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What Texas Instruments’ Little Professor Can Teach Us

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This Texas Instruments calculator, called the Little Professor, debuted in 1976 and proved an instant hit. A 9-volt battery powered the Texas Instrument TMS0975NL integrated circuit and the eight-digit LED display. Many years ago, my 7-year-old sister had a calculator just like this, and I desperately wanted one, too.

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Study: PM2.5 pollution reduces global life expectancy by more than one year

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pollution comes from power plants, cars and trucks, fires, agriculture and industrial emissions. Led by Joshua Apte in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, the team used data from the Global Burden of Disease Study to measure PM 2.5 air pollution exposure and its consequences in 185 countries.

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Video Friday: Peep Handling

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The grasper can pick up a wide range of sizes and shape in power grasps and move them around in different axes without lifting the fingers. The ability to re-orient objects in a power grasp provides unique value to both industrial and domestic applications. Happy Peep Consumption Day! Sigh, I wish my fingers could do that.

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This Rice University Professor Developed Cancer-Detection Technology

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in 1990, she joined the University of Texas at Austin as a professor of biomedical engineering. She left the University of Texas in 2005 to join Rice University. A bridge between EE and health care Richards-Kortum joined IEEE while teaching at the University of Texas. “I After earning her Ph.D.

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Air Products heralds successful operation of project to capture CO2 from hydrogen production for use in enhanced oil recovery

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Air Products’ carbon capture project in Port Arthur, Texas captures 90% of the CO 2 via Vacuum Swing Adsorption from 2 steam-methane reformers (SMRs) yielding 1,000,000 tons CO 2 /year. Air Products has also worked on other carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) projects around the world for the power market. Click to enlarge.

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Video Friday: Resilient Bugbots

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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?

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Video Friday: Liquid Metal Bubble Actuator

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CoRL 2022 : 14–18 December 2022, AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND ICRA 2023 : 29 May–2 June 2023, LONDON RoboCup 2023 : 4–10 July 2023, BORDEAUX, FRANCE RSS 2023 : 10–14 July 2023, DAEGU, KOREA IEEE RO-MAN 2023 : 28–31 August 2023, BUSAN, KOREA Enjoy today’s videos! We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months.

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