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NASA selects four university teams for aviation projects; eliminating emissions and autonomy research

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Team members include Georgia Tech, Purdue University, Boeing, GE Research, ANSYS, Southwest Research Institute, and the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority. Team members include Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, University at Buffalo, University of Kentucky, Georgia Tech, Raytheon, Boeing, and Advanced Magnet Lab.

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Q&A: Inside DARPA’s Subterranean Challenge

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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. Can you talk about that?

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DARPA SubT Finals: Meet the Teams

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Sierra Nevada Corporation. Georgia Institute of Technology. It is always a learning process to discover how the robots respond to new classes of obstacle; responding to this on the fly in a new environment is extremely challenging. Team CERBERUS. USA, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Norway. University of Nevada, Reno. Follow Team.

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President Obama Announces 48 Projects to Receive $2.4B in Grants for Next-Generation of Batteries and Electric Vehicles; To be Combined with $2.4B in Industry Cost-Share

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Expanding established propulsion systems into a volume manufacturing environment. Cascade Sierra Solutions. State of Colorado State of Georgia Fort Collins, CO Boulder, CO Atlanta, GA. Potential locations in IN : Anderson, Morristown, Greenfield, or Indianapolis Fargo, ND. UQM Technologies, Inc. Muncie, IN Holly, MI. Technology.

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