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Students Use Their Tech Know-How to Protect the Environment

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universities and colleges to use their engineering and technical skills to mitigate and address the impact of climate change in their communities. and its environs. Thirty-five students and several faculty members from the Ohio State University engineering college , in Columbus, designed an environmentally friendly solution.

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DeMoBat project developing robot-assisted dismantling for EV batteries and motors

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photo: Irina Westermann, KIT). —Environment Minister Franz Untersteller. Disassembling and reusing battery systems can help improve the environmental balance of electric cars. from reassembly to replacement batteries and use in second-life applications such as stationary energy storage to high-quality recycling of cell materials.

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Researchers report that SiC derived from ag waste can function as Li-ion anodes; competitive with silicon

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Researchers at the University of Michigan, with colleagues from Michigan State University and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany, report that high surface area silicon carbide (SiC) w/wo 13 wt. Modeling also supports deviation from the 3C phase at high Li contents with minimal volume changes. —Yu et al.

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NVIDIA introduces high-performance platform for embedded systems

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The NVIDIA Jetson TK1 Developer Kit offers performance of 326 gigaflops—nearly three times more than any similar embedded platform. The Jetson TK1 Developer Kit includes a full C/C++ toolkit based on NVIDIA CUDA architecture, the most pervasive parallel computing platform and programming model.

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Boston Dynamics Unleashes New Spot Variant for Research

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That fleet consists of a lot of commercial deployments, which is impressive for any mobile robot, but part of the reason for that is because the current version of Spot is really not intended for robotics research, even though over 100 universities are home to at least one Spot. But that’s changing.

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Video Friday: Robot Training

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Swiss-Mile ] Human cells grown in the lab could one day be used for a variety of tissue grafts, but these cells need the right kind of environment and stimulation. Robomechanics Lab ] A bolt-on 360 camera kit for your drone that costs $430. Insta360 ] I think I may be too old to have any idea what’s going on here.

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Freudenberg Sealing Technologies offers material testing for lithium-ion battery electrolytes

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The IsoC, a six-by-three-by-three-foot, two-chambered glass and steel enclosure, allows chemists to work in a controlled, inert and moisture-free environment. All of our exposure testing must be performed inside the IsoC in an oxygen-free, moisture-free environment.