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Power and Innovation for the Canadian Surface Combatant

MEM

It offers countless possibilities for ship operators – from storage of all types of cargo, containerised mission modules, to hydraulic robotic arms that will efficiently and safely deploy and retrieve manned/unmanned surface vessels, eliminating the need for a dockside crane.

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Virtual Incision’s mini surgical robot arrives at ISS

Robotics Business Review

A screen grab from a NASA broadcast shows a Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo spacecraft on its way to the International Space Station on Jan. Source: NASA Virtual Incision’s MIRA surgical robot system has made it to the International Space Station (ISS). More about the Virtual Incision MIRA platform The MIRA surgical robot.

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NVIDIA picks 6 noteworthy autonomous systems of 2023

Robotics Business Review

Top row, from left to right: the Ella smart stroller, Soft Robotics’ food packer, and the TM25S. Source: NVIDIA Outside the glare of the klieg lights that ChatGPT commanded this past year, a troupe of autonomous machines nudged forward the frontiers of robotics, according to NVIDIA.

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Dockworkers threaten to strike at key U.S. ports over automation and pay

Fastener News Desk

1, a move that would shut down ports that handle about half the nation’s cargo from ships. Heavier vehicular traffic would be likely at key points around the country as cargo was diverted to West Coast ports, where workers belong to a different union not involved in the strike. East and Gulf Coasts are threatening to strike on Oct.

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Flying cars and hyperloops?

E&T

Belgium reported the average age increasing from 14 to 17 years from 2012 to 2020. One option for kickstarting the use of ammonia as a maritime fuel is to adapt the tankers that carry the gas to plants that make fertiliser: they can simply divert some of the cargo to the fuel lines. Why is ammonia better?

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Vayu Robotics puts delivery robot using AI foundation models on the road

Robotics Business Review

Vayu says the automatic cargo-unloading mechanism in its delivery robots is the first of its kind. Source: Vayu Robotics While e-commerce deliveries are growing, the cost per delivery remains stubbornly high, according to Vayu Robotics Inc. Gopalan was CEO of Velodyne and took that leading lidar supplier public in 2020.

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Investment Trends in Decarbonization

Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

India – Plans to triple its installed renewable energy capacity by 2030 i.e., from 163 GW in 2022 to 500 GW by 2030 USA – Plans to have 100% carbon pollution-free electricity by 2030 [5] Germany – Plans to generate at least 80% of its electricity from renewables by 2050; up from 50% in 2020.