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NYU Researchers Paving New Path for Robotics

Cars That Think

He recently received an equipment donation from Intuitive Foundation comprising a Da Vinci research kit which is a surgical system that will allow his team to devise means by which a surgeon in one location may be able to operate on a patient located somewhere else—a different city, region or even continent.

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X Prize, Electrathon teams to compete in Green Grand Prix at Watkins Glen International

Green Car Congress

Automotive X Prize teams from New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Indiana will compete at the 7 th Annual Green Grand Prix Friday, April 15, at Watkins Glen International. They may be built from a kit or from scratch. Two of the vehicles are educational entries from Cornell University and West Philadelphia High School.

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Solar Powered Greenius Producing Massive South Bay Energy

Creative Greenius

To put that in perspective for you, if Los Angeles County were a state, it would rank ninth in population behind the states of California, New York, Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, and Michigan. Previous Prius conversion kits have been limited by Toyota programming to a top speed of 34 mph in all-electric mode.

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