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  • Research aims to improve gasifier operation for syngas production

    The research will provide a greater understanding of the gasification process to guide optimal design and operation for improved gasifier performance.

  • DOE offers funding for innovative oil and gas technologies

    Selected projects will fall under two DOE Office of Fossil Energy funding opportunity announcements.

  • Ford invests $500 million in EV startup

    Rivian's launch products include a five-passenger pickup and a seven-passenger SUV due out in 2020.

  • What are food-grade bearings?

    Nobody wants to bite into their glazed donut to find out what looks like frosting is actually mixed with bearing grease. Bearings in food and drug processing are subject to extreme environments and manufacturers go to great lengths to ensure that this cannot happen.

  • Free-wheeling ball screws eliminate jamming

    Free-wheeling ball screws offer an alternative to traditional ball screws with soft stops or limit switches.

  • Taxis in Tokyo using facial recognition tech to determine passenger age, gender

    A Japanese e-commerce company is outfitting taxis in Japan with facial recognition technology that targets advertisements to passengers based on their gender and age.

  • Hitachi accelerates its robotic SI push with $1.425 billion deal

    Hitachi will enter the robotic system integrator business in North America, a region that the company said is expected to see a high rate of growth.

  • Startup selling cleaning solution in tablet form to eliminate single-use plastic packaging

    In a bid to cut back on single-use plastics, a startup is selling cleaning solution in tablet form.

  • Researchers use AI to detect corrosion, coating wear in ships, offshore structures

    The American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) together with data company SoftServe and Google Cloud have successfully completed a trial of artificial intelligence (AI) in the detection of coating breakdown and corrosion of offshore structures and ships.

  • Nanotech innovation could make previously unweldable alloys weldable

    According to an article published Jan. 9 in the journal Nature Communications, researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) employed nanotechnology to achieve a crack-free arc weld of 7075 aluminum alloy.

  • Welding and joining dissimilar metals: Part 1

    A variety of factors must be considered when joining dissimilar metals.

  • Robot news anchor makes its debut in Russia

    Viewers called the robot disheveled, unfocused and awkward.

  • Report: High school girls have lower grades, less higher learning if overly exposed to high-achieving boys

    The authors suggest that the reason for the effect is likely a lack of confidence.

  • Turbine addresses unique needs of the oil and gas industry

    Upstream operators in search of a dependable power source are presented with a unique turbine that operates on a range of fuel sources while delivering power quality that mimics grid stability.

  • Brewing company turns to AI, IoT to fix costly production issue

    Some of its bottles on the factory line were being filled with more foam than others, so Sugar Creek Brewing Company turned to AI and IoT sensors to remedy a problem that was costing them roughly $30,000 a month.

  • Engineers create moveable, multi-ton masonry blocks

    Engineers from a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)-led research and design lab have created multi-ton masonry blocks that are moveable by hand.

  • Smart Sensor System for multiple autonomous vehicle applications announced

    The system combines new lidar hardware, AI point cloud algorithms and an IC design to produce a strategy that collects and interprets environment information. Applications include autonomous passenger cars, low-speed autonomous vehicles, high-speed RoboTaxis and vehicle to road (V2R) infrastructure.

  • Beresheet 2 will continue its namesake’s mission

    SpaceIL, the nonprofit organization that designed, built and managed Beresheet's mission, announced plans to try again with Beresheet 2.

  • Researchers using AI and voice analysis to diagnose PTSD

    Researchers from the New York University (NYU) School of Medicine are using an artificial intelligence (AI)-based tool to help diagnose post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in veterans by analyzing their voices.

  • This utility is paying $4,000 a kW for a biomass energy plant

    The plant consists of a bubbling fluidized-bed boiler, a condensing steam turbine generator with an evaporative cooling tower, wood fuel handling system and auxiliary support equipment.

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