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Video Friday: Ameca Humanoid

Cars That Think

Designed specifically as a platform for development into future robotics technologies, Ameca is the perfect humanoid robot platform for human-robot interaction. The Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the CTU in Prague wishes you a Merry Christmas and much success, health and energy in 2022! [ SDU ] Thanks, Poramate!

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EU Launches 37M Next-Generation Integrated Biorefinery Project

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Dubbed EUROBIOREF (European multilevel integrated biorefinery design for sustainable biomass processing), the project aims to improve cost efficiency by 30%, cut energy use by 30% and reduce feedstock consumption by 10%. Work has begun on a new EU-funded project to improve the performance of Europe’s biorefineries.

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A closer look at graphite—its forms, functions and future in EV batteries

Charged EVs

Graphite is the critical component of all current anode designs. Some advanced designs use a small amount of silicon, which can store more energy. Silicon has some very desirable properties—it stores significant amounts of energy, it’s very conductive, it’s lighter—but there are some challenges with it.

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