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MARCH 11, 2024

With RFM-1, it’s the same idea: Training on lots of different kinds of manipulation—different robots, different objects, and so on—means that any single kind of manipulation will be that much more capable. “It It has always been our long term plan to be a robotics foundation model company,” says Chen.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2024

SCAD’s industrial design program creates hands-on learning experiences that no other university does, and the building of these electric vehicles is a prime example,” Ronchetti said.

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OCTOBER 2, 2022

In 2012, with California in the midst of a severe drought, Schneider, then a mechanical engineering graduate student at Stanford University , once again tossed out a “cool idea.” The general idea is really simple,” Schneider says. “A A lot of people have said they also thought of this idea.

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AUGUST 20, 2021

But from listening to what Elon Musk said today, I don't think he has any idea what getting humanoid robots to do useful stuff actually involves. They look for things that cars need to understand, and they have absolutely no idea about anything else, which can cause all kinds of problems for them. Not impossible, no.

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Get Electric Vehicle

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Here is a collection of the project ideas related to the electric vehicle. We have published a video “ Top 75 electric vehicle related project ideas ” on our YouTube channel “ Get Electric Vehicle ” Now, here is a collection of the comments and responses to those comments in that video. Thank you.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2012

NASA and the National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST) are sponsoring the second in a series of regional public workshops to gather ideas and suggestions on the design of the proposed National Network for Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI). The workshop will be held 9 July at the Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland.

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MARCH 14, 2014

BASF has established the research initiative “Network for Advanced Materials Open Research” ( NAO ) together with seven leading universities and research institutes in China, Japan and South Korea. The cooperation has a long-term focus, with ideas and projects developed and established jointly by the partners.

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DECEMBER 8, 2018

As British Airways looks towards its Centenary next year, the airline, in collaboration with Cranfield University, has challenged academics from across the UK to develop a sustainable alternative fuel which could power a commercial aircraft on a long-haul flight, carrying up to 300 customers with zero net emissions.

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DECEMBER 14, 2022

Led by physicist John Nuckolls, who later served as LLNL director from 1988 to 1994, this idea became inertial confinement fusion, kicking off more than 60 years of research and development in lasers, optics, diagnostics, target fabrication, computer modeling and simulation and experimental design.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

GM has launched the GM Innovation Challenge at four major universities, recruiting student teams to develop new uses for additive manufacturing (3D printing) and augmented reality (e.g., devices similar to Google Glass) in manufacturing. —Kurt Wiese, vice president of Global Manufacturing Engineering.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 17, 2023

As a member of the Kappa Sigma chapter at Boston University , he learned leadership and communications skills while accepting different roles. When Joseph Greene was inducted into IEEE–Eta Kappa Nu almost a decade ago, the undergraduate EE student never imagined the impact IEEE-HKN would have on his life.

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AUGUST 13, 2020

In addition to conventional product development processes, FUSO has been conducting a variety of initiatives inside and outside the company to encourage innovative product ideas that address social needs and challenges. Through these events, more than 100 ideas to date have been generated.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Students from Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) covered a distance of 875 km (544 miles) last week without recharging in the solar?powered Solar Team Eindhoven came up with the idea of a solar-powered family car around one-and-a-half years ago. powered family car which they have developed themselves. Earlier post.)

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OCTOBER 20, 2021

reflective, developed by engineers at Purdue University, has earned a Guinness World Records title for the whitest paint. Credit: Purdue University/Joseph Peoples. The idea was to create paint that would reflect sunlight away from a building. An ultra-white paint incorporating barium sulfate (BaSO 4 ) particles that is up to 98.1%

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JULY 8, 2022

It’s an ideal location for JWST to observe the universe without obstruction and with minimal orbital adjustments. Menzel can remember, for instance, ideas for laser-based optical systems that were invariably rejected. “I It’s a point of gravitational equilibrium located about 1.5

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JANUARY 27, 2021

These universities join MIT, Stanford and the University of Michigan which have worked with TRI over the last five years to expand the body of research into artificial intelligence (AI) with the goal of amplifying the human experience. To get to the best ideas, collaboration is critical. Columbia University.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The Phase 1 semifinalists identified an impactful idea or solution to drive down costs of lithium extraction and, ultimately, help develop environmentally friendly, domestic sources of lithium. The Phase 1 semifinalists are: Boston University – Pober-Strauss. George Washington University – Ellexco. Rice University – LiSED.

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DECEMBER 6, 2011

BASF SE has established a research initiative called Joint Research Network on Advanced Materials and Systems (JONAS) in collaboration with the universities of Strasbourg, France; Freiburg, Germany, and ETH Zurich, Switzerland. That is precisely what we hope to achieve through close cooperation with these top universities.

