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JUNE 12, 2022
A team from MIT has developed a new approach to fabricating oxide-based solid-state electrolytes that are comparable in thickness to the polymer separators found in current Li-ion batteries without sintering: sequential decomposition synthesis (SDS).
Cars That Think
NOVEMBER 12, 2023
Back in 2005, before smartphones were generally available, MIT Professor Hari Balakrishnan was so fed up with commuting delays in Boston that he built a mobile system to monitor road conditions. He interviewed for a faculty position at MIT and knew immediately it was where he wanted to work, he says. In the final year of his Ph.D.,
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 22, 2018
MIT researchers have demonstrated that an aircraft with a 5-meter wingspan can sustain steady-level flight using ionic-wind propulsion. The MIT team’s final design resembles a large, lightweight glider. This research was supported, in part, by MIT Lincoln Laboratory Autonomous Systems Line, the Professor Amar G. —Xu et al.
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JUNE 6, 2013
Driving in chaotic urban traffic can be as nearly as stressful as jumping out of an airplane, according to new findings from an Audi and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) study. —Kael Greco, project leader, MIT SENSEable City Laboratory. —Professor Carlo Ratti, director, MIT SENSEable City Laboratory.
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JANUARY 10, 2023
Derq’s safety performance metrics are based on real-time identification and granular classification of safety events and road user behaviors such as crashes, near-misses, violations, and pedestrian and cyclist compliance issues. Derq’s dashboard showing the new Automated Safety Performance Monitoring features on a local road network.
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FEBRUARY 23, 2024
We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. NRL did some interesting stuff with Nexi robots from MIT and made their own videos. MIT CSAIL ] Large industrial asset operators increasingly use robotics to automate hazardous work at their facilities.
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DECEMBER 22, 2011
A three-year study by a team of researchers based at MIT has concluded that fundamental changes are needed in the US energy-innovation system. The study was carried out at the MIT Industrial Performance Center and involved faculty and students from nine MIT departments. Business as usual is unsustainable over the long run.
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