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Video Friday: Biological End Effectors

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RoboCup 2023 : 4–10 July 2023, BORDEAUX, FRANCE RSS 2023 : 10–14 July 2023, DAEGU, SOUTH KOREA IEEE RO-MAN 2023 : 28–31 August 2023, BUSAN, SOUTH KOREA IROS 2023 : 1–5 October 2023, DETROIT CLAWAR 2023 : 2–4 October 2023, FLORIANOPOLIS, BRAZIL Humanoids 2023 : 12–14 December 2023, AUSTIN, TEXAS Enjoy today’s videos! Even when it’s not hands.

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GM Innovation Challenge launched at four major universities; 3-D printing, augmented reality tools for manufacturing

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The participating institutions are Pennsylvania State University; Georgia Institute of Technology; the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. —Kurt Wiese, vice president of Global Manufacturing Engineering. devices similar to Google Glass) in manufacturing.

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Ford says it is stockpiling batteries for Farley’s electric vehicle scaling operation

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Ford said it is stockpiling batteries to achieve CEO Jim Farley’s recently outlined goals of scaling production of 600,000 electric vehicles produced in just 22 months; a lofty goal for the Detroit-based automaker, which held its Q4 2021 Earnings Call last evening. market, falling second to only Tesla in sales figures for Q4 2021.

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Abandoned History: Oldsmobile's Guidestar Navigation System and Other Cartography (Part VI)

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Sacrificing much, GM spent billions and billions of 1980s dollars on technology and engineering entities at the behest of CEO Roger Smith, who wanted to transform The General into a company more resembling a conglomerate like GE. The high-tech navigation relied on multiple hard disk cartridges rather than multiple map CDs.

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LA-based SMLC to lead new DOE Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute; ~$800M for 5 new hub competitions

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Information Systems Associates; Loman CSI-Consortium/Resource; Makai Ocean engineering; Martin Control Systems; Nila; Nimbis Services; One Cycle Control; Process Systems Enterprise Inc.; Georgia Institute of Technology; Idaho National Laboratory; Jet Propulsion National Laboratory; Lamar U.; Missouri U. Purdue U. .; West Virginia U.

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SMART: working for a systems-based approach to sustainable mobility; Alcoa Foundation support for practical solutions in Beijing and Detroit

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Elements of these solution sets were introduced by SMART in a 2006 article entitled “ New Mobility: The Next Generation of Sustainable Urban Transportation ,” in the Bridge Magazine of the National Academy of Engineers. That problem is really interesting in the context of both Detroit and Beijing, Zielinski observed.

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Study: Reducing Future Transportation CO2 Emissions to Kyoto Protocol Levels Will Require Combination of Vehicle Technology and Smart Growth

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A Georgia Tech City and Regional Planning study on climate change concludes that “smart growth” combined with the use of hybrid vehicle technology could reduce cities’ carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions significantly by 2050. Paul, Minnesota; Cincinnati, Ohio; Grand Rapids, Michigan; Chicago, Illinois; Detroit, Michigan; and Dayton, Ohio.

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