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Students Use Their Tech Know-How to Protect the Environment

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According to the Natural Resources Defense Council , climate change contributes to severe weather events such as hurricanes, flooding, and tornadoes, as well as long-term drought and regularly occurring heat events in traditionally moderate climate zones. and its environs. The EPICS contest asked students and faculty at U.S.

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DOE awarding $35M to 11 projects for hydrokinetic turbine development; ARPA-E SHARKS

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Projects will work to reduce the LCOE through multiple approaches, including increasing generation efficiency, increasing rotor area per unit of equivalent mass, lowering operation and maintenance costs, minimizing potential impacts on the surrounding environment, and maximizing system reliability. The University of Michigan.

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New safety test environment for high-speed flywheels for energy storage systems; new high-speed imaging techniques

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The Ricardo-led FlySafe research collaboration—involving a range of leading industrial and academic partners including the University of Brighton’s Centre for Automotive Engineering—has delivered an innovative flywheel safety test environment to enable the development of next-generation flywheel energy storage systems.

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Video Friday: Modular Polygons

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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. The Mori3 is geared towards difficult-to-reach environments where the task isn’t always known ahead of time, such as outer space. Total cost is about $1,300 AUD. (iii) Nature ] Thanks, Bram!

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Video Friday: Uncrewed

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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. In a new article published in Nature, scientists from Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands) and Aix-Marseille University (France) describe how insects detect gravity.

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Video Friday: Little Robot, Big Stairs

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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. Inbiodroid is a startup "dedicated to the development of fully immersive telepresence technologies that create a deeper connection between people and their environment." CLEAR Lab ] Thanks, Zejun!

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Sensor Networks Help Fight Floods and Noise Pollution

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With that challenge, we started looking for data sets that would provide flood information and realized that there were little to no quantitative or real-time flood data available, not just in New York City, but in urban environments around the world," said Silverman. "At At that point, we realized we needed to collect that data ourselves."