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Volkswagen, BASF present “Science Award Electrochemistry” to Dr. Jennifer Rupp from MIT; solid-state batteries

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The BASF and Volkswagen international “ Science Award Electrochemistry 2017” ( earlier post ) this year goes to Dr. Jennifer Rupp at MIT. Her research focuses on material and electrode designs for solid-state batteries. The special prize for applied research is worth €40,000.

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This Rice University Professor Developed Cancer-Detection Technology

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Her team created a suite of low-cost medical devices, the NEST360 newborn tool kit, to improve neonatal health in sub-Saharan Africa. After graduating in 1985 with bachelor’s degrees in physics and mathematics, she headed to MIT as a graduate student with the goal of pursuing a career in medical engineering.

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Video Friday: TurtleBot 4

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Our small development kit (housing an FPGA) sat on top of the robot dog guides Hopper, using Opteran See to provide 360 degrees of stabilised vision, and Opteran Sense to sense objects and avoid collisions. Brought to you by iRobot (providing the base in the form of the new Create 3), Clearpath, and Open Robotics.

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Planning for and transforming future urban infrastructure for sustainable mobility

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Global infrastructure company Ferrovial and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) just signed a five-year agreement, with Ferrovial joining the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Energy Initiative (MITEI) to support a range of research projects on transforming critical urban infrastructures of the future. Ferrovial and MIT.

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Wireless charging company WiTricity scaling up EV charging capability as well as itself

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WiTricity, the MIT spin-off commercializing strongly coupled magnetic resonance wireless charging technology for EVs as well as consumer devices, industrial, medical and military applications ( earlier post ), has work underway to deliver wireless charging systems capable of delivering 10s of kilowatts for plug-ins, compared to the current 3.3

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Video Friday: Lunar Rover

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MIT CSAIL ] I'm not sure I've seen this particular balancing behavior from Digit demonstrated quite so explicitly. Paper ] I really appreciate that iRobot has taken care to design their robots to be repairable by end users with a screwdriver and nothing else. What's normal now was 20x speed back then, just about. [

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DOE to re-fund Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis with $75M for solar fuels R&D

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Success could ultimately drive commercial development of solar-fuel systems designed from inception to be easily deployable almost anywhere. The research program involves eight core projects: Light Capture and Conversion. This project focuses on the discovery and development of semiconducting materials for solar light absorption.

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