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Bionic Hand Gives Amputees Sense of Touch

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Two years later he was accepted into the Medical Scholars Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. To get some advice about how to run the company and possibly win some money, he entered the bionic hand into the Cozad New Venture Challenge at the University of Illinois. The program allows students to earn both an M.D.

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Behind the Wheel, Under the Hood of Rivian's R1T

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Slide the track-mounted Camp Kitchen from the Gear Tunnel’s door, and start cookin’, with a two-burner convection cooktop, a sink with a five-gallon water tank and spray faucet, and a 30-piece cookware set from Snow Peak. It’s a pricey option at $5,000, but may prove a gotta-have for hardy campers and beer-swilling tailgaters alike.

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DOE Awarding $620M for Smart Grid Demonstration and Energy Storage Projects

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Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. Design, build, test, commission, and operate a utility-scale 20 MW flywheel energy storage frequency regulation plant in Chicago, Illinois, and provide frequency regulation services to the grid operator, the PJM Interconnection. Beacon Power 20MW Flywheel Frequency Regulation Plant.

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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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University of Illinois. with Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency into the Saccharinae The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign team will. that produces large quantities of sugar and requires less water. thermoelectric energy converters to recharge the hot and. heating and water purification. Chromatin, Inc.

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