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JUNE 26, 2023

With the automotive industry now keen on propulsion systems that don’t emit a lot of carbon, we’ve seen decades of manufacturers toying with alternative fuels. Amogy, a startup founded by four MIT graduates, even revealed an ammonia-electric semi truck at the start of 2023 and had previously modified a John Deere tractor to run on the fuel.

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AUGUST 17, 2021

John Deutch, an emeritus Institute Professor at MIT. Tom Griffin specializes in identifying high-impact technology investment opportunities in the manufacturing sector for Breakthrough Energy Ventures. He has served as Chairman of the Department of Chemistry, Dean of Science, and Provost.

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APRIL 30, 2014

The energy is stored in the liquid metals that want to react with one another but can do so only by transferring ions across the electrolyte, which results in the flow of electric current out of the battery. Ambri announced the opening of its prototype cell manufacturing facility in Marlborough, MA in the fall of 2013.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2017

The new camera records the changes in light intensity between scenes at nanosecond intervals, much faster than conventional video, and it stores the images in a data format that is many times smaller as well. Chen and his researchers have spun off a start-up company named Hillhouse Tech to commercialize the new camera technology.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

The semi-solid thick electrode is a material science innovation originating in Dr. Yet-Ming Chiang’s lab at MIT. (Dr. Using thick electrodes, the cell also stores more energy, bettering the performance of the battery as well as its cost. Chiang, one of the founders of A123 Systems, is a co-founder and chief scientist for 24M.)

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JUNE 20, 2010

Researchers at MIT have developed a new carbon nanotube electrode material for a Li-ion battery based on redox reactions of functional groups on the surfaces of the nanotubes. Funding for the work was provided by the Dupont-MIT Alliance; the US Office of Naval Research; and the MRSEC Program of the National Science Foundation.

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DECEMBER 31, 2023

Helion Energy Fusion startups Zap Energy and Helion Energy have big ambitions and relatively modest facilities in Everett, Washington, better known as the site where Boeing employs 30,000 people in one of the world’s largest manufacturing facilities. meters long, weigh 62 kilograms, and store 3 kilowatt-hours.

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JUNE 22, 2015

Yet-Ming Chiang, 24M’s Chief Scientist, the company is leveraging existing, preferred energy storage chemistry but using a new cell design with semi-solid (a mixture of solid and liquid phases) thick electrodes and manufacturing innovations to deliver what it says will be up to a 50% reduction in current Li-ion costs. (Dr. Manufacturing.

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JULY 25, 2016

An international team from MIT, Argonne National Laboratory and Peking University has demonstrated a lab-scale proof-of-concept of a new type of cathode for Li-air batteries that could overcome the current drawbacks to the technology, including a high potential gap (>1.2 V)

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JUNE 24, 2013

The Obama Administration and academic and industry partners announced a series of commitments in support of the Materials Genome Initiative (MGI, earlier post ), a public-private endeavor that aims to cut in half the time it takes to develop novel materials that can fuel advanced manufacturing.

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MAY 26, 2011

In contrast to previous flow batteries, the SSFC stores energy in suspensions of solid storage compounds to and from which charge transfer is accomplished via dilute yet percolating networks of nanoscale conductors. Source: Duduta et al. Click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Affectiva was cofounded in 2009 by Rana el Kaliouby and Rosalind Picard of the MIT Media Lab, who had specialized in " affective computing "—defined as computing systems that recognize and respond to human emotions. What's more, these systems could process data in real time, removing the need even to store information locally.

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APRIL 30, 2010

This process is less than 1% efficient at converting sunlight to stored chemical energy. The aerobic microbe has been engineered at MIT and is capable of converting a variety of organic compounds into oil, from which biodiesel may be produced. The project also will develop a chemical method to transform butanol into jet fuel.

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MARCH 27, 2022

So they required an exacting manufacturing process. Naval Ordnance Laboratory , in Maryland, had figured out how to manufacture this alloy, which was soon marketed by an outfit called Arnold Engineering Co. In the late 1940s, researchers immediately recognized the ability of the new magnetic materials to store data.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Affectiva was cofounded in 2009 by Rana el Kaliouby and Rosalind Picard of the MIT Media Lab, who had specialized in " affective computing "—defined as computing systems that recognize and respond to human emotions. What's more, these systems could process data in real time, removing the need even to store information locally.

