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ARPA-E to award $14.5M to 5 projects to reduce energy use for transportation

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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. Georgia Tech Research Corporation. The Connected Traveler: A Framework to Reduce Energy Use in Transportation. TRANSNET Awards.

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

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He came up with a mechanical barrier system that attaches to the hood and connects to the car's electronic control unit. The incoming freshman at MIT won $600. I'm a very competitive person," he says, "so I was motivated to try and disprove these articles and actually build this device.". A SELF-REPLICATING 3D PRINTER.

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Q&A: Inside DARPA’s Subterranean Challenge

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Team CoSTAR, a collaboration between NASA’s JPL, MIT, Caltech, KAIST, and LTU, inspects the communications-node deployment system on their Husky wheeled robots [top]. Shipping containers connected end-to-end formed complex networks, and many of them were carefully sculpted and decorated to resemble mining tunnels and natural caves.

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Video Friday: Turkey Sandwich

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A single torus wheel is made of an elastic elongated coil spring in which the two ends of the coil connected each other and is driven by a piezoelectric actuator (stator) that can generate 2-degrees-of-freedom (axial and angular) motions. Georgia Tech ] Thanks, Jason! How do you program a personality? Paper ] Thanks, Ayato!

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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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Thermal Fuel: HybriSol Hybrid nanostructures for high-energy-density solar thermal fuels Using innovative nanomaterials, MIT will develop a thermal. energy storage MIT and Boston College will develop phase change materials. Climate Control System (ATB) MIT will develop advanced adsorption-based hot and cold. of Technology.

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Canoo Pickup, Kia EV6, Honda and Mini EV Plans: EV Week in Review – Mar 9-15

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BMW CEO Officer Oliver Zipse is set to announce the plan alongside its annual report on March 17, the person said. The tie-up with Singapore-based SolidEnergy Systems, which was founded by MIT grad Qichao Hu, is focused on new battery chemistry to reduce the size of the batteries while increasing an EV’s range. In a letter to U.S.

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