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International consortium working on new sensor technology to measure real-world, in-use vehicle emissions

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Bergmann expects low-cost remote sensors for emission measurement to be ready for series production by the end of the 2022 project at the latest. However, he already refers to the first promising tests at the institute in which conventional tuning forks are used. —Alexander Bergmann.

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Civil Maps debuts augmented reality maps for self-driving cars

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Civil Maps recently held a series of test drive experiences in vehicles equipped with its AR display and proprietary localization technology, showing passengers how self-driving cars using Civil Maps technology observe and navigate complex driving environments in real time.

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Video Friday: Loco-Manipulation

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In this work, we present LocoMan, a dexterous quadrupedal robot with a novel morphology to perform versatile manipulation in diverse constrained environments. However, the overactuated locomotion modality employed by snake robots allows for a unique blend of object manipulation through locomotion, referred to as loco-manipulation.

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Global study shows uneven urbanization among large cities in the last two decades

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Due to the rapid economic growth in the study period, China invested a large amount of resources into infrastructure construction for advancing the urban living environment. In 2018, the country has 19% of the total BUA of large cities in the world.

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ARPA-E adds five new funding topics to FOA to advance critical energy innovation

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However, operation in an oceanic environment also includes specific challenges, such as corrosion, ecological considerations, potentially high capital and operating expenditures due to offshore implementation, and the like. Finally, DOC represents a direct reversal of ocean acidification caused by anthropogenic CO 2 emissions.

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Cornell team develops new inexpensive stereo-camera method to detect objects for self-driving cars; pseudo-LiDAR

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The Cornell team found that analyzing the captured images from a bird’s-eye view rather than the more traditional frontal view more than tripled their accuracy, making stereo camera a viable and low-cost alternative to LiDAR. Proposed two-step pipeline for image-based 3D object detection.

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ARPA-E to award $27M for advanced nuclear reactor systems operational technology: GEMINA

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These projects will work to develop digital twin technology to reduce O&M costs in the next generation of nuclear power plants. Advanced nuclear reactors have the potential to provide reliable and low-cost clean power to millions of American homes. SSR-W is a low overnight-capital plant design, targeting a e build cost.