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

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Underride car crashes are among the most deadly accidents in Turkey, according to a report by the country's. zmit, Turkey, is set to study medicine this semester at. 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.

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Video Friday: Turkey Sandwich

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Now spend 10 minutes watching a telepresence robot assemble a turkey sandwich. 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.

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