the advanced reactors of tomorrow to improve operations and lower maintenance costs by designing more autonomous, and efficient processes. Advanced reactors must be designed to be financially competitive with fossil fuel power plants to gain a foothold in future energy markets.

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JANUARY 12, 2024

It can also help you interact with other connected devices or take care of hassles. MIT ] Meet DJI’s first delivery drone—FlyCart 30. Kepler Exploration ] Introducing the new Ballie, your true AI companion. With more advanced intelligence, Ballie can come right to you and project visuals on your walls.

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AUGUST 3, 2014

The design provides for two options: self-propelled or barge-mounted floating NPPs [e.g., They might be connected to coastal infrastructure or float next to consumer. OKBM has participated in realization of reactor plant (RP) designs for nuclear ships since 1954.). New design for floating NPPs. the Lomonosov].

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JANUARY 8, 2024

After graduating in 1985 with bachelor’s degrees in physics and mathematics, she headed to MIT as a graduate student with the goal of pursuing a career in medical engineering. Connected on one side is a flexible fiber bundle, just 1 mm in diameter, with a light source and a digital CCD camera inside.

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JUNE 20, 2023

Bob Kahn: I got my PhD from Princeton in 1964 and took a job as an assistant professor at MIT in the electrical engineering department. At around the same time, Len (Leonard) Kleinrock was doing theoretical work on queuing networks at MIT. Licklider who came to ARPA from BBN (and MIT before that). I was there for a few years.

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JUNE 12, 2012

The contract is worth approximately $8 million in funds to Amyris, conditioned on meeting certain technical milestones in connection with the DARPA’s Living Foundries research program, announced in 2011. 3,628,291 to MIT. 2,260,237 to MIT. Renewable fuels and chemicals company Amyris, Inc. Craig Venter Institute, Inc (JCVI).

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Veröffentlichung bitte mit Bildrechte-Hinweis. bk World designed Qubes, which it defines as modular, modular, transportable room elements that can be combined in a number of ways to meet a wide variety of space requirements on site. . Credit: bk World Copyright: bk World Holding GmbH / Weiterer Text über ots und www.presseportal.de/nr/160216

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MAY 13, 2022

At SMSC she was responsible for integrated circuit design, validation, and product engineering of silicon chips used in PCs. She was one of the architects for the organization’s data privacy and security initiative, and helped develop its Digital Standard framework of product testing criteria for connected products and services.

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JULY 17, 2019

The car manufacturer supplied data from more than 18,500 trips taken by employees and their family members operating similar Volvo vehicles within the designated analysis area. Zhu’s co-authors are Jeffrey Gonder, who manages his group, and three researchers from Volvo Cars. 2019.2919537.

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MAY 24, 2022

So, researchers are brainstorming ideas for foiling cyberattacks on such devices that exploit security weak points in their wireless power or Internet connections. A thermophotovoltaic (TPV) cell developed by engineers at MIT has eclipsed the 40-percent-efficiency mark. But the tide looks to be turning. Rats are irrepressible.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Utilizing Microsoft technologies such as Kinect, the interactive systems integrated into the design of the vehicle display important, highly personalized information on the side window when the driver approaches the car. And like any human-to-human connection, they have an emotional effect on people. They build bonds with them.

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JANUARY 10, 2013

By connecting cars and trucks to wireless networks, and giving unheard-of access to vehicle data, entirely new application categories and hardware modules can be explored—safety, energy efficiency, sharing, health; the list goes on. The read-only system is designed to keep everything isolated from the vehicle control systems.

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JULY 31, 2015

TRANSNET project teams will design and test new network optimization approaches, coupled with novel transportation and mobility simulations, to improve the energy efficiency of personal transportation. Project teams will each design a system model that dynamically simulates an urban transportation network and its energy use.

