The BLEEX/HULC exoskeleton was developed in the City of Berkeley and State of California. There should be Federal stimulus dollars directed to a proposed BLEEX/e-bike electrified transportation system. * Lower medical costs * Help senior citizens stay mobile * Accelerate the electrification of transportation at lower cost than current plans * Reduce gasoline usage * …
Carnival of Space 92 is up in two parts at the Xprize.og Launchpad. You have to open your browser wide or scroll over to the right in order to get the scroll bar for the article which is inside some kind of frame. This site provided its article (by Joseph Friedlander) on four large launch …
297 page pdf that discusses a lot of the issues around making exaflop supercomputers The latest petaflop supercomputers use 3-7 megawatts of power. Managing power issues is one of the key challenges for future exaflop supercomputers. The energy challenges to exascale computers were discussed at the recent SC08 conference There are four challenges where current …
Rodney Brooks, co-founder and CTO of iRobot, is leaving his iRobot post to found his own robotics company, Heartland Robotics. Heartland Robotics, based in Cambridge, Mass., will focus on the manufacture of industrial worker robots. “I want to effect a powerful evolution in the world’s labor markets, and my current focus is to develop low-cost …
Oil supply is running on a streak of positive news after a lot of negative news pushed oil prices up. Saudi Arabia apparently hit its target of 9.7 million barrels a day in July. There is a steady recovery in oil production from the Gulf of Mexico, where Hurricane Katrina demolished rigs and set back …
This site had published an article one week ago about creating robotic car exclusive zones in cities to enable a faster deployment of robotic cars. Brad Templeton has written up several articles about the advantages of robotic cars for revamping the transportation system. Brad’s robocar mainpage. Brad looks at the myth of green public transit. …
The US Department of Energy (DoE) is planning to build a very high temperature gas-cooled reactor (VHTR) at Idaho National Laboratory, with the prime objective of supplying heat at about 900°C. This heat could be used to generate electricity, or for other industrial processes such as hydrogen production or water desalination at a neighbouring facility. …