article thumbnail

MIT and Lamborghini file patent on new MOF material for supercapacitors

Green Car Congress

The collaboration began three years ago when Automobili Lamborghini joined the MIT-Italy Program, and took a further step forward in 2017 with the launch of two research projects, one with Professor Mircea Dinc? At MIT, the Dinc? Battery materials.

MIT 210
article thumbnail

MIT study: people globally follow a “visitation law”; inverse relationship between distance and frequency of visits

Green Car Congress

A new paper by an MIT team and colleagues in Singapore, China, Italy and Denmark, drawing on global data, finds that people visit places more frequently when they have to travel shorter distances to get there. —Paolo Santi, a research scientist at the Senseable City Lab at MIT and co-author.

MIT 170
article thumbnail

Lamborghini presents electric super sports car design concept, developed in collaboration with MIT labs

Green Car Congress

Automobili Lamborghini, a member of the Volkswagen Group, unveiled its new design concept for a future Lamborghini electric super sports car: the “Lamborghini of the Terzo Millennio”, developed in collaboration with two MIT laboratories. Two MIT labs—the Dinca Research Lab, led by Prof.

MIT 150
article thumbnail

Video Friday: Resilient Bugbots

Cars That Think

Inspired by the hardiness of bumblebees, MIT researchers have developed repair techniques that enable a bug-sized aerial robot to sustain severe damage to the actuators, or artificial muscles, that power its wings—but to still fly effectively. [ MIT ] This robot gripper is called DragonClaw, and do you really need to know anything else?

MIT 110
article thumbnail

Video Friday: Robot Soccer Finals

Cars That Think

The video is recorded in Perugia Italy. [ Paper ] MIT CSAIL grad students speak about what they think is the most important unsolved problem in computer science today. [ The European Robocup Finals 2022, featuring Tech United vs VDL Robotsports. Tech United ] Within the European Union project we aim to autonomously monitor habitats.

MIT 143
article thumbnail

Video Friday: Spot Levels Up

Cars That Think

And we are proud that we have succeeded.” [ VUB ] Based in Italy, Comau is a leading robot manufacturer and global systems integrator. Wing ] MIT Mechanical Engineering students in Professor Sangbae Kim’s class explore why certain physical traits have evolved in animals in the natural world. ESA ] Wing’s AutoLoader for curbside pickup.

article thumbnail

Team shows crowdsourced data from smartphones in cars can help monitor structural integrity of bridges

Green Car Congress

Researchers from the Senseable City Laboratory at MIT report that crowdsourced data from the smartphones of vehicle passengers crossing bridges may help monitor bridge structural integrity. The researchers also successfully applied the method to partially-controlled crowdsourced data collected on a short-span highway bridge in Italy.