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JUNE 25, 2012

XL Hybrids’ hybrid electric powertrain is a low-cost, low-risk, bolt-on, post-transmission parallel hybrid technology designed for Class 1–3 commercial vehicles that integrates seamlessly with the conventional internal combustion engine and transmission. Our hybrid controller connects to the CAN; our controller is read-only.

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JULY 22, 2023

The system is essentially being designed alongside the schools that are using it.” The teachers “say they can tell the platform was designed by an educator,” she adds. STEM at the root Ganguly says she was inspired to help reform STEM education when she was a graduate student at MIT.

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Ultimately, the lab will create an “innovation network” connecting Ford’s Advanced Design Studio in Irvine, Calif., and Ford employees working with connectivity platform partner Microsoft Corp. in Redmond, Wash. —Paul Mascarenas, Ford chief technical officer and vice president of Research and Innovation.

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APRIL 8, 2022

PneuBots is a modular soft robotics construction kit consisting of seven types of self-foldable segments with high tensile strength, three types of pneumatic connectors and splitters, and a custom-designed box. This study aims to investigate the influence of robot eye design on users’ trustworthiness perception. [ PneuBots ].

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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

When researchers Xinyue Liu and Siyuan Rao first began their collaboration at MIT, they treated this question literally. Liu is currently working on an interface, such as a patch, between the hydrogel and organs that would enable connections that the current cuff design doesn’t allow.

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JULY 19, 2011

City Safety is designed to help a driver avoid rear-ending another vehicle in slow-moving, heavy traffic. It’s not designed to work at speeds faster than 19 mph. There is an extensive body of work on connected vehicle research, and some background is required before coming back to Ford. US DOT Connected Vehicles Research.

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Researchers at MIT have developed a new bicycle rear wheel—the Copenhagen Wheel —that can capture energy from braking and deliver the power back to provide a boost. A close-up of the Copenhagen Wheel, from MIT’s SENSEable City Lab. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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JANUARY 4, 2018

Based in Palo Alto, CA, and Pittsburgh, PA, Aurora designs and builds self-driving technology, partnering with automakers to integrate, pilot and deploy advanced self-driving platforms into vehicles. He has a PhD in Robotics from MIT. Drew Bagnell, Co-founder & Chief Technical Officer.

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WiTricity, the MIT spin-off commercializing strongly coupled magnetic resonance wireless charging technology for EVs as well as consumer devices, industrial, medical and military applications ( earlier post ), has work underway to deliver wireless charging systems capable of delivering 10s of kilowatts for plug-ins, compared to the current 3.3

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JULY 2, 2012

Conventional automobiles of today are partly electric in their own way, with most systems in the vehicle having electrical and electronic connections for better functionality. Not all components and systems designed for the present 12V power-net can be used in the proposed 48V power-net.

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JUNE 29, 2023

Torres Quevedo’s design for the Whirlpool Aero Car, which offers a thrilling ride over Niagara River, debuted in 1916. The cable car is suspended over a dramatic gorge on the Niagara River on six interlocking steel cables, connecting two points along the shore half a kilometer apart. It is still in operation today.

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JUNE 28, 2023

I was interested in the design and operation of airplanes and spacecraft.” Although it was designed for a life of 18 months, the mission operated successfully for 16 years. Mildred Dresselhaus worked at MIT, which she joined in 1960 as a researcher in its Lincoln Laboratory Solid State Division, in Lexington, Mass.

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The DIGIT touch sensor is based on the GelSight style of sensor, which was first conceptualized at MIT over a decade ago. For this to work, the sheet doesn't have to be directly connected to said magnetometer. DIGIT is open source, so you can make one on your own, but that's a hassle.

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JUNE 29, 2023

Torres Quevedo’s design for the Whirlpool Aero Car, which offers a thrilling ride over Niagara River, debuted in 1916. The cable car is suspended over a dramatic gorge on the Niagara River on six interlocking steel cables, connecting two points along the shore half a kilometer apart. It is still in operation today.

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