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FEBRUARY 18, 2023

Energetics Technology Center will build upon past successes with co-deposition experiments using palladium, lithium, and heavy water together to create an environment in which LENR can occur. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Neutron Emission from Laser-Stimulated Metal Hydrides - $2,000,000.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2024

In order to interact with and manipulate their environments, most legged robots are equipped with a dedicated robot arm, which means additional mass and mechanical complexity compared to standard legged robots. NRL did some interesting stuff with Nexi robots from MIT and made their own videos. Pedipulate ] I learned a new word today!

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JUNE 27, 2012

MIT researchers have discovered that lead concentrations in the Indian Ocean are now higher than in the northern Atlantic and northern Pacific oceans. They are presenting their results this week at the Goldschmidt Geochemistry Conference in Montreal.

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AUGUST 29, 2011

Researchers at MIT have developed a new detailed air-quality model to simulate the effects of physical, chemical, and meteorological processing of highly reactive trace species in urban areas.

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JULY 18, 2015

Findings by MIT researchers could help advance the commercialization of supercritical water technology for the desulfurization and upgrading of high-sulfur crude oil into high-value, cleaner fuels such as gasoline without using hydrogen—a major change in refining technology that would reduce costs, energy use, and CO 2 emissions.

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Energy Robotics ] This work presents a camera model for refractive media such as water and its application in underwater visual-inertial odometry. Current robotic systems focus on avoiding unexpected contact, often relying on strategically placed environment sensors. VISTEC ] Thanks Poramate! Paper ] Thanks Samarth!

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JUNE 10, 2022

Paper ] The compliance and conformability of soft robots provide inherent advantages when working around delicate objects or in unstructured environments. Ishikawa Lab ] We present hybrid adhesive end-effectors for bimanual handling of deformable objects. UCSD ] I like this idea of making incidental art with robots. [

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JUNE 26, 2010

Natural gas will play a leading role in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions over the next several decades, largely by replacing older, inefficient coal plants with highly efficient combined-cycle gas generation, according to a major new interim report out from MIT. The study found that there are significant global supplies of conventional gas.

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JUNE 10, 2011

” The MIT report said that natural gas should be seen as a “ bridge ” to a low-carbon regime, rather than as the ultimate long-term solution itself. MIT: The Future of Natural Gas. Separately, the International Energy Agency (IEA) released its own report exploring the potential for a “golden age” of gas. Source: IEA.

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JULY 18, 2011

Researchers at MIT, led by Prof. Ceder leads the CEDER (Computational and Experimental Design of Emerging materials Research group) at MIT, and has been pushing for the realization of the “Materials Genome” project to bring advanced automated computing environments coupled to databases to materials design.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2021

YouTube ] Scientists from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), in the ever-present quest to get machines to replicate human abilities, created a framework that's more scaled up: a system that can reorient over two thousand different objects, with the robotic hand facing both upwards and downwards.

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DECEMBER 16, 2021

To help solve this problem, Jagdeep Bhatia , an undergraduate researcher at MIT and other researchers created a 2D co-design soft robotics simulation system called Evolution Gym. They presented the system at this year’s Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. They also detailed the system in a new paper.

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MAY 14, 2020

X-energy’s Immersive Environment Toolset is a multi-disciplinary 3D model that, when combined with virtual reality, will test techniques that optimize maintenance and security. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will assemble, validate, and exercise high-fidelity digital twins of the BWRX-300 systems.

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MARCH 25, 2022

Swiss-Mile ] OTTO Lifter drives nimbly in crowded and dynamic environments and improves safety in warehouses and facilities. This paper presents a goal-conditioned dual-action deep imitation learning (DIL) which can learn dexterous manipulation skills using human demonstration data. With the same kind of great commentary, of course.

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THE EYE [ Atonaton ] Off-road terrain presents unique challenges for autonomous driving: steep slopes, ditches, rocks, vegetation, and ever-changing weather conditions. MIT ] Half a century since the concept of a cyborg was introduced, digital cyborgs, enabled by the spread of wearable robotics, are the focus of much research in recent times.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2022

In December of 2021 at the mock lunar surface environment in JAXA’s Sagamihara Campus, the GITAI lunar robotic rover R1 conducted numerous tasks and mobility operations, successfully completing all planned tests. This is cool looking, but I'd need to know more about how this system can deal with an actual lunar environment, right?

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APRIL 15, 2022

Tokyo Tech ] MIT engineers have developed a telerobotic system to help surgeons quickly and remotely treat patients experiencing a stroke or aneurysm. MIT ] For LOVOT, a new robot accessory that you never knew you (or anyone) needed. MIT ] For LOVOT, a new robot accessory that you never knew you (or anyone) needed.

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JUNE 16, 2023

The Mori3 is geared towards difficult-to-reach environments where the task isn’t always known ahead of time, such as outer space. MIT ] The next frontier of technology is here. With innovation, safety, and efficiency in mind, Torc Robotics has engineered autonomous vehicles that are revolutionizing our present and future.

