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Rivian seemingly plans to reveal R2 on Mar 7 at flagship Laguna Beach store

Baua Electric

Rivian has filed plans for a “global product launch” on March 7th at its new flagship store in Laguna Beach, and documents reveal that the launch is of its much-anticipated smaller, more affordable R2 platform. These vehicles have received universal praise, but their starting price of around $80k puts them out of reach of many.

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How Purdue University Commercializes Its Research

Cars That Think

“When I was learning data structures, I began to see things from a different viewpoint—how to make things efficient,” says Lu, a professor of electrical and computer engineering and a university faculty scholar at Purdue University’s Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering , in West Lafayette, Ind.

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Video Friday: GR-1

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We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. A team led by researchers at the University of Washington created a set of 11 actions a robotic arm can make to pick up nearly any food attainable by fork. Fourier Intelligence ] Thanks, Ni Tao!

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Connect with Engineers Worldwide Through the IEEE App

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Networking made easy One popular way to network with others is at IEEE events. Or you can use the event-finder feature, which filters the search results by location, date, and topic. Users can add events to their calendar or bookmark them. You can download the IEEE app from Apple’s App Store or Google Play.

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Mercedes-Benz introduces #MoveSafety initiative with two-day hackathon; new app based on Chinese app

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Within the target group, the app has received a five-star rating in the app-store. The new initiative started with a hackathon which took place on 10-11 December, on the Campus of XU Exponential University in Potsdam, Germany, in order to adapt the “Tuban Xiong” app to the requirements of the German market.

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Punching above its weight

Electric Auto Association

Our first two ride & drives, in 2014 and 2015, were the largest NDEW events held in the area west of the Mississippi, south of St. The chapter scheduled pre-events that stretched for nearly 3 weeks before NDEW began. The right folks Erb gave other reasons for the chapter’s success that predate the original NDEW event.

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Study: Energy sorghum may combine best of annual, perennial bioenergy crops

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The study was led by former CABBI Postdoctoral Researcher Caitlin Moore and her advisor, Carl Bernacchi, Plant Physiologist with the US Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service and Adjunct Professor of Plant Biology and Crop Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Energy sorghum falls somewhere in between.

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