Tag: commission
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California Energy Commission awards Liminal $2.75 million grant
The California Energy Commission (CEC) has approved a $2.75 million grant for Liminal, a battery manufacturing intelligence company, to advance the assembly of its EchoStat platform from manual to mostly-automated factory-ready equipment. EchoStat is an EV battery cell inspection system that uses ultrasound inspection and machine learning analytics to provide manufacturers with previously unavailable insights…
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Challengers in Esmera robotics competition in line to receive €200k each
In the context of the European robotics project Esmera, 12 experiments have now started to solve industry challenges by developing new robotics solutions. The Esmera consortium has chosen the best twelve experiments from 32 proposals that were handed in during the first Open Call in 2018. The solution design by the experiments will be carried…
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Groupe PSA carries out autonomous driving tests in L3Pilot project
Since the start of April, Group PSA’s vehicles equipped with level 3 autonomous driving functions have been operating on open roads in France as part of the European L3Pilot project. Six to eight vehicles will undergo intensive driving tests to validate autonomous functions on dual carriageways. The project is strengthening Groupe PSA’s expertise in the…
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Stop praying to the gods of the free market and roll out the red carpet to robots, urges Labour
The UK Labour Party is urging the government to turn away from “the gods of the free market” and instead roll out the red carpet to our new robot overlords. Or at least that’s what could be inferred from an opinion piece written by the Labour Party’s deputy leader, Tom Watson, who made it clear that he favours mechatronics over abstract…