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Mcity opens for remote testing of autonomous vehicle technologies, calls for federal standards
The opening coincides with a new industry partnership project announced at the NVIDIA AI Summit.
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U-M opens Mcity test environment for connected and driverless vehicles
The University of Michigan today opened Mcity, the world’s first controlled environment specifically designed to test the potential of connected and automated vehicle technologies that will lead the way to mass-market driverless cars.
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Zhong He
When Michigan Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences professor Zhong He and his company, H3D, started selling the Polaris-H radiation detector in 2013, many hailed it as a game-changer for nuclear safety.
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Designing intelligence
Can we create machines who learn like we do?
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Gary Was
Gary Was, the Walter J. Weber, Jr. Professor of Sustainable Energy, Environmental and Earth Systems Engineering, believes there’s a faster, less expensive route to developing better reactor materials.
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Sara Pozzi
Sara Pozzi learned about the Manhattan Project in middle school and it sparked a lifelong fascination that has shaped her career.
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Joerg Lahann
University of Michigan Biointerfaces Institute director Joerg Lahann knew from a young age that he wanted to be a chemist.
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Christopher Ruf
Ruf directs the Remote Sensing group at Michigan, building instruments and developing algorithms that give us information about earth’s weather and climate collected from vantage points in space.
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Mercury MESSENGER nears epic mission end
A spacecraft that carries a sensor built at the University of Michigan is about to crash into the planet closest to the sun — just as NASA intended.
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High-tech robotics center coming to U-Michigan
The U-M Board of Regents approved the College of Engineering’s new robotics building project on April 16. The three-story, 100,000-square-foot facility is slated for Hayward Street just east of the Space Research Building on North Campus.
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Peecycling
In the first large-scale pilot project of its kind in the nation, researchers tested whether they could safely make fertilizer for food crops out of disinfected human urine.
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