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DECEMBER 24, 2013

Researchers led by a team from the University of Houston have characterized the platinum group elemental composition of PM 2.5 However, because these elements are also emitted by many other natural and anthropogenic sources, isolating the vehicular sources in urban environments is complicated. Credit: ACS, Bozlaker et al.

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AUGUST 31, 2011

These teams will investigate the fate of petroleum in the environment; the impacts of the spill; and the development of new tools and technology for responding to future spills and improving mitigation and restoration. The Research Consortia funded are: Lead Institution: The University of Texas at Austin, Marine Science Institute.

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JANUARY 2, 2017

Cities and regions across Texas are partnering with the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI), the University of Texas at Austin’s Center for Transportation Research (CTR), and Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) to form the Texas Automated Vehicle (AV) Proving Ground Partnership.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2022

and Princeton University’s Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment have created a scalable photocatalyst that can convert ammonia into hydrogen fuel. —Hossein Robatjazi, chief scientist at Houston-based Syzygy Plasmonics. The research is published in Science. Courtesy of Syzygy Plasmonics, Inc.

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JULY 27, 2017

A new robust and highly active bifunctional catalyst developed by Rice University and the University of Houston splits water into hydrogen and oxygen without the need for expensive metals such as platinum. Credit: Desmond Schipper/Rice University). Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge. Welch Foundation.

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APRIL 11, 2025

MIT ] CubiX is a wire-driven robot that connects to the environment through wires, with drones used to establish these connections. But to engineers at the University of California San Diego, this game was an inspiration, suggesting that measuring tape could become a great material for a robotic gripper. JSK Lab ] Thanks, Shintaro!

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

ORNL and its partners will develop an integrated simulation environment, the Fusion Energy Reactor Models Integrator (FERMI), to assess and accelerate the design cycle of integrated fusion-energy systems. University of California, San Diego. University of Houston. University of California, Los Angeles.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The selected projects—spanning 22 states and coordinated at universities, national laboratories, and private companies—will advance technologies for a wide range of areas, including electric vehicles, offshore wind, storage and nuclear recycling. Cornell University. Stanford University. The Ohio State University.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

To reduce the number of accidents in the global oil and gas industry caused by damaged pipelines, University of Houston researchers are developing an autonomous robot to identify potential pipeline leaks and structural failures during subsea inspections.

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JANUARY 29, 2021

A team of researchers led by Zhifeng Ren, director of the Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston, has developed an oxygen-evolving catalyst that takes just minutes to grow at room temperature on commercially available nickel foam. 13, 3439-3446 doi: 10.1039/D0EE00921K.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Researchers at the University of Houston (UH), with colleagues from Central China Normal University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, have developed a two-electrode catalyst that relies on one compound to produce hydrogen and oxygen efficiently from both seawater and freshwater.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2012

the Environment. Houston-Galveston. will work to expand access to natural gas, propane and biodiesel transportation fuels across the eight-county Houston-Galveston area. University, North. University of Central. The California Fleets and Workplace Alternative Fuels Project is a statewide. Center for. Area Council.

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JULY 30, 2017

A new class of materials which are suitable agents for displacing oil in enhanced oil recovery operations has been developed by scientists at Swansea University (UK) and scientists at Islamic Azad University in Iran. Barron reported their find in the ACS journal Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. Barron is the Charles W.

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APRIL 22, 2011

A study by researchers at the University of Texas found that in general, use of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) can lead to an increase in ozone during nighttime hours (due to decreased scavenging from both vehicles and EGU stacks) and a decrease in ozone during daytime hours. The results are less clear in Dallas and Houston.

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MARCH 7, 2025

Robot Studio ] at [ University of Michigan ] Hard to believe that RoMeLa has been developing humanoid robots for 20 (!) RoMeLa ] at [ University of California Los Angeles ] In this demo, Reachy 2 autonomously sorts healthy and unhealthy foods. This work aims to bring ownership back to artists in the age of generative AI.

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APRIL 4, 2025

University of Zurich (UZH) ] Unitree releases Dex5 dexterous hand. Suzumori Endo Lab ] No matter the vehicle, traditional control systems struggle when unexpected challengeslike damage, unforeseen environments, or new missionspush them beyond their design limits. No map, no IMU, no SLAM! Best wishes to Professor Suzumori!

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DECEMBER 12, 2017

The greatest risk in offshore oil and gas operations is the uncontrolled release of hydrocarbons and the threats such events pose to human health and safety, the environment, and infrastructure—as evidenced by the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Oklahoma State University. Louisiana State University. University of Houston.

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OCTOBER 21, 2015

The Rice lab of chemist James Tour and colleagues at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the University of Texas at San Antonio and the University of Houston have developed a robust, solid-state catalyst that shows promise to replace expensive platinum for hydrogen generation. It should be easy to integrate into devices. ”.

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AUGUST 2, 2011

CSI Technologies (Houston, TX) - Lowering Drilling Cost, Improving Operational Safety, and Reducing Environmental Impact through Zonal Isolation Improvements for Horizontal Wells Drilled in the Marcellus and Haynesville Shales. Texas A&M University (College Station, TX) - A Geomechanical Analysis of Gas Shale Fracturing and Its Containment.

