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From Cleaning Offices to Designing EV Charging Stations

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Greta Bekerytė started out cleaning offices and ended up designing electronics for EV charging stations. For her contributions to the field, in 2022 she was selected as one of the Top Women in EV by the organizers of the EV Summit , a leading global e-mobility event. The job involved designing signaling systems on subsea oil wells.

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Video Friday: Humanoid Soccer

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We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. One of the highlights of the 20th anniversary event of Robotnik was the choreography between the professional ballet dancer Sherezade Soriano and the mobile manipulator robot RB-KAIROS+.

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Video Friday: Robot Arms for the ISS

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We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. The robot is designed to carry its own magnet, which it alternately retracts and repels. Here, we introduce an electromagnetically actuated soft robot that can locomote without an external magnetic field.

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Show Off Your Car At the Exploratorium in San Francisco

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Hello DIY'ers, The Exploratorium in the San Francisco is looking for someone who'd like to show off their DIY Electric Car for one night on October 7th as part of our monthly After Dark series. Our October After Dark event is entitled Sol Systems: An Alternative Energy Exploration. The setting will be informal.no 3601 Lyon St.

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Where the President-Elect Candidates Stand on Key Issues

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Two virtual events were held in June and July for members to get to know the four candidates running for 2023 IEEE president-elect. Both events are available on demand on IEEE.tv. Section that is working to incentivize the chapters to add more female speakers at their events. President Ray Liu asked Thomas M.

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Ukrainian Volunteers Use 3D Printers to Save Lives

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Therefore, when it received new information that there was a great shortage of combat application tourniquets (CATs) for the military, in just a few days they had developed a tourniquet design that could be 3D printed, and began to modify it for better performance.

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Road Test: 2022 Hyundai Santa Cruz Limited AWD

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The LED taillights have an attractive design. Coefficient of Drag (C d ) certainly does have an attention getting design. Sliding behind the wheel reveals a curved dash design that has no physical buttons, switches or toggles. In addition, we are often invited to manufacturer events highlighting new vehicles or technology.

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