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MAY 14, 2020

The Electric Power Research Institute’s (EPRI) proof-of-concept study will explore moving from the traditional “maintain and repair” to a “replace and refurbish” approach, in which components are intentionally designed and tested for shorter and more predictable lifetimes with the potential for game-changing O&M cost savings.

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MAY 31, 2017

Since its launch in 2011, CSRC has collaborated with leading North American universities, hospitals, and research institutions on projects aimed at reducing traffic casualties, and sharing the results publicly so that all can benefit. At launch, CSRC Next’s research portfolio includes eight projects in partnership with six schools.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2023

JPL ] Cassie Blue showcases its ability to navigate a moving walkway, a common yet challenging scenario in human environments. It can be also steered to navigate through a cluttered environment with obstacles. The highest altitude achieved in this flight was 20 m. At the time, that was a record for the helicopter. [ That is all.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In a new study, engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder debuted mCLARI, a 2-centimeter-long modular robot that can passively change its shape to squeeze through narrow gaps in multiple directions. Queens University ] Thanks Josh! Evolve, evolve, and evolve again! Happy Halloween! Paper ] Thanks Samarth!

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Using a new kind of hydrogel material, researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have pulled water out of thin air at temperatures low enough to be achieved with sunlight. The hydrogel can release more than 80 percent of absorbed water in about 20 minutes at a temperature of 40 °C—hot, but not uncommon in desert environments.

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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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NOVEMBER 20, 2013

The University of Texas at Austin. The University of Texas at Austin along with Ohio State University and Columbia University-Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory will examine what the primary influences are on the development of persistent, massive hydrate accumulations in deep sediments below the seabed.

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MARCH 15, 2024

Legendary MIT roboticist Daniela Rus has published a new book called The Heart and the Chip: Our Bright Future with Robots. To me this character is a tremendous inspiration, yet I often remind myself that in the story, he begins his career as an MIT-­trained weapons manufacturer and munitions developer.

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JULY 10, 2009

Benjamin Felzer, Lehigh University. Felzer and colleagues from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge and the Marine Biology Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., Studies have shown that despite a global drop in rainfall over land in the past 50 years, runoff has actually increased. Cronin, J. Melillo, D.

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JUNE 28, 2023

CRAWFORD EMPLOYER Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. TITLE ‘Professor of civil engineering, agronomy, and electrical and computer engineering MEMBER GRADE Fellow ALMA MATERS University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Ohio State University, Columbus But her engineering path eventually led her back to agriculture.

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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. Tammy Thompson, (now at MIT), lead author.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2012

A Stanford University research team is designing a high-efficiency wireless charging system using magnetic resonance coupling ( earlier post ) to wirelessly transmit large electric currents between metal coils placed several feet apart. Simplified schematic of the wireless energy transfer system in free space. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 22, 2023

VR headsets allow students to immerse themselves in realistic digital environments to learn math and science by solving real-world problems, such as calculating how high a house’s foundation should be raised to offset the risk of flooding. The 10-year study is being conducted in Arizona.

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JULY 9, 2022

Fuzzy theory is wrong, wrong, and pernicious,” said William Kahan, a highly regarded professor of computer sciences and mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley in 1975. Kalman in 1972, who is now a professor at Florida State University in Tallahassee. The denunciations were sometimes extreme. But Zadeh never wavered.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2009

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and MIT have found that increasing the particle size of a fuel cell catalyst can decrease its degradation and therefore increase the useful lifetime of a fuel cell. While platinum can withstand the corrosive fuel cell environment, it is expensive and not very abundant.

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MARCH 24, 2022

In the 1950s he was her father’s first supervisor at the Institute for Advanced Studies , in Princeton, N.J. Gerald Estrin led the development of the WEIZAC , the first digital electronic computer made in the Middle East, and he helped found the computer science department at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2016

To do so, they developed a systems-level approach that integrates transcriptomic sequencing (RNA-Seq); proteomics; phenotype; and biochemical studies. O’Malley’s study is the first to result from a partnership between the two facilities called Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science or FICUS. —Michelle O’Malley.

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APRIL 30, 2010

The aerobic microbe has been engineered at MIT and is capable of converting a variety of organic compounds into oil, from which biodiesel may be produced. NC State University. Medical University of South Carolina. Columbia University. A123 Systems, Rutgers University). Harvard, Univ. of Delaware). of Georgia).

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DECEMBER 8, 2010

An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the University of Maryland’s A. In parallel, we are collaborating with our colleagues at Drexel and MIT to construct surfaces that resemble the structure of plant leaves. James Culver’s work is conducted in collaboration with Purdue University professor Michael Harris.

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MAY 31, 2016

For the study, the research team used ab initio calculations to demonstrate which specific chemical and structural features lead to electrochemically active oxygen states in cathode materials. O 2 , Li 2 Ru 0.5 O 2 and Li 1.3 —Seo et al.

