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Nissan appoints Saurabh Vatsa as Deputy Managing Director  | Autocar Professional

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Prior to Stellantis, Saurabh worked with General Motors (GM) for over two decades including long term assignments in South Korea among several key leadership roles within the company.

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Video Friday: Googly Eye

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CHI 2023 ] This video captures a series of experiments carried out at West Virginia University on how to rescue a stuck planetary rover with another rover. Mobot ] This Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute (CMU RI) seminar is presented by JPL’s Vandi Verma, on “Mars Robots and Robotics at NASA JPL.”

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HALO research aircraft measuring the emissions of megacities in EmeRGe project

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The University of Bremen is the scientific base of the international project known as EMeRGe (Effect of Megacities on the transport and transformation of pollutants on the Regional and Global scales). Burrows, the Principal Investigator of the mission and a professor at the Institute of Environmental Physics at the University of Bremen.

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The Case for Nuclear Cargo Ships

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based TerraPower and London- and Italy-based Newcleo should be safer and simpler to operate than conventional reactors. Vard Group is part of NuProShip , a consortium of the Norwegian maritime authority, universities, shipbuilders, and shipping companies that aims to develop a Generation IV reactor for marine vessels.

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The U.S.-China Chip Ban, Explained

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along with several other countries, including South Korea and Taiwan) placed Russia under a chip embargo. Most chip trade and chip production in China is unimpacted,” says Christopher Miller , a historian who studies the semiconductor trade at Tufts University. Previously, the U.S But none of these prior U.S.

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Video Friday: Reflex Grasping

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This short video shows an actuator from Ed Habtour at the University of Washington, modeled after the vertebrae of sea birds and snakes. [ Animals (or at least, many animals) are squishy for a reason–it helps to manage safe environmental contact. Let’s make all robots squishy! Paper ] Thanks, Pham! UW ] Thanks, Sarah!

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Video Friday: May the Fourth be With You

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KIMLAB ] The Star Wars universe does have a thing for gold legged robots. Happy May the 4th from KIMLAB! Botston Dynamics ] SkyMul uses robots for rebar tying, which is an important job in construction that is deeply unpleasant (and sometimes damaging) for humans to do. SkyMul ] Thanks, Eohan!