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OSU & Wilberforce University team claims top spot in year one of the EcoCAR EV Challenge

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The Ohio State (OSU) & Wilberforce University Team has been named the winner of Year One of the EcoCAR Electric Vehicle (EV) Challenge, taking the lead in the four-year collegiate engineering competition. Year One of EcoCAR is all about generating big ideas and developing a strategy for the remainder of the competition.

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Nuclear Fusion’s New Idea: An Off-the-Shelf Stellarator

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Jayme Thornton PPPL researchers say their simpler machine demonstrates a way to build stellarators far more cheaply and quickly, allowing researchers to easily test new concepts for future fusion power plants. According to the lab’s lore, Spitzer came up with the idea while riding a ski lift at Aspen Mountain in 1951.

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SCAD students throw out traditional auto design ideas, create two fully functional EV concept cars – Charged EVs

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At the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) in Low Country, the assignment for industrial design students was fairly straightforward: Build a beautiful concept car—but make it fully functional at the same time. To do this, the students worked with industry mentors and faculty who are well-regarded in the field.

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Ham Radio Inspired This Scranton University Student to Pursue Engineering

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is pursuing an electrical engineering degree at the University of Scranton , in Pennsylvania. The junior is president of the university’s W3USR amateur radio club. The Scranton team competed against other student branches to build and program small robots to navigate a maze in the shortest time possible. “I

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Covariant Announces a Universal AI Platform for Robots

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By building a valuable picking robot that’s deployed across 15 countries with dozens of customers, we essentially have a data collection machine.” Building physics engines turns out to be a very daunting task to really cover every possible thing that can happen in the world,” Abbeel says.

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5 Big Ideas for High-Temperature Superconductors

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“Over the past 15 years, the emphasis has moved toward using [these materials] less as high-temperature superconductors and more as high-field superconductors,” says Venkat Selvamanickam , who directs the Applied Research Hub of the Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston.

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Purdue’s whitest white paint now a Guinness World Record; sub-ambient radiative cooling

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reflective, developed by engineers at Purdue University, has earned a Guinness World Records title for the whitest paint. Such paints are considered to be a potential technology for keeping cities cooler and reducing electricity use; buildings with a coating of this would need to rely far less on energy-hungry air conditioning.

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