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Wireless Worries Overshadow Triumphs of RF Research

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Kenneth Foster: In the context of RF safety, exposure refers to the fields outside the body, while dose refers to energy absorbed within body tissues. Kenneth Foster, University of Pennsylvania In your opinion, is exposure assessment a solved problem? Foster: Measuring RF fields in free space is not a problem. The list goes on.

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Video Friday: Make This Face

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UW has been developing this work under DARPA’s Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency (RACER) program. UW’s approach uses only onboard sensors and compute and does not reference GPS or predefined maps for localization. Shadow ] Haven't seen one of Toyota's musical robots in a while. m is presented. UPenn ].

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DOE to award $11M to 20 new Clean Cities projects for alt fuel cars and trucks

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the Environment. The Pennsylvania Partnership for Promoting Natural Gas Vehicles project. use; produce a technical reference manual for utilities and policy makers to. The California Fleets and Workplace Alternative Fuels Project is a statewide. effort to develop templates and best practices for permitting AFV refueling.

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How the U.S. Army Is Turning Robots Into Team Players

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In structured environments like factories, this works well enough. RoMan, along with many other robots including home vacuums , drones, and autonomous cars, handles the challenges of semistructured environments through artificial neural networks—a computing approach that loosely mimics the structure of neurons in biological brains.

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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In the NTSC standard, colors are determined by the phase difference between the color signal and a color reference signal transmitted at the beginning of each line.) The freedom that allowed us to do the C-64 project will probably never exist again in that environment.” ?Postscript At that point, you’re hung up.”

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