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NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Back in 2005, before smartphones were generally available, MIT Professor Hari Balakrishnan was so fed up with commuting delays in Boston that he built a mobile system to monitor road conditions. Their research won several awards, and the system was covered by The Boston Globe. We showed that it could work at scale. “I

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DECEMBER 30, 2021

During the past 20 years, deep learning has come to dominate artificial intelligence research and applications through a series of useful commercial applications. It is an appealing approach, but its results were all too often insufficient to build a model of how the biological brain really works.”

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MAY 22, 2019

The Boston Consulting Group predicts that people around the world will take 1 billion flights in air taxis in 2030, once sharing services have also established a presence on fixed routes above the ground; most of those air taxis will be capable of operating without a pilot. Experts expect commercial operations to begin in 2023.

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JULY 1, 2022

With a strong lineage connected to Carnegie Mellon University, we're proud to maintain a presence in this great city. Since then, researchers at SRI have continued to optimize the system to work with today’s commercial robot arms, bringing high dexterity telemanipulation to a wide range of industries. [

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JULY 30, 2023

Oxford takes the handoff In 1976, John Goodenough [left] joined the University of Oxford, where he headed development of the first lithium cobalt oxide cathode. The University of Texas at Austin It was the first of many false starts for the rechargeable lithium battery. But he found no takers. Still, there were problems.

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APRIL 14, 2017

Chicago, Portland, Boston, Seattle, Philadelphia, Denver, Houston, Miami, and Raleigh—and several highway corridors. Electrify America plans to build charging infrastructure that will primarily consist of (1) community charging and (2) a long-distance highway network. Background. As required by Appendix C to the 2.0-Liter

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AUGUST 10, 2021

He was awarded an honorary doctorate in business administration by Indiana University in Bloomington. While there, he suggested the company build more accurate calibration systems. Army for two years after he earned a bachelor's degree in engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. Johnson served in the U.S.

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JANUARY 28, 2022

I’m not sure that this can be commercially sustainable, but I’d absolutely love it if that were so. Tevel ] Researchers from North Carolina State University have demonstrated a new type of flexible, robotic grippers that are able to lift delicate egg yolks without breaking them, and that are precise enough to lift a human hair.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

which is commercializing olefin metathesis technology for renewable fuels and chemicals ( earlier post ), has completed a licensing agreement with XiMo AG, a company founded by renowned chemists Amir H. Vanderslice Millennium Professor of Chemistry at Boston College. Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc., Hoveyda and Richard R.

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JUNE 24, 2013

This new institute is part of a $10-million commitment over the next five years toward building a stronger materials innovation ecosystem. University of Wisconsin-Madison invests $5 million+ in new institute for materials. DOE building on FY12 investments to advance MGI. Harvard debuts database of 2.3

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OCTOBER 17, 2022

There won’t be Scotch tape on the final model,” says Costanzo , as he rearranges the gear in his lab at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), in Richmond. It is also intended to show off the sensor, which is the same type used for commercial electronic noses, or. The University of Manchester. But he does want to offer hope.

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AUGUST 20, 2010

CoalTek, teaming with the University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research in Lexington, Ky., Duke University in Durham, N.C., and the University of North Dakota Energy and Environment Research Center in Grand Forks, N.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Blacksburg, Va.)-Partnering

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JULY 15, 2023

Army Reserve base near Boston, an unusual structure is rising from the rolling hills. Brandon Sorbom , the scientific director of Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) , leads me toward the center of the building’s cross-shaped footprint, weaving among scaffolding, forklifts, and teams of welders and painters. On the site of a former U.S.

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MARCH 11, 2023

The concept behind V2G had gained traction in the late 1990s after California’s landmark zero-emission-vehicle (ZEV) mandate went into effect and compelled automakers to commercialize electric cars. Over time, however, the research focus in bidirectional EV applications shifted from the grid to homes and commercial buildings.

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OCTOBER 26, 2021

government, and PurpleAir , created via crowd-sourcing of commercial sensors. sensor units mounted on buildings to stream data via Wi-Fi to Web-based mapping programs. Sensors that mount on buildings can just plug into a wall outlet. Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University. These particular networks use.

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JULY 7, 2020

University of Colorado Boulder researchers, with colleagues at Boston University, have developed a new optical phased array concept—the serpentine OPA (SOPA)—that could support medium- to long-range lidar. co-author and associate professor of engineering at Boston University. Dostart et al.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2009

In partnership with a consortium of local research institutions, this project deploy smart grid systems at partners’ university campus properties and technology transfer laboratories. Center for the Commercialization of Electric Technologies (TX). (DOE funding $75,161,246, total project value with cost share $150,322,492). 29,561,142.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 27 projects for more than $37 million in funding to accelerate the technological and commercial readiness of emerging marine and hydrokinetic (MHK) technologies, which seek to generate renewable electricity from oceans and free-flowing rivers and streams. DOE Funding: $160,000.

