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Video Friday: LASSIE On the Moon

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USC, UPenn, Texas A&M, Oregon State, Georgia Tech, Temple University, and NASA Johnson Space Center are teaching dog-like robots to navigate craters of the moon and other challenging planetary surfaces in research funded by NASA. [ With this information, MOMO replicates the dance motions with its arm and hand joints.

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Unico's Battery Testing Enters a Competitive Industry

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At the International Battery Seminar & Exhibit held 12-15 March in Orlando, many of the world’s leading battery makers, test equipment manufacturers, and theorists gathered to talk about advances in the field and to present new products claiming to make the battery production process quicker and cheaper. But important questions remain. “It

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Video Friday: Ingenuity’s 50th Flight

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JPL ] Georgia Tech researchers have recently created a soft rotary motor using liquid metal, compliant magnetic composites, and silicone polymers. Naver Labs ] This seminar is from Matt Zucker at Swarthmore College, on “Robotics education and research at a liberal arts college.”

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

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includes Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina and Tennessee, will provide first. Austin and San Antonio region; and hold training seminars regarding multifamily housing and workplace electric vehicle charging. The California Fleets and Workplace Alternative Fuels Project is a statewide. petroleum reduction strategies. Center for.

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