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NIST awards $7.4M in grants for additive manufacturing research

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NIST is awarding $5 million to the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute (NAMII) in Youngstown, Ohio, which is operated by the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining, for a three-phase collaborative research effort involving 27 companies, universities and national laboratories. NIST is also awarding $2.4

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Video Friday: Floppybot

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ANYbotics ] Most of the world will need to turn on subtitles for this, but it’s cool to see how industrial robots can be used to make art. Agility ] Seeking to instill students with real-life workforce skills through hands-on learning, teachers at Central High School in Louisville, Ky., And here’s the segment, it’s pretty great. [

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DOE Clean Energy Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute awards ~$10M to 10 projects

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The institute received up to $70 million in federal funding from DOE’s Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO) that is matched by $70 million in private cost-share commitments from industry, consortium members, and partners. The selected organizations (and project descriptions) from this first call selection are: University of Connecticut.

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Kentucky-Argonne Partnership to Help Build US Advanced Battery Industry

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The Commonwealth of Kentucky, the University of Kentucky (UK) and University of Louisville (U of L) are partnering with the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory to establish a national Battery Manufacturing R&D Center to help develop and deploy a domestic supply of advanced battery technologies for vehicle applications.

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President Obama announces two new public-private manufacturing innovation institutes; new manufacturing innovation institute competition

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The Institute will achieve this through leadership in pre-competitive advanced research and partnerships across defense, aerospace, automotive, energy, and consumer products industries. There are significant challenges for new lightweight and modern metals to reach widespread commercial production. ThermoCalc; TIMET; Trumpf, Inc.;

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Video Friday: Robo Chameleon

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DARPA SubT Finals – September 21-23, 2021 – Louisville, KY, USA WeRobot 2021 – September 23-25, 2021 – Coral Gables, FL, USA IROS 2021 – September 27-1, 2021 – [Online Event] ROSCon 2021 – October 21-23, 2021 – New Orleans, LA, USA. Research by the University of Minnesota, Duluth. [ DeepRobotics ]. Thanks, Fan! UT Austin ]. iROSA ].

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. Industry-Informed Physics-Based Monitoring for Asset Management and Maintenance Optimization, $500,000 Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, Calif. Louisville, Colo. Solar Energy Industries Association, Washington, D.C. Combustion Research & Flow Technology Inc.,