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OCTOBER 3, 2023

Davide Scaramuzza directs the Robotics and Perception group at the University of Zürich. Our basic goal is to build in the skills of an expert pilot into the drone itself, which involves a little bit of hardware. And so one of the things that we think a lot about in how we build our products—we’re a company.

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APRIL 24, 2022

CoSTAR’s pack of quadrupeds, consisting of Spot robots from Boston Dynamics modified with customized autonomy payloads [middle], undergo a hardware check before their final competition run. I think commercialization will happen much faster through SubT than what we would normally expect from a research activity.

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DECEMBER 19, 2021

The quantity of calcium carbonate to be released—about 1 kilogram—won’t be enough to trigger any measurable cooling, and it roughly equals the particle pollution that a large commercial airliner releases every minute of flight, says. But at present, there is no United Nations agency to build a global consensus or U.S. candidate in V.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

It will link 1,000 residential smart meters, 75 commercial meters and plug-in electric vehicle charging sites. - NSTAR Electric & Gas Corporation – The project will demonstrate the use of advanced sensors and monitoring instrumentation networks in downtown Boston to boost reliability and safety.

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MARCH 1, 2023

The people who developed the Alto came to Xerox PARC from universities, industrial labs, and commercial ventures, bringing with them diverse experiences and skills. They typically connected to it with a teletypewriter, though the most avant-garde users may have employed simple text-only video terminals. Community not a hospitable one.”

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The projects selected are located in 25 states, with 50% of projects led by universities, 23% by small businesses, 12% by large businesses, 13% by national labs, and 2% by non-profits. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Development of a Dedicated, High-Value Biofuels Crop The University of Massachusetts, Amherst will develop an.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

A one year update of our ongoing project with Ontario Power Generation (OPG) and RMUS Canada to investigate the capabilities of Boston Dynamics’ Spot robot for autonomous inspection and first response in the power sector. Contoro ] Thanks, Youngmok! UCSD ] Thanks, Liezel!

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MAY 15, 2023

The company also now offers rebates of up to 100% of the cost of chargers installed at commercial and residential sites throughout the state. The companies are also permitted to add a surcharge to customer utility bills to provide additional funding for building the required charging infrastructure.

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MAY 19, 2024

Nearly every day since she was a child, Alex Leow, a psychiatrist and computer scientist at the University of Illinois Chicago, has played the piano. These apps are “providing a service that doesn’t exist,” says Colin Depp , a clinical psychologist and professor at the University of California, San Diego.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2022

It took some 30 years of effort by engineers and computer scientists in universities, government laboratories, and corporate research groups, piggybacking on each other’s work, trying new ideas, repeating each other’s mistakes. Chuck Thacker, then a member of the research staff, advised PARC to hire inventor Jack Hawley to build it.

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MARCH 15, 2013

On 14 March, Mike Sinnett, Vice President and Chief Project Engineer, 787 program provided a technical briefing to media on the set of improvements to the lithium-ion batteries on 787 commercial jetliners. To do so, Boeing is making changes to the battery, to the battery charger, and is building a new enclosure for the battery.

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AUGUST 20, 2023

The latest prototype lidar system from Analog Photonics shows off its capabilities at a busy intersection in Boston. Here we’d like to explain some of the technical challenges we’ve encountered and how very close we are to commercialization. Scanning is an essential aspect of lidar and one of the key challenges of the technology.

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JULY 11, 2023

There are TMS clinics cropping up like mushrooms after rain,” says Veljko Dubljević , a neuroethicist at North Carolina State University, in Raleigh. “We Building on TMS’s Short-Term Effects Perhaps the strongest evidence in favor of TMS for curbing addiction comes from a U.S.-Israeli They may be experimenting on people in that sense.”

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APRIL 21, 2009

Electric car supporters are rising to defend General Motors’ development of the Chevy Volt after the Obama Administration’s automotive task force proclaimed that the car was probably too expensive to be commercially successful in the near future. Supporters of the car say that’s shortsighted. and Chrysler. Whatever B.C.G.’s

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MARCH 25, 2022

On February 11, 1955, an anonymous tip led two New York Police Department detectives and two New York Telephone Company investigators to an apartment on the fourth floor of a residential building at 360 East 55th Street in midtown Manhattan. The two firms, Bristol-Myers and. To be sure, the failings of New York state wiretap law were legion.

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