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MAY 14, 2020

These advances will lay the groundwork for a future where advanced reactors operate with a staffing plan and fixed O&M costs more competitive with those of other generation sources. Advanced reactors must be designed to be financially competitive with fossil fuel power plants to gain a foothold in future energy markets.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2023

JPL ] Cassie Blue showcases its ability to navigate a moving walkway, a common yet challenging scenario in human environments. It can be also steered to navigate through a cluttered environment with obstacles. The highest altitude achieved in this flight was 20 m. At the time, that was a record for the helicopter. [ That is all.

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MAY 31, 2017

First announced in 2014, CSRC Next ( earlier post ) will direct $35 million through 2021 towards research designed to support a safe transition to the future of mobility. We are excited to continue our safety mission by helping to support a safe evolution to a broader mobility future. —Chuck Gulash, Director of CSRC.

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JANUARY 4, 2017

Solaria Labs , an innovation incubator established in 2015 by Liberty Mutual Insurance, is introducing an open API developer portal that combines public data with proprietary insurance knowledge, helping to inform future products and apps for customers. —Adam L’Italien, vice president, Innovation, Liberty Mutual Insurance.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In a new study, engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder debuted mCLARI, a 2-centimeter-long modular robot that can passively change its shape to squeeze through narrow gaps in multiple directions. Queens University ] Thanks Josh! Different robotic solutions of the future. Evolve, evolve, and evolve again!

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MARCH 15, 2024

Legendary MIT roboticist Daniela Rus has published a new book called The Heart and the Chip: Our Bright Future with Robots. Rus’ experience gives her a deep and nuanced perspective on robotics’ past and future, and we’re able to share a little bit of that with you here. So, drones can be dancers, too.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2021

YouTube ] Scientists from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), in the ever-present quest to get machines to replicate human abilities, created a framework that's more scaled up: a system that can reorient over two thousand different objects, with the robotic hand facing both upwards and downwards.

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JULY 15, 2020

FLECCS project teams will work to develop carbon capture and storage (CCS) processes that better enable technologies, such as natural gas power generators, to be responsive to grid conditions in a high variable renewable energy (VRE) penetration environment. Colorado State University. University of Pittsburgh.

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JUNE 10, 2022

In association with universities, institutes and development companies, we are developing research platforms whose basic technical principles are based on nature. Paper ] The compliance and conformability of soft robots provide inherent advantages when working around delicate objects or in unstructured environments.

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AUGUST 25, 2011

In July, at the Association for Computing Machinery’s MobiSys conference, researchers from MIT and Princeton University took the best-paper award for a system that uses a network of smartphones mounted on car dashboards to collect information about traffic signals and to then tell drivers when slowing down could help them avoid waiting at lights.

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APRIL 21, 2023

Academic outreach is at the very foundation of IHMC’s mission, and needless to say.our entire organization is incredibly grateful to have the opportunity to continually inspire future generations. I’ll provide an overview of robotics at JPL and discuss some open problems that if addressed could further enhance future space robotics. [

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NOVEMBER 20, 2013

The University of Texas at Austin. The University of Texas at Austin along with Ohio State University and Columbia University-Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory will examine what the primary influences are on the development of persistent, massive hydrate accumulations in deep sediments below the seabed.

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JUNE 16, 2023

The Mori3 is geared towards difficult-to-reach environments where the task isn’t always known ahead of time, such as outer space. Researchers led by the University of California, San Diego, have developed a new model that trains four-legged robots to see more clearly in 3D. MIT ] The next frontier of technology is here.

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JANUARY 10, 2013

Following on the launch of its first software developer program ( earlier post ), Ford is now turning its attention to the growing trend in hardware hacking by transforming vehicles into an experimental development environment. —Venkatesh Prasad, senior technical leader of Open Innovation for Ford Research and Innovation.

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OCTOBER 6, 2015

An international team of researchers, led by the University of Cambridge, has estimated that photosynthetic marine cyanobacteria annually produce hundreds of millions of tonnes of hydrocarbons in the oceans. Oil spills cause widespread damage, but some parts of the marine environment recover faster than others. —Lea-Smith et al.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. The University of Illinois will conduct research to develop a composite plastic heat exchanger for a low temperature gas streams common in industry. Colorado State University. Iowa State University. Michigan State University. Temple University. 795,834.

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APRIL 24, 2022

DARPA designed the competition to advance practical robotics in extreme conditions, based around three distinct underground environments: human-made tunnels, the urban underground, and natural caves. A series of three preliminary circuit events would give teams experience with each environment. IEEE Spectrum.

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JUNE 24, 2013

The goal of this new center is to create a collaborative environment and concentration of technical capability to accelerate materials discovery and development, provide opportunities to transition new breakthroughs in advanced materials to industry, and offer training opportunities for young scientists and engineers.

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JULY 10, 2009

Through a recent modeling experiment, a team of NASA-funded researchers have found that future concentrations of carbon dioxide and ozone in the atmosphere and of nitrogen in the soil are likely to have an important but overlooked effect on the cycling of water from sky to land to waterways. Benjamin Felzer, Lehigh University.

