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U-M, Ford open robotics complex to accelerate future of advanced, more equitable robotics and mobility

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The University of Michigan and Ford Motor Company are opening a new advanced robotics facility. The fourth floor houses Ford’s first robotics and mobility research lab on a university campus, as well as 100 Ford researchers—including autonomous vehicle researchers—and engineers.

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International collaboration develops progressive vision for urban production at the BMW Group; OMA and 3XN

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The aim is to realize outstanding, future-ready production in the urban setting of the company’s home plant in Munich. BMW Group Plant Munich future Vision Urban Production with neighborhood. With the BMW iFACTORY, production at the BMW Group is offering a clear view into the automotive production of the future.

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Students Use Their Tech Know-How to Protect the Environment

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universities and colleges to use their engineering and technical skills to mitigate and address the impact of climate change in their communities. We envision that in the future there will be a network of these types of tools,” says Natalie Nelson , assistant professor in the biological and agricultural engineering department.

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Stanford launches major new natural gas research initiative

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Stanford University has launched a new research initiative to study comprehensively the development and use of natural gas. If developed in a responsible manner, natural gas can be the critical transition fuel that reduces the environmental impacts of fossil fuels and keeps us on a path toward a decarbonized energy future.

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GM and OnStar sign on as official Pecan Street partners; studying EV services and smart grid interaction

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Headquartered at The University of Texas at Austin, Pecan Street Inc. to help shape future electric vehicle services. When Austin closed the Mueller municipal airport in 1999, community leaders committed to redeveloping the site into a ground-breaking mix-used, sustainable urban neighborhood. Reclaimed water system.

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Sensor Networks Help Fight Floods and Noise Pollution

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However, the research team quickly learned that it was difficult to determine when to travel to field sites to collect flood water samples. The sensors are tuned to only detect reflections from large surfaces such as a flood water rather than smaller transient surfaces including bikes locked to the posts that sensors are mounted to.

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Heating Buildings With Solar Energy Stored in Sand

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Anthropogenic climate change confronts humanity with a challenge: How can we keep warm now as we try to prevent our world from overheating in the future? The hot air then flows back out of the vessel into a heat exchanger, where it heats water that is then circulated through building heating systems.

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