Engineers program marine robots to take calculated risks

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We know far less about the Earth’s oceans than we do about the surface of the moon or Mars. The sea floor is carved with expansive canyons, towering seamounts, deep trenches, and sheer cliffs, most of which are considered too dangerous or inaccessible for autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV) to navigate.

But what if the reward for traversing such places was worth the risk?

MIT engineers…

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Movement really moves Richard Fineman, a fourth-year PhD student in the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology. Using wearable sensors and a range of complex modeling tools, Fineman is able to measure and understand a body in motion in unprecedented ways. He is using what he’s learning to advance…

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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a bill Nov. 29 to create a statewide energy storage target, more than five months after it unanimously passed the legislature.

Depending on how it’s executed, the target could reduce regulatory barriers to storage development and spur adoption of this technology, which stands to help New York’s effort to increase clean energy…

By James Ayre Toyota will be investing 400 million złoty (around $113 million) into the manufacturing of a new 1.5 liter engine, to be used in its hybrid vehicles, at its facility in the city of Jelcz-Laskowice (in southwestern Poland), the company has revealed

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By James Ayre The new season of the Formula E all-electric racing series is nearly here … with just a day or so left until the races of the last series (before a major overhaul of the vehicles and protocols used begins)

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