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FEBRUARY 2, 2012

A Stanford University research team is designing a high-efficiency wireless charging system using magnetic resonance coupling ( earlier post ) to wirelessly transmit large electric currents between metal coils placed several feet apart. Simplified schematic of the wireless energy transfer system in free space. Click to enlarge.

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MAY 14, 2020

These GEMINA teams are working to develop tools for the advanced reactors of tomorrow to improve operations and lower maintenance costs by designing more autonomous, and efficient processes. Advanced reactors must be designed to be financially competitive with fossil fuel power plants to gain a foothold in future energy markets.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2024

In order to interact with and manipulate their environments, most legged robots are equipped with a dedicated robot arm, which means additional mass and mechanical complexity compared to standard legged robots. NRL did some interesting stuff with Nexi robots from MIT and made their own videos. Pedipulate ] I learned a new word today!

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NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Discover how we put our expertise in robotics research to use designing, testing, and deploying a warehouse robot. Each module of the platform consists of two legs designed to function as a two-legged robot, which is able to walk on a metal pipe using electromagnetic feet. But how did we get there? VISTEC ] Thanks Poramate! UPenn ]

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JUNE 10, 2022

Paper ] The compliance and conformability of soft robots provide inherent advantages when working around delicate objects or in unstructured environments. Ishikawa Lab ] We present hybrid adhesive end-effectors for bimanual handling of deformable objects. iRobot ] How Wing designed its hybrid drone for last mile delivery.

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JULY 18, 2015

Findings by MIT researchers could help advance the commercialization of supercritical water technology for the desulfurization and upgrading of high-sulfur crude oil into high-value, cleaner fuels such as gasoline without using hydrogen—a major change in refining technology that would reduce costs, energy use, and CO 2 emissions.

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JULY 18, 2011

Researchers at MIT, led by Prof. Ceder leads the CEDER (Computational and Experimental Design of Emerging materials Research group) at MIT, and has been pushing for the realization of the “Materials Genome” project to bring advanced automated computing environments coupled to databases to materials design.

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JUNE 26, 2010

Natural gas will play a leading role in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions over the next several decades, largely by replacing older, inefficient coal plants with highly efficient combined-cycle gas generation, according to a major new interim report out from MIT. The study found that there are significant global supplies of conventional gas.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2021

YouTube ] Scientists from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), in the ever-present quest to get machines to replicate human abilities, created a framework that's more scaled up: a system that can reorient over two thousand different objects, with the robotic hand facing both upwards and downwards.

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JUNE 10, 2011

” The MIT report said that natural gas should be seen as a “ bridge ” to a low-carbon regime, rather than as the ultimate long-term solution itself. MIT: The Future of Natural Gas. Separately, the International Energy Agency (IEA) released its own report exploring the potential for a “golden age” of gas. Source: IEA.

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JULY 15, 2020

FLECCS project teams will work to develop carbon capture and storage (CCS) processes that better enable technologies, such as natural gas power generators, to be responsive to grid conditions in a high variable renewable energy (VRE) penetration environment. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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OCTOBER 29, 2021

DOFEC ] Engineering a robot to perform a variety of tasks in practically any environment requires rock-solid hardware that's seamlessly integrated with software systems. Agility engineers make this possible by engineering and designing Digit as an integrated system, then testing it in simulation before the robot's ever built.

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JUNE 16, 2023

The Mori3 is geared towards difficult-to-reach environments where the task isn’t always known ahead of time, such as outer space. MIT ] The next frontier of technology is here. With innovation, safety, and efficiency in mind, Torc Robotics has engineered autonomous vehicles that are revolutionizing our present and future.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2022

In December of 2021 at the mock lunar surface environment in JAXA’s Sagamihara Campus, the GITAI lunar robotic rover R1 conducted numerous tasks and mobility operations, successfully completing all planned tests. This is cool looking, but I'd need to know more about how this system can deal with an actual lunar environment, right?

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APRIL 15, 2022

Tokyo Tech ] MIT engineers have developed a telerobotic system to help surgeons quickly and remotely treat patients experiencing a stroke or aneurysm. MIT ] For LOVOT, a new robot accessory that you never knew you (or anyone) needed. MIT ] For LOVOT, a new robot accessory that you never knew you (or anyone) needed.

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JULY 16, 2021

In this work, we propose a novel bug algorithm named ‘Sniffy Bug’, which allows a fully autonomous swarm of gas-seeking nano quadcopters to localize a gas source in an unknown, cluttered and GPS-denied environments. We present a novel samara-inspired autorotating craft that is capable of autorotating and diving. MIT CSAIL ].

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MAY 31, 2017

First announced in 2014, CSRC Next ( earlier post ) will direct $35 million through 2021 towards research designed to support a safe transition to the future of mobility. Another, with MIT, modelled in-vehicle voice command systems and driver behavior.

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JANUARY 13, 2011

The MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) has released a report on the proceedings—and papers that informed those proceedings—of the 8 April 2010 symposium on The Electrification of the Transportation System: Issues and Opportunities. The symposium was sponsored by the MIT Energy Initiative, together with Ormat, Hess, Cummins and Entergy.

