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nuTonomy to test its self-driving cars on specific public roads in Boston

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Flynn Marine Park in the Seaport section of the city. The company’s autonomous and robotics technology system grew out of research conducted in MIT labs run by nuTonomy co-founders Karl Iagnemma and Emilio Frazzoli. nuTonomy will begin testing its self-driving Renault Zoe electric vehicle before the end of the year in the Raymond L.

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IEEE Celebrates Engineering Pioneers and Emerging Technologies

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Because sea levels and temperatures are rising, more than 80 percent of marine life is migrating toward the Earth’s poles and away from warmer water, he said. It’s human frailty being replicated in the online environment. Coco said one of the biggest challenges facilities such as his are facing is finding enough food for their animals.

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DOE to award $35M to 24 projects to support early-stage, innovative technologies and solutions in advanced manufacturing

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AK Steel Corporation. AK Steel Corporation’s Research & Innovation Center will conduct alloy design, lab validation, manufacture, and testing of novel low density steels that possess mechanical properties exhibited by currently available advanced high strength steels. Boston Electrometallurgical Corporation. Organization.

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Should the Cobalt for EVs Come From the Congo or the Seafloor?

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But the question of whether obtaining cobalt and other valuable metals from the ocean floor would help or hurt the environment overall is, in fact, quite complicated. Would having another large source available—the deep Pacific—help corporate buyers pressure Congolese mining companies to clean up their act?

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