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A self-driving shuttle arrives in Sunderland
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Sunderland is embracing a new era of mobility with the Sunderland Advanced Mobility Shuttle (SAMS), marking a transportation.
SAMS is a pioneering initiative aimed at revolutionising urban there are preparations for mapping its route. The SAMS project will trial three self-driving zero-emission will transport passengers between the Sunderland Interchange, Royal Hospital. Whilst safety operators will always be onboard, the project will develop and demonstrate a cyber-secure remote supervision protocol, an important step toward commercial deployment.
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Japanese researchers close the loop between AI and robotic experiments
systems have come together in pioneering proof-of-concept work at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) in Japan. “The overall aim of our work is to allow experiments exploring materials science to be designed and then proceed automatically, with no human intervention,” says physicist and software engineer experimental design tasks normally done by humans, and then controls the robotic systems that can execute the required physical tasks.
AI algorithms to explore archived data on the properties of materials. It selects promising materials and proposes experimental procedures that would allow them to achieve a desired aim. The second module generates the instructions needed to control a robotic system that will put the instructions into practice. In addition, the team designed a graphical user interface to control it. “The results of initial work by the robotic system via NIMS-OS several cycles of test and improvement,” says Tamura.
6 April 2024 | Automation
In a proof-of-concept task that explored options for making
electrolytes that maximise the performance of an electrode in a lithium-metal battery, NIMS-OS utilised systems that were robotically assembled into electrochemical cells and subjected to charging and discharging cycles to analyse their performance. indicated there is room for improvement on the electrolytes that are currently widely used commercially.
“Our NIMS-OS is now publicly available as open-source software at the widely-used GitHub website,” says Tamura. “We now plan to develop it further to allow it to work together with
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