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ITER beginning assembly of fusion reactor tokamak

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ITER , the world’s largest international scientific collaboration, is beginning assembly of the fusion reactor tokamak that will include 12 different essential hardware systems provided by US ITER, which is managed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The 1250-ton cyrostat base is positioned over the ITER tokamak pit for installation.

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General Fusion and UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) announce collaborative agreement to advance commercial fusion energy

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General Fusion and the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) kicked off projects to advance the commercialization of magnetized target fusion energy as part of a collaborative agreement. The results will hone the design of General Fusion’s demonstration machine being built at the Culham Campus, part of the UK fusion cluster.

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Opinion: How India can move from Level 2 to Level 3 autonomy of cars and beyond – ET Auto

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Moving from Level 2 to 3 To move from Level 2 to Level 3 cars, India needs to embrace advanced technologies such as sensor fusion, AI, ML, and improved connectivity. Sensor fusion combines data from various sensors like Radar and LiDAR to create a comprehensive view of the vehicle’s surroundings.

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Ricardo white paper outlines needed developments to realize autonomous driving

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The future self-driving vehicle value chain will be driven by software feature sets, complex algorithms for sensor fusion and motion controls, low system costs, and high performance hardware. By 2025, vehicles will operate with fully centralized systems that incorporate sensor fusion to deliver more features with fewer components (e.g.,

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Fine-Tuning the Factory: Simulation App Helps Optimize Additive Manufacturing Facility

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One promising way to meet modern industrial challenges is by using additive manufacturing (AM) processes, such as powder bed fusion and other emerging techniques. Adopting AM is not just about installing new equipment. By contrast, the metal powder bed fusion process (Ref.

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CMU demo’ing Autonomous SRX in Washington this week

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In 2007, Carnegie Mellon’s then state-of-the-art driverless car, BOSS, took home the $2-million grand prize in the DARPA Urban Challenge, which pitted the leading autonomous vehicles in the world against one another in a challenging, urban environment. The tracking system comprises two basic layers: the sensor and the fusion layer.

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MSU researchers fabricate synthetic protein that streamlines carbon fixing machinery of cyanobacteria; potential boost for biofuels

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The carboxysome, the cyanobacterial BMC for CO 2 fixation, has attracted significant attention as a target for installation into chloroplasts and serves as the foundation for introducing other types of BMCs into plants. This installation should help plants’ ability to fix carbon dioxide. —Cheryl Kerfeld. —Cheryl Kerfeld.

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