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Amazon Looking for Drone Engineers in Cambridge, UK; Google and Its Robotic Karate Kid; Nat Gas Truck Sales to Rise, but More Slowly; US-China Climate Accord Impact Overstated? |
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That is the number of "hydraulically actuated joints" that are part of the new Atlas robot from Google, the result of its acquisition of Boston Dynamics a couple of years ago. Atlas, by the way, comes in at 6 foot 2 inches tall and weighs some 330 pounds. He also has "stereo vision" - whatever that is. It certainly appears to be a big advance in robot technology - Google released video of Atlas doing karate routines rather well, and claims it was designed so that Atlas can drive a car. Google has big plans for such robots, working in factories and perhaps delivering packages to your door ala the UPS man.
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That's the share of the market for natural gas powered engines in the heavy duty Class 8 truck market - which includes both trucks and busses - expected by 2025. That according to a new analysis by ACT Research. The firm, however, says that prediction is down from what it had forecast in 2012, as lower diesel prices and increasing fuel efficiency by new traditional diesel powered engines have closed the cost advantage once held by natural gas. ACT says the penetration of Class 8 natural gas truck/transit busses was 3% in 2013 and should reach 4% in 2014, or about 11,000 units. Assuming 200,000 total Class 8 units sold in the US in 2025, that would create a market of 46,000 nat gas vehicles or so by then. ACT notes that new regulations could potentially increase that forecast. |
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