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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. Images: MIT/Aurora Flight Sciences. MIT was the only university to lead one of the six US teams that won contracts from NASA in October 2008. Click to enlarge.

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MAY 17, 2024

However, these robots must perform their tasks dexterously and safely in shared human environments, especially when handling dangerous tools such as kitchen knives. This study focuses on enabling a robot to autonomously and safely learn food-cutting tasks. The system is evaluated in an active outdoor three-phase powerline environment.

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MARCH 11, 2023

In 1997, Willett Kempton , a professor at the University of Delaware, and Steve Letendre , a professor at Green Mountain College, in Vermont, began publishing a series of journal articles that imagined the bidirectional EV as a resource for electricity utilities. After earning a Ph.D. Advocates believe that V2G can help pay for EV batteries.

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APRIL 16, 2023

from MIT in 1963. www.youtube.com As an undergraduate engineering student at Carnegie Tech (today’s Carnegie Mellon University), and then as a graduate student at Caltech (before he moved to MIT after one year), Sutherland continued to design and build more advanced light-seeking robots. At MIT, Sutherland met with Wesley A.

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OCTOBER 3, 2023

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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OCTOBER 3, 2014

Now, two new separate studies report progress on each of those fronts; the findings could have a significant impact on industrial biofuel production. The MIT team found that adding potassium and hydroxide ions to the medium in which yeast grow can help cells compensate for that membrane damage. —Gregory Stephanopoulos.

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JULY 19, 2011

A new study by the Highway Loss Data Institute (HLDI) found that Volvo XC60 midsize SUVs outfitted with a standard collision-avoidance feature called City Safety are far less likely to be involved in low-speed crashes than comparable vehicles without the system. MIT and smart intersections. Volvo’s City Safety.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

ExxonMobil and Princeton University announced the selection of five research projects associated with their partnership focused on energy technologies. Research will be led by Daniel Steingart, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment. 78 and William H.

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APRIL 25, 2011

Researchers at MIT led by Drs. The two functions are carried out in succession by the same virus, whose activity is “switched” from one function to the next by changing the acidity of its environment. The work was funded by Eni, through the MIT Energy Initiative’s Solar Futures Program. Click to enlarge. Strano, Paula T.

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APRIL 29, 2009

the session counted among its panelists: Professor John Heywood, Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Sloan Auto Laboratory at MIT. Dr. Heywood recently co-authored a study called “On The Road in 2035—Reducing Petroleum Consumption and GHG Emissions.”. Professor Sebastian Thrun, Stanford University.

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AUGUST 20, 2021

Constant Gardener ] via [ RobotStart ] Engineers at MIT and Shanghai Jiao Tong University have designed a soft, lightweight, and potentially low-cost neuroprosthetic hand. study, one of the most rewarding experiences is to improve upon the Panther robot. During my Ph.D. ElliQ ].

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AUGUST 20, 2021

Constant Gardener ] via [ RobotStart ] Engineers at MIT and Shanghai Jiao Tong University have designed a soft, lightweight, and potentially low-cost neuroprosthetic hand. study, one of the most rewarding experiences is to improve upon the Panther robot. During my Ph.D. ElliQ ].

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NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Sanctuary ] Ayato Kanada, an assistant professor at Kyushu University in Japan, wrote in to share "the world's simplest omnidirectional mobile robot." Engineers at Georgia Tech are the first to study the mechanics of springtails, which leap in the water to avoid predators. Happy Thanksgiving, for those who celebrate it.

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MAY 10, 2023

The discovered materials are a very tiny fraction of the hypothesized materials—like a droplet of water in an ocean,” wrote MIT professor of nuclear science Mingda Li over email. But those materials don’t yet exist, and discovering them is a Herculean task that involves synthesizing and testing large numbers of hypothesized materials.

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AUGUST 3, 2015

The vehicles under study were a conventional and hybrid Camry). Prior studies are not well-suited to forecast the magnitude of current-technology HEVs on transportation energy use because the data were from laboratory studies of one or two early model HEVs (i.e., The duo, Britt A. Holmén and Karen M.

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OCTOBER 1, 2021

MIT ] Among the first electronic mobile robots were the experimental machines of neuroscientist W. Walter studied the brain's electrical activity at the Burden Neurological Institute (BNI) near Bristol, England. The smart hand is soft and elastic, weighs about half a pound, and costs a fraction of comparable prosthetics. [ Grey Walter.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2022

MIT ] In this video we demonstrate fully autonomous multi-contact locomotion for our humanoid robot LOLA. JHU ] Jessica Burgner-Kahrs from the University of Toronto gives an ICRA 2021 keynote: "I, Continuum Robot." [ CRL ]. Those are some of the least useful clocks I've ever seen. [ And evil ground robots too, I guess?

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