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Firehawk’s rocket engines and 3D-printed fuel hit testing milestones ahead of first launch

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The breakthrough made by CEO Will Edwards and chief scientist Ron Jones was to give that fuel a structure and 3D print it in a specially engineered matrix. The structured, semisolid fuel is more stable and easier to transport than other fuels, and burns in a very predictable way.

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SAP aims for more digital and resilient supply chains

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The number of complaints would also fall as a result, and the condition and maintenance of systems would be optimized, the provider said. While production itself is fully automated—order-controlled from the SAP system—things are different in the warehouse, as manual processes with forklift drivers continue to work more profitably.

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Enterprise IT moves forward — cautiously — with generative AI

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And in the transportation industry, he says, “AI can directly or indirectly impact the avoidance of transport, the steering of transport, and the management of transport.” Normally Cenkl reviews résumés and searches by skills tags to find the right people for a project. That’s incredibly powerful.” Mitre Corp.

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Covariant, MassRobotics and The Engine discuss the road from lab to market at TC Sessions: Robotics

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Robotics startups require expensive equipment — like industrial-grade sensors, 3D printers and controlled environments — for building and testing prototypes. Abbeel’s work has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, BBC, Rolling Stone, Wired, Tech Review and (of course) TechCrunch.

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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

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Besides surgery, the hospital is also investing in robotics for the transportation and delivery of medications. Massive robots are being used in pharmacies to automate processes such as pulling pills, ointments, and creams, putting them into packs, sealing them, and transporting them to floors, he says.

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The Station: Waymo sues to protect trade secrets, Wisk lands more Boeing capital and a chat with Toyota’s chief scientist

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The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. The fourth round of the Transit Tech Lab has launched and is looking for technologists to submit ideas on ways to restore customer confidence in public transportation, improve resilience to weather extremes, and further reduce the region’s carbon footprint.

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GIS Development Services

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Geographical Information Systems (GIS) aid in the collection, analysis, and editing of spatial data; they often place a strong emphasis on simulation, a type of visualization that yields precise and accurate results. The income generated by the Geographic Information System (GIS) market in the US from 2014 to 2025. billion in 2016.