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Video Friday: TurtleBot 4

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DARPA SubT ] A new control system, designed by researchers in MIT's Improbable AI Lab and demonstrated using MIT's robotic mini cheetah, enables four-legged robots to traverse across uneven terrain in real-time. [ NASA ] What if you could have 100x more information about your industrial sites? SofTech-Rehab ].

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Researchers report high thermoelectric performance for indium-doped tin telluride; waste heat recovery applications

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Researchers at the University of Houston’s physics department and the Texas Center for Superconductivity, MIT and Boston College have found that indium-doped tin telluride (SnTe) shows high thermoelectric performance, with a peak figure of merit (ZT) of ?1.1 atom % In-doped SnTe at about 873 K (600 ° C).

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Video Friday: Spot Levels Up

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This is an example of bridging the conversational nature of Chat GPT and other LLMs to generate real-world physical action. They set their record with a chain of 334 self-designed robots. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.

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ARPA-E awards $175M to 68 novel clean energy OPEN 2021 projects

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Synteris’ technology would substantially improve the design, manufacturability, and function of power modules used in electric vehicles, aircraft, and other applications. PCI) will demonstrate a fundamentally new solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) architecture that permits a power dense, lightweight design ideal for transportation applications.

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GMZ-led project tracking to deliver vehicular thermoelectric generators for Bradley Fighting Vehicle, Honda Accord

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GMZ Energy and its partners are on track to deliver a 1 kW thermoelectric generator (TEG) for the Bradley Fighting Vehicle as well as to design and to integrate a light-duty vehicle TEG into a Honda Accord as part of a DOE-funded project. In June, GMZ successfully generated 270 watts from a TEG as part of $1.5-million Earlier post.).

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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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Energy Plant Design The University of California, Los Angeles, will re-engineer. The pine tree developed for this project is designed both to. University of Houston. for High Power Wind Generators The University of Houston will develop a new, low-cost. This metal composite magnet design contains. This will allow a.

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