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Largest ever oil spill response exercise on the Baltic Sea being held off the coast of Helsinki, Finland

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This year’s Balex Delta oil spill response exercise, which is held annually under the Convention on the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Baltic Sea Area, is taking place today in the sea area outside Helsinki, Finland. The Finnish Environment Institute SYKE is coordinating the exercise. The most important oil harbors.

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Video Friday: The Coolest Robots

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We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Deep Robotics ] Estimating terrain traversability in off-road environments requires reasoning about complex interaction dynamics between the robot and these terrains. Lite3’s announced price is US $2,900.

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Holtec and Mitsubishi Electric partnering to advance SMR-160 small modular reactor program

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No reliance on on-site or off-site power to shut down the reactor and to reject the decay heat to the environment (hence, Inherently Safe). The containment is a steel structure that will serve to dissipate heat to the environment using passive cooling for a design basis event. Passively cooled for design basis shut down.

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DRIVE C2X presents results of large-scale connected vehicle field testing in Europe

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The operational tests took place in seven test sites in Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain and Sweden. This alert prepares the driver for the impending event so that the driver can already start to slow down the vehicle, if appropriate. In total, more than 200 vehicles drove more than 1.5 million km (932,000 miles).

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Video Friday: Lunar Transport

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We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. ANYbotics ] In this video we present results from the recent field-testing campaign of the DigiForest project at Evo, Finland. at ICRA 2013 , here is video I took of StarlETH, one of ANYmal’s ancestors.