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How to Build EV Motors Without Rare Earth Elements

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Government agencies, companies, and universities are working on this challenge, oftentimes in collaborative efforts, in virtually all industrialized countries. kilograms in the 2004 Prius to about 0.5 Department of Energy’s U.S. Drive Technologies Consortium. kg in the 2017 Prius.

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Video Friday: ICRA Turns 40

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By Adam Hung, Uksang Yoo, Jonathan Francis, Jean Oh, and Jeffrey Ichnowski from CMU Robotics Insittute [ Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute ] Suction-based robotic grippers are common in industrial applications due to their simplicity and robustness, but [they] struggle with geometric complexity. By Patrick O’Brien, Jakub F.

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Pioneer of Google’s Data Centers Dies at 58

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They house hundreds of thousands of computer servers and disk drives and have brought cloud computing, more powerful search engines, and faster Internet service. Barroso was born in Brazil and earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in 1989 in electrical engineering from Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro.

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Li-ion battery maker Boston-Power announces $125M in new financing; focus on and support from China

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Boston-Power, Inc., Existing Boston-Power investors Oak Investment Partners and Foundation Asset Management (FAM) also participated in the round. As part of its plans, Boston-Power is establishing an R&D and EV battery engineering facility in China. Reorganizing. Earlier post.).

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Radar Technology Pioneer Merrill Skolnik Dies at 94

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While there, he taught a course on radar at Northeastern University , in Boston. in engineering from Johns Hopkins University , in Baltimore. He served as the 1988 president of the IEEE Power & Energy Society. He was the 1990–1991 Division VII director, and he directed the IEEE Foundation from 1999 to 2004.

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Former Berkeley Dean of Engineering David A. Hodges Dies at 85

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Hodges Former dean of engineering Life Fellow, 85; died 13 November Hodges, who was dean of engineering at the University of California, Berkeley , conducted pioneering research in IC design and semiconductor manufacturing. He also laid the groundwork for the university’s bioengineering department.

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MIT Professor’s IoT Sensors Make Roads Safer

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Hari Balakrishnan Employer MIT Title Professor Member grade Fellow Alma maters Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and the University of California, Berkeley He and his research team at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory developed CarTel, short for car telematics. We showed that it could work at scale. “I

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