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MARCH 31, 2017

The researchers outfitted vehicles with sensors to detect ammonia levels and focused on six cities: Philadelphia, Denver and Houston in the United States, and Beijing, Shijiazhuang and Baoding in China. Wallace and Hu Jun Leong of Rice University; M. and Tong Zhu of Peking University. —Sun et al. Miller, Da Pan, Levi M.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Held on university campuses across the United States, the experience also helps them stand out in an increasingly competitive college-acceptance environment. The first of two sessions held at the University of Pennsylvania, one of the new camp locations, sold out well before the enrollment deadline. “The

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APRIL 18, 2025

Unitree ] A team of scientists and students from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands (TU Delft) has taken first place at the A2RL Drone Championship in Abu Dhabi - an international race that pushes the limits of physical artificial intelligence, challenging teams to fly fully autonomous drones using only a single camera.

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JUNE 6, 2025

This new controller was trained in simulation, enabling Digit to execute tasks while navigating new environments and manipulating objects it has never encountered before. University of Michigan Robotics ] What’s the Trick? We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months.

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AUGUST 30, 2024

Paper ] Earthworm-inspired robots require novel actuators, and Ayato Kanada at Kyushu University has come up with a neat one. Fourier ] Bio-Inspired Robot Hands: Altus Dexterity is a collaboration between researchers and professionals from Carnegie Mellon University, UPMC, the University of Illinois and the University of Houston.

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APRIL 28, 2023

The almost noise-free prototype can trap objects underneath its body without physical contact, thereby enabling safe interactions in delicate environments such as coral reefs. This short video shows an actuator from Ed Habtour at the University of Washington, modeled after the vertebrae of sea birds and snakes. [ Paper ] Thanks, Pham!

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JUNE 26, 2021

Hot Shot Coanda-Stabilized Free Stream Gas Atomization (Hot CoSA) of Powders of Refractory Multi-Principle Element Alloys (RMPEA) for Extreme Environments, $250,000. Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, Illinois). Utility Global (Houston, Texas). Electric Grid OT Cybersecurity Dashboard for Control Room Environments, $600,000.

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JUNE 20, 2011

Furthermore, the Bio-BDO fermentation process operates near ambient pressure and temperature, thus providing a safer working environment. Greener reaction conditions: Kraton Performance Polymers, LLC, Houston, Texas. Lipshutz, PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara. Academic: Bruce H.

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MAY 16, 2025

FALCON ] An MRSD Team at the CMU Robotics Institute is developing a robotic platform to map environments through perceptual degradation, identify points of interest, and relay that information back to first responders. With a minimum width of 38 centimeters, the robots small footprint allows it to navigate the typical home environment.

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JUNE 2, 2023

Goh, Ufuk Topcu, and Avinash Balachandran from University of Texas at Austin, USA, and Toyota Research Institute, Los Altos, Calif., Samuel Au from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, and Multiscale Medical Robotics Centre, Hong Kong. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months.

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OCTOBER 7, 2022

Tech United ] A team led by the University of California San Diego has developed a new system of algorithms that enables four-legged robots to walk and run on challenging terrain while avoiding both static and moving obstacles. Robinson customers, we autonomously moved 1M+ pounds of freight for Constellation Brands from Dallas to Houston.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The MagicHand S01 has a hand load capacity of up to 5 kilograms, and in work environments, can carry loads of over 20 kilograms. This proposed investigation aims to build a foundation for further terradynamics study of vibration-driven soft robots in a more complicated and confined environment, with potential applications in inspection tasks.

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MAY 5, 2023

KIMLAB ] The Star Wars universe does have a thing for gold legged robots. Indoor Capture is the newest Skydio 3D Scan mode that is specifically tailored for autonomously scanning large, complex, indoor environments. Please send us your events for inclusion. Happy May the 4th from KIMLAB! SkyMul ] Thanks, Eohan!

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MAY 30, 2025

For a humanoid robot to be successful and generalizable in a factory, warehouse, or even at home requires a comprehensive understanding of the world around itboth the shape and the context of the objects and environments the robot interacts with. University of Massachusetts Amherst ] Thanks, Julia! Also, those chopsticks are cheaters.

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DECEMBER 11, 2024

The company is also testing operations in 25 other major metro areas , including Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Miami, and New York City. to San Francisco, which is a more complex driving environment. In truth, there is so much we dont know about how these cars will be adopted in the social systems that are modern urban environments.

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OCTOBER 30, 2024

They all follow a universal template that Qoori developed to optimize the construction of the company’s ever-larger centers. In a win-win for the environment, fly ash can also be used as a building block for low- and even zero-emission concrete, and the high heat of processing neutralizes many of the toxins it contains.

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MAY 19, 2023

It’s human frailty being replicated in the online environment. The IEEE Fellow, a computer science professor at Rice University , in Houston, is the recipient of the IEEE Frances E. But, he added, “People are doing harmful things on the Internet to other people, such as ransomware, malware, and disinformation. Allen Medal.

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MAY 2, 2025

The LYNX M20 series represents the worlds first wheeled-legged robot built specifically for challenging terrains and hazardous environments during industrial operation. And heres a bit more on how it was done, mostly with arms from Universal Robots. [ DEEP Robotics ] The latest OK Go music video includes lots of robots.

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