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Video Friday: Beyond the Limit

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IEEE SSRR 2023 : 13–15 November 2023, FUKUSHIMA, JAPAN Humanoids 2023 : 12–14 December 2023, AUSTIN, TEXAS, USA Cybathlon Challenges : 02 February 2024, ZURICH, SWITZERLAND Eurobot Open 2024 : 8–11 May 2024, LA ROCHE-SUR-YON, FRANCE Enjoy today’s videos! We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months.

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China Says It's Closing in on Thorium Nuclear Reactor

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Government researchers there unveiled a design for a commercial molten salt reactor (MSR) that uses. MSRs are attractive for arid regions because instead of the water used by conventional uranium reactors, MSRs use molten fluoride salts to cool their cores. But even though France, India, Japan, Norway, and the U.S.

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This Fusion Reactor Is Held Together With Tape

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Commonwealth Fusion Systems says this spool of high-temperature superconducting tape is key to the startup’s smaller, cheaper tokamak design. Gretchen Ertl/CFS/MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center In September 2021, Commonwealth Fusion Systems tested the first of its reactor’s D-shaped toroidal field magnets.

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The Essential Vannevar Bush

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Born in 1890 in Massachusetts, he came to prominence as the nation’s top designer of computers while at MIT In the 1930s. One of his favorites, from an essay, he penned in 1932 about the design and engineering of fabrics and clothing, was the duck: “I have always envied the duck. He can dive under water and come up dry.

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Lotfi Zadeh and the Birth of Fuzzy Logic

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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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The New Supersonic Boom

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They're preparing prototypes for flight and they've got designs for full-blown airliners capable of carrying scores of passengers. Shortly afterward, the federal government issued a contract to Boeing, which had prevailed over Lockheed and others in a design competition, to develop such a plane. supersonic airliner.

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CleanFUEL USA partners with Freightliner on new 8.0L propane LPI medium-duty engine

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First versions of the engine chassis will be designed for use in urban delivery trucks and school buses. Researchers at MIT had earlier demonstrated the ability to make biopropane (LPG from corn or sugarcane) using a supercritical water process, and created a startup (C3 BioEnergy) in 2007 that attempted to commercialize the technology.

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