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In this paper, we propose AutoCharge, an autonomous charging solution for quadrotors that combines a portable ground station with a flexible, lightweight charging tether and is capable of universal, highly efficient, and robust charging. The BruBotics research group at VUB aims to bring robots closer to people with their record.

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A team at Columbia University, in New York City, has developed a wireless-communication technique for wearable medical devices that sends signals securely through body tissue. Anyone who has ever paid attention to how an incandescent lightbulb works knows that a significant amount of the energy aimed at creating light is lost as heat.

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Ceder also has an appointment at UC Berkeley’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and all the co-authors are also affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where some of the work was done.

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Then they cut the electrode into extremely thin slices and took them to Berkeley Lab for examination with intense X-rays from the Advanced Light Source synchrotron, a DOE Office of Science User Facility. This study is the first to do that comprehensively, under many charging and discharging conditions. —Yiyang Li, lead author.

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The next step in the implementation of the project will be establishment of a joint Chinese-Russian working group. The concept takes advantage of two mature technologies: light-water nuclear reactors and offshore oil and gas drilling platforms. The Chinese delegation came to St.

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As America has done throughout our history to meet a great national challenge, we will pull together a group of talented, creative scientists, engineers, and innovators to find the solutions we need for America’s energy security. The award selection is expected this fall.

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JULY 15, 2023

Gretchen Ertl/CFS/MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center CFS, a startup spun out of decades of research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), is among the leaders of a new wave of fusion-energy projects that have emerged in the past decade, taking advantage of technological advances as well as a surge in private-sector investment.

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Rather, the original spark often comes from a university lab , a renegade group at a large company, or a hobbyist building stuff for fun. Pixar's story doesn't even start with the creation of Lucasfilm's Computer Graphics Group, which developed the Pixar Image Computer, the company's first product.

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JULY 18, 2022

For 15 years, my team at the University of Göttingen, in Germany, has been collaborating with colleagues at the University of Freiburg and beyond to reinvent the cochlear implant in a strikingly counterintuitive way: using light. Then, people all over the world could begin to hear the light. cocktail party problem.

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The research program involves eight core projects: Light Capture and Conversion. This project focuses on the discovery and development of semiconducting materials for solar light absorption. This project focuses on automated, high-throughput discovery of materials that can act as light absorbers or catalysts for solar-fuel generation.

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This project will optimize fuel-based control of novel combustion strategies in light- and heavy-duty vehicles to enable diesel-like efficiencies with ultra-low engine-out emissions. Light-weighting materials. Demo Project for Multi-material light-weight prototype vehicle. Chrysler Group LLC. valve train vs. bearings).

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Ricardo says that the project is not an outcome of the DOE-funded project with Bosch and the University of Michigan announced in 2007 to implement an integrated hardware-software system that delivers gasoline-like fuel economy when operating on E-85. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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This left the magnetic amplifier to play only minor roles, such as for light dimmers in theaters. Even the space shuttle used magnetic amplifiers to dim its fluorescent lights. Universal Images Group/Getty Images. Early prototypes of NASA’s.

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MARCH 11, 2023

In 1997, Willett Kempton , a professor at the University of Delaware, and Steve Letendre , a professor at Green Mountain College, in Vermont, began publishing a series of journal articles that imagined the bidirectional EV as a resource for electricity utilities. After earning a Ph.D.

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Foundation for Skydio’s drones can be traced back to Adam’s work on autonomous agile drones at MIT , and after spending a few years at Google working on Project Wing’s delivery drones , Adam cofounded Skydio in 2014. Davide Scaramuzza directs the Robotics and Perception group at the University of Zürich.

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JUNE 24, 2022

The Real Robotics Lab at University of Leeds presents two Chef quadruped robots remotely controlled by a single operator to make a tasty burger as a team. MIT ] Thanks, Rachel! WVU ] A collaboration between Georgia Tech Robotic Musicianship Group and Avshalom Pollak Dance Theatre.

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A 2010 NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) analysis concluded that V2V systems potentially could address 79% of all vehicle target crashes, 81% of all light-vehicle target crashes, and 71% of all heavy-truck target crashes annually. MIT and smart intersections. The NHTSA assessment ( Frequency of Target Crashes for.

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Among the most articulate and almost certainly the wonkiest is Jesse Jenkins , a professor of engineering at Princeton University, where he heads the ZERO Lab—the Zero-carbon Energy systems Research and Optimization Laboratory, that is. Jenkins: We must at least be able to speak to society’s concerns, beyond just “Do the lights stay on?”

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Today, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to scientists from MIT, Columbia University, and the New York–based company Nanocrystals Technology for “the development of quantum dots , nanoparticles so tiny that their size determines their properties.” It’s a welcome development.

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JANUARY 26, 2022

These organic light-emitting diode displays are so-called because of their self-emission capabilities, using organic carbon-based compounds and other ingredients to create colors. Because each pixel produces its own light, OLEDs require no backlighting. The device had 64 pixels, each one emitting light.

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The people who developed the Alto came to Xerox PARC from universities, industrial labs, and commercial ventures, bringing with them diverse experiences and skills. They typically connected to it with a teletypewriter, though the most avant-garde users may have employed simple text-only video terminals. The two were disciples of J.C.R.

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the session counted among its panelists: Professor John Heywood, Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Sloan Auto Laboratory at MIT. Professor Robert Cervero, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California-Berkeley. Professor Sebastian Thrun, Stanford University. Bandivadekar, A.,

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In the summer of 1956, a group of mathematicians and computer scientists took over the top floor of the building that housed the math department of Dartmouth College. It had 400 light sensors that together acted as a retina, feeding information to about 1,000 "neurons" that did the processing and produced a single output.

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The answer depends in part on whether such cars require a type of sensor called lidar, short for “light detection and ranging.” We and others at our company, Analog Photonics , which spun out of MIT in 2016, hope to break this impasse. It has no moving parts and generates, emits, and receives light with no external hardware.

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Structured VLSI design, now taught in more than 100 universities. And unlike university research laboratories, PARC had one unifying vision: it would develop “the architecture of information.” Pake was executive vice chancellor, provost, and professor of physics at Washington University in St. Laser printers.

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The other program, Modern Electro/Thermochemical Advancements for Light-metal Systems (METALS, earlier post ), provides $32 million to 18 projects to find cost-effective and energy-efficient manufacturing techniques to process and recycle metals for lightweight vehicles. Northwestern University. Pennsylvania State University.

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This Mirror Reverses How Light Travels in Time Nature Physics In an esoteric bit of research this year, a group of researchers based at universities in New York City discovered how to pass a signal through something called a “time interface”—the result being that the entire signal acted like it was moving back in time.

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With the combination of requiring all new light-duty vehicles sold in New York State be zero-emission by 2035, investments in electric vehicles charging stations , and state and federal EV rebates, “ you’re going to see that you have no more excuses ” for not buying an EV, according to New York Governor Kathy Hochul.

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