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JUNE 28, 2023

I was interested in the design and operation of airplanes and spacecraft.” People were really interested in clean air and clean water, so I decided there would always be interest in the environment,” Crawford says. You study many areas in civil engineering, including structures, soils, transportation, and the environment,” she says.

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MAY 15, 2010

An MIT-led team has designed an airplane that is estimated to use 70% less fuel than current planes while also reducing noise and emission of NO x. The design was one of two that the team, led by faculty from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, presented to NASA last month as part of a $2.1 Click to enlarge.

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JANUARY 10, 2013

Following on the launch of its first software developer program ( earlier post ), Ford is now turning its attention to the growing trend in hardware hacking by transforming vehicles into an experimental development environment. The read-only system is designed to keep everything isolated from the vehicle control systems.

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MAY 19, 2023

Reflecting on his career, Cerf said “the most magical thing that came out of the Internet is the collection of people that came together to design, build, and get the Internet to work.” It’s human frailty being replicated in the online environment. I’m not surprised this is happening. The hard part is figuring out what to do about it.”

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FEBRUARY 19, 2016

O'Malley’s team also included scientists from PNNL, DOE JGI, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and Harper Adams University. —Scott Baker, EMSL’s science theme lead for Biosystem Dynamics and Design. O’Malley compared this effort to re-assembling a map from its pieces, only without seeing the complete picture.

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JANUARY 17, 2011

A recent white paper by Leslie Bromberg of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center and Wai K. It is a high octane fuel with combustion characteristics that allow engines specifically designed for methanol fuel to match the best efficiencies of diesels while meeting current pollutant emission regulations. It is a safe fuel.

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4, 1921 Birthplace Baku, Azerbaijan Height 178 cm Family Wife, Fay; children, Stella and Norman Education BSEE, University of Tehran, 1942; MSEE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1946; PhD, Columbia University, 1949 First job Design and analysis of defense systems, International Electronics Corp., Zadeh Date of Birth Feb. studies there.

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APRIL 22, 2011

Therefore, the PHEV scenarios presented in this work would decrease CO 2 emissions by over half regardless of when they are charged. Tammy Thompson, (now at MIT), lead author. for the night, convenience and battery scenarios respectively. —Thompson et al. Tammy M Thompson et al.

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APRIL 6, 2009

Furthermore, these NPMCs may also present opportunities for ORR in direct alcohol, formic acid, and alkaline fuel cells. Gasteiger of MIT and M. either related to electrode design or to the catalyst itself. either related to electrode design or to the catalyst itself. Lefèvre et al.

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JULY 19, 2011

City Safety is designed to help a driver avoid rear-ending another vehicle in slow-moving, heavy traffic. It’s not designed to work at speeds faster than 19 mph. Connected vehicle mobility applications provide a connected, data-rich travel environment. or take pre-emptive actions to avoid and mitigate crashes.

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APRIL 16, 2023

These interviews present a wonderful opportunity to learn more about Sutherland’s life in computing, in his own words. from MIT in 1963. For Sutherland, engineering design has a strong aesthetic dimension. Adding to Sutherland’s excitement about MIT was the fact that Claude Shannon had moved there. The reason?

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MAY 17, 2024

In today’s edition of Video Friday, we bring you a dozen of the most interesting projects presented at the conference. However, these robots must perform their tasks dexterously and safely in shared human environments, especially when handling dangerous tools such as kitchen knives.

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MARCH 11, 2023

If too much or too little electricity is present in the power grid, the network can suddenly become unbalanced. Traditionally, the electricity business combined several discrete services, including some designed to meet demand and others designed to stabilize the network. Advocates believe that V2G can help pay for EV batteries.

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MARCH 10, 2023

Agilicious is a co-designed hardware and software framework tailored to autonomous, agile quadrotor flight, which has been developed and used since 2016 at the Robotics and Perception Group of the University of Zurich. USC Viterbi ] We present a sim-to-real learning-based approach for real-world humanoid locomotion.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2021

Our lab, the Responsive Environments Group at MIT, has been working for well over a decade on embedding distributed sensor networks into flexible substrates. As the ISS orbits Earth, and the local space environment changes, we'll be triggering our sensors with known excitations to measure how their sensitivity varies over time.

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APRIL 28, 2023

Looking to give robots a more nimble, human-like touch MIT engineers have now developed a gripper that grasps by reflex. MIT ] Roboticists at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart have developed a jellyfish-inspired underwater robot with which they hope one day to collect waste from the bottom of the ocean.

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APRIL 29, 2009

On 20 April, the opening day of the SAE 2009 World Congress, the AVL Technology Leadership Theater presented a forum on “Green Mobility—The Long View”. the session counted among its panelists: Professor John Heywood, Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Sloan Auto Laboratory at MIT. Dr. Luca Guala, Systemica.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Synteris’ technology would substantially improve the design, manufacturability, and function of power modules used in electric vehicles, aircraft, and other applications. PCI) will demonstrate a fundamentally new solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) architecture that permits a power dense, lightweight design ideal for transportation applications.

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AUGUST 20, 2021

Constant Gardener ] via [ RobotStart ] Engineers at MIT and Shanghai Jiao Tong University have designed a soft, lightweight, and potentially low-cost neuroprosthetic hand. This paper proposes the design of a robotic gripper motivated by the bin-picking problem, where a variety of objects need to be picked from cluttered bins.

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