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AUGUST 5, 2013

The Academic Senate of the University of California has passed an Open Access Policy, ensuring that future research articles authored by faculty at all 10 campuses of the UC will be made available to the public at no charge. It follows more than 175 other universities who have adopted similar so-called “green” open access policies.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

It had “some surprisingly creative ideas,” he says, but those good ideas were vastly outnumbered by bad ones. Lu, a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of British Columbia , collaborated on the project with several other academics, as well as with researchers from the buzzy Tokyo-based startup Sakana AI.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

This is a sponsored article brought to you by Khalifa University of Science and Technology. Khalifa University will be hosting IROS 2024 to highlight the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region’s rapidly advancing capabilities in the robotics and intelligent transport systems. and South Korea (173 each).

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APRIL 25, 2021

Researchers from the University of Houston, with colleagues at the University of São Paolo in Brazil, have demonstrated how copper-resistant bacterium from a copper mine in Brazil convert CuSO 4 (copper sulfate) ions into zero-valent Cu (metallic copper). An open-access paper on their research is published in Science Advances.

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MAY 13, 2021

Swap this technological dead-end out for better batteries, improved superchargers and more universal EV charging standards.

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JUNE 30, 2015

Twenty-one years later, the ARC, which operates as a consortium of six universities [ 2 ] collaborating with partners from both industrial and government sectors, gathered once again on the University of Michigan’s North Campus for its 21 st Annual Program Review. Footnotes. [ 1 ] Gilbert, D., Automotive Research Center.”

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APRIL 28, 2022

Purdue University and Duke Energy plan to explore the feasibility of using advanced nuclear energy to meet the campus community’s long-term energy needs. Chiang is the executive vice president of Purdue University for strategic initiatives and the John A. McCarthy Head of the School of Nuclear Engineering at Purdue University.

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AUGUST 9, 2022

Queensland University of Technology (QUT) robotics researchers working with Ford Motor Company have found a way to tell an autonomous vehicle which cameras to use when navigating. The key idea here is to learn which cameras to use at different locations in the world, based on previous experience at that location.

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JANUARY 14, 2022

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO), in collaboration with the Algae Foundation and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, announced a new AlgaePrize competition for high school through graduate students studying at a US-based high school, college, community college, university, and/or graduate school.

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AUGUST 17, 2022

The axial flux motor is the brain child of Tim Woolmer, who came up with the idea while a Ph.D candidate at Oxford University. When Mercedes purchased UK-based YASA last year, it opened the door for axial flux electric motors to find a place in mass produced production vehicles. “I was five weeks into my […].

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NOVEMBER 22, 2016

The Volkswagen and BASF international “Science Award Electrochemistry 2016” goes to Dr. William Chueh from Stanford University. Dr. Martin Ebner received his PhD in Material Science at the ETH University Zurich. The winners of our Science Award are an excellent example of innovative and creative ideas in this field.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Ford and Purdue University researchers are working to develop a new, patent-pending charging station cable that could combine with in-development vehicle charging technology, making it even easier for people to transition to EVs with seamless re-charging. Hollander Family professor of mechanical engineering, Purdue University.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2023

CREATE will collect outside-the-box ideas from businesses, laboratories, and universities for a wide range of energy technologies, so we can pursue as many energy solutions as possible. —ARPA-E Director Evelyn N.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Engineering are seeking to improve the efficiency of jet engines by identifying and developing thermoelectric materials that can harness excess energy. UVA is one of only three universities in North America that participate in the Rolls-Royce University Technology Center Network.

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APRIL 22, 2023

The consortium of eight European partners in the HEFT project is led by Mondragan University and includes GKN Automotive. A new €4-million research project funded by the EU is seeking to develop a lower-cost, more efficient and power-dense permanent magnet eMotor for electric vehicles (EVs).

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MAY 26, 2022

—James Turner, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Clean Combustion Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). The newly formed organization will host a series of meetings of its members to exchange research results, insights, and ideas. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Like many innovators, Hagit Messer-Yaron had a life-changing idea while doing something mundane: Talking with a colleague over a cup of coffee. The IEEE Life Fellow, who in 2006 was head of Tel Aviv University ’s Porter School of Environmental Studies , was at the school’s cafeteria with a meteorological researcher.

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JUNE 22, 2021

Scientists at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, together with colleagues from Boston University (BU) and Wayne State University (WSU), have now succeeded in preventing dendrite formation and thus at least doubling the lifetime of a lithium metal battery. The research team has applied for a patent for their method.

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JUNE 28, 2024

I have no idea, but it seems like we haven’t gotten to the end of things yet because now there’s a quadruped with cameras on the bottom of its feet. Sensorized feet is not a new idea; it’s pretty common for quadrupedal robots to have some kind of foot-mounted force sensor to detect ground contact. But how far can you take this?

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