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NEVS and AutoX to collaborate on large-scale RoboTaxi deployment in Europe

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The partnership is directed towards a target of deploying the first large-scale RoboTaxi pilots in Europe by the end of 2020, demonstrating and evaluating technology and design of a new vehicle type that will shape mobility for a more sustainable future. Robotaxi vehicle concept. AutoX was founded in 2016 by Jianxiong Xiao (a.k.a.

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Founder of MIT’s Microsystems Technology Labs Dies at 88

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Founder of MIT's Microsystems Technology Labs. Penfield's academic career at MIT spanned 45 years. He was instrumental in increasing the school's involvement in silicon integrated circuit design. After stepping down, he went back to teaching electrical engineering until he retired in 2005. Paul Penfield. Ferdo Ivanek.

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Lotfi Zadeh and the Birth of Fuzzy Logic

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His career goal, for as long as he can remember, was to be an engineering professor. Rather, he thought of scientific and engineering research as a type of religion, practiced at universities. Zadeh received an electrical engineering degree from the University of Tehran in 1942. Zadeh Date of Birth Feb. Kalman in 1972.

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DOE to award more than $27M to 12 plastics recycling R&D projects

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $27 million in funding for 12 projects that will support the development of advanced plastics recycling technologies and new plastics that are recyclable-by-design. Partners include BASF, MIT, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

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3D Printed Solid-State Battery Rivals Lithium-Ion

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Like many solid-state designs, Sakuu's battery cell involves a lithium-metal anode, as well as a ceramic electrolyte that separates the anode and cathode. The company's 3D-printing platform is based on the binder jet printing process developed by MIT. The startup, based in San Jose, Calif.,

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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Audi Volkswagen-owned company exploring PHEVs Metroproject Quattro Sub-compact PHEV Concept Car shown October 2007; PHEV of A1 Sportback under consideration Bright Automotive For-profit spin off from Rocky Mountain Institute designing lightweight PHEVs, successor to RMIs 1990s "Hypercar" concept. See Chevy Volt for latest.

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