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KLM purchases Neste SAF for flights out of Schiphol

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KLM only sources sustainable aviation fuels based on waste and residue feedstocks that significantly reduce the CO 2 footprint and do not have a negative impact on food production or the environment. In the US and Europe, Neste’s renewable jet fuel annual capacity is currently 100,000 tons.

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Video Friday: Baby Clappy

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Robust dynamic stability paired with advanced perception capabilities enables Digit to maneuver through a logistics warehouse environment or even a stretch of trail in the woods. Zhao Lab ] Engineers at Rice University have developed a method that allows humans to help robots “see” their environments and carry out tasks.

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Video Friday: Robots Stock Up

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IEEE CASE 2022 : 20–24 August 2022, MEXICO CITY CLAWAR 2022 : 12–14 September 2022, AZORES, PORTUGAL IROS 2022 : 23–27 October 2022, KYOTO, JAPAN ANA Avatar XPRIZE Finals : 4–5 November 2022, LOS ANGELES CoRL 2022 : 14–18 December 2022, AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND Enjoy today's videos!

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Video Friday: Robot Soccer Finals

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Paper ] The compliance and conformability of soft robots provide inherent advantages when working around delicate objects or in unstructured environments. The end-effector achieves high accuracy through the use of multiple contact points, compliance, and actuation. UCSD ] I like this idea of making incidental art with robots. [

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Video Friday: Uncrewed

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ANA Avatar XPRIZE Finals : 4–5 November 2022, LOS ANGELES CoRL 2022 : 14–18 December 2022, AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND Enjoy today's videos! In a new article published in Nature, scientists from Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands) and Aix-Marseille University (France) describe how insects detect gravity.

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Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice?

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“There’s a massive shadow risk, which is that any speaker-verification technology can be turned into speaker identification,” says Wiebke Toussaint Hutiri , a researcher at Delft University of Technology, in the Netherlands, who has studied bias. On camera, the man claimed he’d taken part in the violence and had firebombed a drugstore.

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Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

EnergyCS, March 2005 Greg Hanssen, Pete Nortman and team Los Angeles County, CA info@energycs.com 3. EnergyCS/Clean-Tech, May 2005 EnergyCS Los Angeles County, CA info@energycs.com 4. South Coast Air Quality Management District, March 2006 EnergyCS Los Angeles County, CA LMirisola@aqmd.gov 8. Jim Tech Ltd.

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