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CARB awards $20M in Cap-and-Trade funding to zero-emission transportation technology demos, H2 ferry, BEV locomotive

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The projects are part of California Climate Investments, a statewide program that puts billions of Cap-and-Trade dollars to work reducing greenhouse gas emissions, strengthening the economy and improving public health and the environment—particularly in disadvantaged communities. million; Grantee: The Los Angeles Harbor Department).

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Video Friday: Grip Anything

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IEEE CASE 2022 : 20 August–24 August 2022, MEXICO CITY CLAWAR 2022 : 12 September–14 September 2022, AZORES, PORTUGAL ANA Avatar XPRIZE Finals : 4 November–5 November 2022, LOS ANGELES CoRL 2022 : 14 December–18 December 2022, AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND Enjoy today's videos! University of Leeds ] Thanks Chengxu! Clearpath ].

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NREL analysis of Proterra electric bus demo finds average fuel economy nearly 4x that of CNG baseline buses

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NREL is also very interested in performing chassis dynamometer testing of the BEBs and the CNG buses and hopes to precisely quantify both energy and emissions savings in a controlled environment on a variety of drive cycles. Foothill Transit serves a 327-square-mile area covering the San Gabriel and Pomona Valley region of Los Angeles County.

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Greenius Goes All AB 811 Over Green Task Force

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Mark Greninger, the Geographic Information Officer for Los Angeles County got me very excited with his presentation following mine because he’s the guy responsible for the new, knock-your-socks off L.A. You need to make the environment the priority in Redondo Beach. County Solar Map. What a brilliant job he has done -.

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The Do-or-Die Moments That Determined the Fate of the Internet

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Several of these events, such as the first public demo of the ARPANET in 1972, or the mid-1980s conferences now known as Interop, alerted experts to new technologies, and, in some cases, altered the balance between competing approaches. The first node of the ARPANET was installed at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1969.

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Video Friday: Loona

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IROS 2022 : 23–27 October 2022, KYOTO, JAPAN ANA Avatar XPRIZE Finals : 4–5 November 2022, LOS ANGELES CoRL 2022 : 14–18 December 2022, AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND. In this work, we showcase a novel framework for modifying previously generated trajectories of robotic manipulators in highly detailed and dynamic collision environments.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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The Open Environment and How It Changed PARC started with a small nucleus—perhaps fewer than 20 people. And in the Xerox environment in ’76, all of a sudden you could create things and make lots of them.” and is currently manager of programming environments at Sun Microsystems in Mountain View. “Or

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