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Making Boston Dynamics’ Robots Dance

Cars That Think

When you project too much on people, you lose the person, and that’s not really fair. It was about what’s happening in society, what’s happening in me as a person. I mean, it can be hard in that environment that people feel like their expertise is being given to the other side. The work that I made was really about context.

Boston 89
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Drones That Can Fly Better Than You Can

Cars That Think

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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Is aviation the best application yet for hydrogen fuel cells?

Charged EVs

My father worked in the oil industry, but his formal education was in aviation maintenance and mechanics back in the Soviet Union, so I got exposed to some of that early on. It was always a personal passion, and I was already working on green transportation, so that was a natural intersection.

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Europe/US team: transitioning to a low-carbon world will create new rivalries, winners and losers

Green Car Congress

Nigeria or Algeria cannot do the same for their oil industry. Petro-states are compensated to transition smoothly to a sustainable economy, avoiding a last-ditch attempt to flood the world with cheap oil and gas. Some national oil companies go bankrupt and others consolidate into a handful of global energy giants.

Carbon 207
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EAA National Board nominations from across North America

Electric Auto Association

As a mariner, I have focused on Health, Safety, & Environment concerns. He recognizes the diminishing power of the oil and gas industry, and embraces the imminent future of electrically powered transportation. Personally meeting Sandy Munro to exchange ideas of the future of BEVs. Let’s meet the candidates.

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EAA National Board nominations from across North America

Electric Auto Association

As a mariner, I have focused on Health, Safety, & Environment concerns. He recognizes the diminishing power of the oil and gas industry, and embraces the imminent future of electrically powered transportation. Personally meeting Sandy Munro to exchange ideas of the future of BEVs. Let’s meet the candidates.

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Study finds drone-based delivery could reduce GHG emissions and energy use in the transportation sector, if deployed sensibly

Green Car Congress

Several companies are developing programs for package delivery using drones, including Amazon, Google, UPS and Deutsche Post DHL. Both small drones and large drones are shown to have lower GHG emissions than use of a personal vehicle to pick-up a single package. Stolaroff et al. Click to enlarge.

Emissions 170