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Video Friday: GR-1

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Humanoids 2023 : 12–14 December 2023, AUSTIN, TEXAS Cybathlon Challenges : 2 February 2024, ZURICH, SWITZERLAND Eurobot Open 2024 : 8–11 May 2024, LA ROCHE-SUR-YON, FRANCE Enjoy today’s videos! Ayato Kanada, an assistant professor at Kyushu University, wants to build woodpecker-inspired Doc Ock tentacles. Also, woodpeckers are weird.

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BASF and Volkswagen present Science Award Electrochemistry to Dr. Vanessa Wood for work on Li-ion batteries

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The international “ Science Award Electrochemistry ” from Volkswagen and BASF ( earlier post ) goes this year to Dr. Vanessa Wood , Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETH Zürich), Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, Switzerland. García, R. and Wood, V.

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Purdue, EPFL team propose Hydricity concept for integrated co-production of H2 and electricity from solar thermal energy

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Researchers from Purdue University and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland are proposing a new integrated process involving the co-production of hydrogen and electricity from solar thermal energy—a concept they label “hydricity”. —Gençer et al.

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Video Friday: Autonomous Car Drifting, Aerial-Aquatic Drone, and Jet-Powered Robot

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Goh, Ufuk Topcu, and Avinash Balachandran from University of Texas at Austin, USA, and Toyota Research Institute, Los Altos, Calif., Samuel Au from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, and Multiscale Medical Robotics Centre, Hong Kong. body length per second (BL/s), faster than most reported soft crawlers in mm/s and BL/s.

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Nasir Ahmed: An Unsung Hero of Digital Media

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It has changed the music business—from production to distribution to the way fans buy, collect, and store their favorite songs. Nasir did just that, leaving India that fall for graduate school at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. Only a few image compression standards not using DCT exist today,” he adds.

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New flexible MOF for enhanced adsorbed natural gas storage on vehicles

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An international team of researchers led by a group at the University of California, Berkeley has developed a flexible metal-organic framework (MOF) material for enhanced adsorption and desorption of natural gas (CH 4 ). Last year, however, a study by UC Berkeley’s Berend Smit found that rigid MOFs have a limited capacity to store methane.

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Video Friday: May the Fourth be With You

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KIMLAB ] The Star Wars universe does have a thing for gold legged robots. Agility Robotics ] Oh My DOT is a soup noodle specialty store where you can enjoy a combination of 10 types of unique soup base called “Soup DOT” and 3 types of noodles to enjoy your favorite taste. Happy May the 4th from KIMLAB!