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JUNE 4, 2022

Structured VLSI design, now taught in more than 100 universities. And unlike university research laboratories, PARC had one unifying vision: it would develop “the architecture of information.” As for the future impact of PARC research—the sky’s the limit. Colorful weather maps on TV news programs. Laser printers.

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MAY 19, 2023

It’s human frailty being replicated in the online environment. Kavraki , and IEEE Life Fellow Rodney Brooks —also touched on what applications robots could benefit in the future. The IEEE Fellow, a computer science professor at Rice University , in Houston, is the recipient of the IEEE Frances E. Allen Medal.

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MAY 15, 2010

An MIT-led team has designed an airplane that is estimated to use 70% less fuel than current planes while also reducing noise and emission of NO x. Images: MIT/Aurora Flight Sciences. MIT was the only university to lead one of the six US teams that won contracts from NASA in October 2008. Click to enlarge.

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APRIL 21, 2009

The discovery came when MIT researchers Byoungwoo Kang and Gerbrand Ceder found out how to get a common lithium compound to release and take up lithium ions in a matter of seconds. According to Peter Bruce, a chemist at the University of St Andrews, UK, “As far as I know, this is the fastest yet for this material.&# About Gas 2.0

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Foundation for Skydio’s drones can be traced back to Adam’s work on autonomous agile drones at MIT , and after spending a few years at Google working on Project Wing’s delivery drones , Adam cofounded Skydio in 2014. Davide Scaramuzza directs the Robotics and Perception group at the University of Zürich.

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MAY 31, 2016

The more important argument for the future of the Li-ion battery field is whether oxygen oxidation can create extra capacity beyond what is predicted from the transition-metal content alone, as has been argued for several Li-excess materials, such as Li 1.2 O 2 , Li 2 Ru 0.5 O 2 and Li 1.3

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OCTOBER 20, 2022

Most of those components ported quite easily over to the bot’s environment. “All those cool things we showed earlier in the videos were possible in just a few months, thanks to the amazing work we’ve done on Autopilot over the past few years. Some of the components are similar, and some others required more heavy lifting.”

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MARCH 27, 2022

Mag amps thus found many applications in demanding environments, especially military, space, and industrial control. Universal Images Group/Getty Images. Amplistat , CGS Laboratories’ Increductor , Westinghouse’s Cypak (cybernetic package), and Librascope ’s Unidec (universal decision element). During the 1950s, the U.S.

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APRIL 16, 2023

from MIT in 1963. www.youtube.com As an undergraduate engineering student at Carnegie Tech (today’s Carnegie Mellon University), and then as a graduate student at Caltech (before he moved to MIT after one year), Sutherland continued to design and build more advanced light-seeking robots. At MIT, Sutherland met with Wesley A.

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In 1965, Larry Roberts, then at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory , connected one computer in Massachusetts to another in California over a telephone line. Meanwhile, over at BBN, Kahn intended to spend a couple of years in industry so he could return to academia with some real-world experience and ideas for future research. “I 1962 and Ph.D.

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JULY 19, 2011

Connected vehicle mobility applications provide a connected, data-rich travel environment. GHz frequency band reserved using the Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments (WAVE) protocols defined in the IEEE 1609 standard and its subsidiary parts. MIT and smart intersections. These protocols build on the established IEEE 802.11

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In structured environments like factories, this works well enough. RoMan, along with many other robots including home vacuums , drones, and autonomous cars, handles the challenges of semistructured environments through artificial neural networks—a computing approach that loosely mimics the structure of neurons in biological brains.

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APRIL 29, 2009

the session counted among its panelists: Professor John Heywood, Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Sloan Auto Laboratory at MIT. Professor Robert Cervero, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California-Berkeley. Professor Sebastian Thrun, Stanford University. Still, Prof.

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APRIL 25, 2011

Researchers at MIT led by Drs. The two functions are carried out in succession by the same virus, whose activity is “switched” from one function to the next by changing the acidity of its environment. The work was funded by Eni, through the MIT Energy Initiative’s Solar Futures Program. Click to enlarge. Strano, Paula T.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

ExxonMobil and Princeton University announced the selection of five research projects associated with their partnership focused on energy technologies. Research will be led by Daniel Steingart, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment. 78 and William H.

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OCTOBER 3, 2014

Gregory Stephanopoulos, the Willard Henry Dow Professor of Chemical Engineering at MIT and colleagues at MIT and the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research have identified a new way to boost yeast tolerance to ethanol by simply altering the composition of the medium in which the yeast are grown. —Gregory Stephanopoulos.

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MARCH 10, 2023

Agilicious is a co-designed hardware and software framework tailored to autonomous, agile quadrotor flight, which has been developed and used since 2016 at the Robotics and Perception Group of the University of Zurich. Agilicious is completely open-source and open hardware and supports both model-based and neural-network-based controllers!

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MARCH 23, 2019

HITEMMP projects include: Michigan State University. Michigan State University’s HIPPED technology is a highly scalable heat exchanger suited for high-efficiency power generation systems that use supercritical CO 2 as a working fluid and operate at high temperature and high pressure. Missouri University of Science and Technology.

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