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Empa recommends buying diesel vehicles only if Euro 6d-TEMP or Euro 6d

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On 1 September 2017, new emissions regulations for passenger vehicles come into force in the EU and Switzerland. million with diesel engines were registered in Switzerland. The team included experts from the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN), the Federal Roads Office (FEDRO), Bern University of Applied Sciences and Empa.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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At issue is the 2012 expiration of the Kyoto Protocol, a binding but effectively unenforceable 1997 treaty that had set greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets for 40 industrialized countries, referred to as Annex 1 countries, yielding an average GHG reduction of 5.2%

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Met Office Climate Scientist: “Apocalyptic Predictions” Of Climate Change Can Impede Understanding Of Long-Term Warming Trends

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A study by Switzerland’s Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology noted that mainland Europe has warmed about 1 ºC since the 1980s, an increase that is fully half of the 2 ºC warming that is most commonly cited as the threshold of dangerous climate change, as compared to pre-industrial times. Earlier post.).

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Video Friday: Reflex Grasping

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The almost noise-free prototype can trap objects underneath its body without physical contact, thereby enabling safe interactions in delicate environments such as coral reefs. Nina Lanza and her team tested autonomous drones in the frigid environment that is similar to Mars.

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Asad Madni and the Life-Saving Sensor

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Others were willing to adapt, and he sent some of those engineers to visit watch manufacturers in Switzerland to learn about handling quartz; the watch industry had been using the material for decades. He is curious about society, about human behavior, about the environment—and, broadly speaking, the survival of our civilization.”.

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Video Friday: Autonomous Car Drifting, Aerial-Aquatic Drone, and Jet-Powered Robot

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To enable aerial reorientation for safe landing in the quadruped robots, we design a control architecture, which is verified in a high-fidelity physics simulation environment with different initial conditions. Gallen, Switzerland, and Heriot-Watt University, in Edinburgh, Scotland. We refer to such tasks as paper-flipping.

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Building a Zero Trust Security Model for Autonomous Systems

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Gartner refers to the simultaneous evolution of control, orchestration, and understanding in IT systems as. For example, researchers in Germany and Switzerland have experimented with implementing quantum-safe cryptographic algorithms to protect drone communications. hyperautomation.

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