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11 Intriguing Engineering Milestones to Look for in 2023

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One will provide Internet to rural Peru, two will service airplanes and cruise liners, and the final satellite’s use is yet to be disclosed. The first power plant using NuScale’s technology is set to start generating electricity in 2029 at the Idaho National Laboratory, as part of the Carbon Free Power Project.

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GM Creates New South America Regional Organization

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GM South America includes GM’s existing sales and manufacturing operations in Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela as well as sales activities in those countries and Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay. GM South America currently has 29,000 employees.

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Video Friday: Modular Polygons

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EPFL ] This video details the creation of the Dingo, a low-cost robot quadruped designed and built by Alexander Calvert and Nathan Ferguson as a capstone engineering project for the bachelor of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering at Monash University. Total cost is about $1,300 AUD. The full bill of materials can be found on GitHub.

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JATO: global vehicle sales fall by 39% in March; electrified vehicles up to 17.4% new registration market share in Europe

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This is in part due to the collapse of the Italian and French markets, on which small cars are heavily reliant for sales—in 2019, 38% of A and B segment registrations in Europe occurred in Italy and France. As expected, all segments across Europe were impacted negatively by mandatory lockdowns.

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MrBeast’s #TeamTrees campaign planted over 24 million trees

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MrBeast, a popular YouTube creator whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, launched the #TeamTrees charity campaign with Mark Rober, another creator who’s also a former NASA engineer. Locations include the Andes Mountains in Peru and the mangrove forests of Brazil, located near the Atlantic Ocean.

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Bionic Hand Gives Amputees Sense of Touch

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I loved everything about engineering, programming, and building things," he says. "I I wanted to figure out a way to combine my interests in both engineering and medicine.". Akhtar and Nguyen flew to Quito, Ecuador, to test their product on Juan Suquillo, who lost his left hand during a 1979 border war between Ecuador and Peru.

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This Startup Is Using AI to Help Keep Store Shelves Stocked

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The situation is the result of supply-chain issues caused in part by the COVID-19 pandemic. Wisy currently has 16 employees, who work in Costa Rica, Panama, Peru, the Philippines, and the United States. Unreliable Cloud Services Chen, a software engineer, founded her first company, Alcenit , in 2006.

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