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MARCH 5, 2014

Researchers at MIT have devised a simple, soluble metal oxide system to capture and transform CO 2 into useful organic compounds. In theory, the system could allow researchers to create a cartridge that would temporarily store carbon dioxide emitted by vehicles. —Knopf et al.

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DECEMBER 8, 2010

Using TMV, the researchers can greatly increase the electrode surface area and its capacity to store energy and enable fast charge/discharge times. TMV becomes inert during the manufacturing process; the resulting batteries do not transmit the virus.

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OCTOBER 4, 2022

Research Specialist, MIT Media Lab. And this could come from behind-the-scenes use cases for robot manipulation, in warehouses, retail stores, food preparation, and manufacturing. The electric motors with the battery support could make a very good tool for academic research. BACK TO TOP ↑ ]. Kate Darling. BACK TO TOP ↑ ].

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JANUARY 22, 2022

Its story began a decade earlier, in 1997, at the MIT Media Lab , when it was created by two students, J.D. They came up with some early products that targeted shelf labels for brick-and-mortar retail stores and also for signage. The first official batch of Kaleido displays rolled off the manufacturing line in late 2019.

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APRIL 22, 2016

Electric fuel cost is a fraction of gasoline or diesel fossil fuel cost, even at a time when petroleum prices are temporarily reduced due to geopolitical manipulations and manufacturing costs. MIT News 15 Jan 2015. [ Slow Level 1 charging [ 11 ] should be used to recharge PHEVLER batteries whenever possible.

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APRIL 20, 2024

In 1965, Larry Roberts, then at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory , connected one computer in Massachusetts to another in California over a telephone line. Kahn postponed his planned return to MIT and continued to work on expanding this network. They hired me to run a hundred-million-dollar program on automated manufacturing.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2021

Our lab, the Responsive Environments Group at MIT, has been working for well over a decade on embedding distributed sensor networks into flexible substrates. In this experiment, funded by the MIT Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative , the samples aren't being powered. To produce our fabric, we worked with space-textile manufacturer.

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MAY 22, 2017

Blockchains and distributed ledgers may enable pooling data from vehicle owners, fleet managers, and manufacturers to shorten the time for reaching this goal, thereby bringing forward the safety, efficiency and convenience benefits of autonomous driving technology.

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MAY 17, 2023

Best known as a robotics researcher, academic, and entrepreneur, Brooks is also an authority on AI: he directed the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT until 2007, and held faculty positions at Carnegie Mellon and Stanford before that. It takes time. Like the self-driving cars. I’m really hopeful about that.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2012

economical to store or transport. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will develop a. deployed remotely, MIT’s reformer could be used for small, remote sources of gas. Improved Manufacturing for High-Performance Magnets. manufacture permanent magnets that are both stronger and. Ceramatec, Inc.

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APRIL 12, 2017

ChargePoint’s stance is bolstered by a new MIT study that suggests , in part, that electric cars that plug into the grid, could, collectively, act as a massive “virtual battery” for grid energy storage. MIT: Utilities and the virtual battery. Electric vehicles can provide a big help, he suggested, all the while tied to driver needs.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

production of oil, which is stored in seeds and is convertible to. is one of the most energy dense forms of stored energy in. engineer sugarcane and sorghum to produce and store oil, a. manufacturing process that, if successful, has the potential to. breakthroughs in superconducting wire manufacturing process.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

The other program, Modern Electro/Thermochemical Advancements for Light-metal Systems (METALS, earlier post ), provides $32 million to 18 projects to find cost-effective and energy-efficient manufacturing techniques to process and recycle metals for lightweight vehicles. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. University of Utah. 3,121,400.

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JUNE 4, 2022

In 1969 Xerox had just bought Scientific Data Systems (SDS), a mainframe computer manufacturer. A memory capable of storing all the information for a single video frame; the contents of a frame buffer can be controlled by special software to produce or modify images. with another ex-PARC employee to manufacture and market the Koalapad.

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APRIL 21, 2009

2010 Prius designed to be manufactured with NiMH or Lithium batteries. However," he continued, "If carmakers decide not to take advantage of this offer, AFS Trinity intends to raise the funds to begin modifying existing hybrids or manufacture its own 150 mpg SUVs and, eventually, 250 mpg sedans. Marketwatch ).

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APRIL 16, 2009

One wonders if the recent headway at MIT in building lithium ion cells using ?virus? It was a Manufacturing Failure, as GM NEVER planned to build the car in Volume, so No Economies of Scale were ever achieved. Then consider that in order to actually go any farther than the neighbood store, one still had to have ANOTHER car.

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