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DOFEC ] Engineering a robot to perform a variety of tasks in practically any environment requires rock-solid hardware that's seamlessly integrated with software systems. After localizing, the UAV discharges an ampoule filled with a fire extinguishant from an onboard launcher and puts out the fire. I want to see a chase!

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JULY 15, 2020

FLECCS project teams will work to develop carbon capture and storage (CCS) processes that better enable technologies, such as natural gas power generators, to be responsive to grid conditions in a high variable renewable energy (VRE) penetration environment. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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In that period, CSRC has launched and completed 44 research projects with 23 partner universities, publishing more than 200 papers and presenting at multiple industry conferences. Another, with MIT, modelled in-vehicle voice command systems and driver behavior.

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MARCH 26, 2020

A data-driven simulation system invented at MIT, in collaboration with the Toyota Research Institute, to train driverless cars creates a photorealistic world with infinite steering possibilities, helping the cars learn to navigate a host of worse-case scenarios before cruising down real streets. That’s really powerful.

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Marc Raibert Raibert was a professor at Carnegie Mellon and MIT before founding Boston Dynamics in 1992. Raibert showed concept art at ICRA that included robots working in domestic environments such as kitchens, living rooms, and laundry rooms as well as industrial settings. “I He now leads the Boston Dynamics AI Institute.

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JULY 16, 2021

In this work, we propose a novel bug algorithm named ‘Sniffy Bug’, which allows a fully autonomous swarm of gas-seeking nano quadcopters to localize a gas source in an unknown, cluttered and GPS-denied environments. We present a novel samara-inspired autorotating craft that is capable of autorotating and diving. MIT CSAIL ].

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The MIT researchers created a spinoff company—WiTricity ( earlier post )—that is developing a stationary charging system capable of wirelessly transferring about 3 kW of electric power to a vehicle parked in a garage or on the street. WiTricity has entered partnerships with Toyota and Delphi. —Shanhui Fan.

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At the ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing this month in Portugal, researchers from MIT, Georgetown University and the National University of Singapore (NUS) will present a new algorithm that would allow Wi-Fi-connected cars to share their Internet connections. —Prof. John Heidemann, Univ.

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JANUARY 13, 2011

The MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) has released a report on the proceedings—and papers that informed those proceedings—of the 8 April 2010 symposium on The Electrification of the Transportation System: Issues and Opportunities. The symposium was sponsored by the MIT Energy Initiative, together with Ormat, Hess, Cummins and Entergy.

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JUNE 28, 2023

“People were really interested in clean air and clean water, so I decided there would always be interest in the environment,” Crawford says. You study many areas in civil engineering, including structures, soils, transportation, and the environment,” she says. She switched her major to civil and environmental engineering.

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Following on the launch of its first software developer program ( earlier post ), Ford is now turning its attention to the growing trend in hardware hacking by transforming vehicles into an experimental development environment. Finding new ways to reduce stress and keep the driver informed can make driving a more pleasant experience.

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JULY 10, 2009

Felzer and colleagues from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge and the Marine Biology Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., The amount of water that plants give up depends on how much carbon dioxide is present in the atmosphere. Plants that release less water also take less of it from the environment.

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MAY 15, 2010

An MIT-led team has designed an airplane that is estimated to use 70% less fuel than current planes while also reducing noise and emission of NO x. The design was one of two that the team, led by faculty from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, presented to NASA last month as part of a $2.1 Click to enlarge.

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It’s human frailty being replicated in the online environment. Brooks, an MIT robotics professor and cofounder of iRobot , said robots can help mitigate the effects of climate change and could help in caring for the elderly. “We I’m not surprised this is happening. The hard part is figuring out what to do about it.”

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O'Malley’s team also included scientists from PNNL, DOE JGI, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and Harper Adams University. O’Malley will present her findings at the DOE JGI’s 11 th Annual Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting in Walnut Creek, California, on 24 March. Solomon, Charles H. Haitjema, John K.

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JULY 9, 2022

That enabled him to be financially independent when he came to the United States to enroll in graduate school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge. MIT didn’t have many graduate students at the time,” Zadeh recalled, “so it was fairly easy to get in, even though the University of Teheran had no track record.”. “No

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A recent white paper by Leslie Bromberg of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center and Wai K. A full comparison between the different options has to be done, reflecting the present conditions. The preferred solution may depend on the region, the market sector and other externalities, including past and present policies.

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This suggests that the shift towards EVs presents a significant opportunity to reduce our carbon footprint by decreasing CO 2 emissions and improving air quality. As one MIT report found, on average, “a fully electric vehicle emits about 25 percent less carbon than a comparable hybrid car.”

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In today’s edition of Video Friday, we bring you a dozen of the most interesting projects presented at the conference. However, these robots must perform their tasks dexterously and safely in shared human environments, especially when handling dangerous tools such as kitchen knives.

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