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Video Friday: Beyond the Limit

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IEEE SSRR 2023 : 13–15 November 2023, FUKUSHIMA, JAPAN Humanoids 2023 : 12–14 December 2023, AUSTIN, TEXAS, USA Cybathlon Challenges : 02 February 2024, ZURICH, SWITZERLAND Eurobot Open 2024 : 8–11 May 2024, LA ROCHE-SUR-YON, FRANCE Enjoy today’s videos! We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months.

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This Fusion Reactor Is Held Together With Tape

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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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The Essential Vannevar Bush

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Born in 1890 in Massachusetts, he came to prominence as the nation’s top designer of computers while at MIT In the 1930s. Bush was a fount of wisdom, particularly when it came to defining the engineer's role in the industrial research and development enterprise. He can dive under water and come up dry.

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Lotfi Zadeh and the Birth of Fuzzy Logic

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He never considered going into industry, he said, because money was no problem. That enabled him to be financially independent when he came to the United States to enroll in graduate school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge. Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Army Persian Gulf Command.

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CleanFUEL USA partners with Freightliner on new 8.0L propane LPI medium-duty engine

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This partnership expands use of GM’s 8L long-block engine, originally intended for industrial and marine markets, to new on-highway applications of up to 33,000 lb GVW (gross vehicle weight). The Japan Gas Synthesis Co. Conversion kits also will be available to switch medium-duty gasoline vehicles to run on propane.

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The New Supersonic Boom

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Those objections added to the concerns environmentalists were raising about the ozone layer—a scenario seemingly justified a few years later by MIT researchers, who concluded that a future fleet of 500 supersonic airliners would deplete the ozone layer by 16 percent. Boom has stated that its plane will go supersonic only over water.

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Video Friday: Remote Control Burger Crafting

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MIT ] Thanks, Rachel! MIT ] Unboxing and getting started with a TurtleBot 4 robotics learning platform with Maddy Thomson, Robotics Demo Designer from Clearpath Robotics. Stanford BDML ] This is very, very water resistant. DFKI ] Here are some satisfying food service robot videos from FOOMA, a trade show in Japan. ????

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