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Ford to build new EV and battery plants in Tennessee & Kentucky; $11.4B total investment in two mega-sites; 129 GWh/year total

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The assembly plant will use always-on cloud-connected technologies to drive vast improvements in quality and productivity. Despite its size, the assembly plant at Blue Oval City is designed to have as minimal an impact as possible on the surrounding environment—and even to generate positive impacts. BlueOvalSK Battery Park.

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12 Robotics Teams Will Hunt For (Virtual) Subterranean Artifacts

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Last week, DARPA announced the twelve teams who will be competing in the Virtual Track of the DARPA Subterranean Challenge Finals , scheduled to take place in September in Louisville , KY. The robots and the environment may be virtual, but the prize money is very real, with $1.5

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Segway Navimow debuts X3 Series robot lawn mower that covers up to 2.5 acres without perimeter wires

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Presentations of this new model in the United States begin today at the Equip Expo in Louisville, Kentucky through October 18, with pre-orders only open to dealers and distributors at the moment. This allows it to keep on course and keep its performance precise, even in environments where maintaining its signal can prove challenging.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Remote Area Modular Monitoring for Critical Facilities, $300,000 Embedded Planet, Cleveland, Ohio Simulation Tool for Energy-Efficient Connected and Automated Vehicle Control Development, $600,000 Hyundai America Technical Center, Superior Township, Mich. Louisville, Colo. El Centro, Calif. Idaho National Laboratory. Tustin, Calif.

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Commercial Space Stations Approach Launch Phase

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Add to that autonomy and redundancy that so many mission-critical functions will demand, as well as high bandwidth communications required to return data and allow streaming and connectivity for visitors.

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Q&A: Inside DARPA’s Subterranean Challenge

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Deep below the Louisville, Ky., DARPA designed the competition to advance practical robotics in extreme conditions, based around three distinct underground environments: human-made tunnels, the urban underground, and natural caves. A series of three preliminary circuit events would give teams experience with each environment.

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DOE Clean Energy Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute awards ~$10M to 10 projects

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The aim of this project is to develop Smart Manufacturing Platform-ready tools for the reliable, profitable, and energy-efficient operation of a cryogenic air-separation unit, rigorously test these tools in cyber-physical environment, and deploy some of them to efficiently operate in a commercial air-separation plant.