Equipment manufacturer Caterpillar has announced that CEO Jim Umpleby will step down May 1 to become executive board chairman, with Chief Operating Officer, Joe Creed assumeing the lead corporate role.
The announcement comes as the company
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Caterpillar CEO to Step Down, Current COO Named as Successor
Equipment manufacturer Caterpillar has announced that its Chief Executive Officer, Jim Umpleby, will be stepping down from the role May 1 to become executive chairman of the company’s board, and the current Chief Operating Officer, Joe Creed,…
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Corn enhances performance of lithium-sulfur batteries, finds study
Corn may not be as humble as we once thought.
Long seen as a basic staple of meals and rural agriculture, corn is now showing surprising potential in cutting-edge technology.
Researchers at Washington State University have found a way to…
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Liebherr, Volvo CE See Bright Future for Autonomous, Electric Equipment
Swiss-German equipment giant Liebherr chose the Bauma trade show in Munich, Germany, to show the current state of its yearslong drive to develop autonomous construction and mining machines, showing off a wired-up generation 6 L 550 XPower 20-ton,…
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Machine learning unlocks superior performance in light-driven organic crystals
Researchers have developed a machine learning workflow to optimize the output force of photo-actuated organic crystals. Using LASSO regression to identify key molecular substructures and Bayesian optimization for efficient sampling, they achieved…
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Ubisoft drops industry-leading colorblind tool Chroma as open-source
Video games have evolved from being a young person’s pastime to a universal hobby enjoyed by people of all ages and abilities.
Today’s gaming community includes everyone from older adults and casual players to individuals living with…
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Astronomers have uncovered three new moons, including Uranus’ first in over two decades, marking a milestone in our understanding of the outer reaches of the solar system.
The International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center made…
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Startup Motif Launches Collaboration Platform for Design and Construction
Motif, Inc., a startup from former Autodesk executives Amar Hanspal and Brian Mathews, launched its first product March 26, a cloud-based platform for real-time design and construction collaboration. The cloud platform integrates 2D and 3D…
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Edible robot glows, grooves, and delivers nutrients
It looks like dessert and tastes like dessert. Still, inside the syrup, gelatin, and fondant layers, the RoboCake is doing something that no ordinary pastry has ever done: dancing, blinking, and running on edible batteries.
Unveiled as part…
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Hugging Face ramps up robot push, buys Pollen to take on China
Hugging Face is making its first big leap into hardware with the acquisition of French startup Pollen Robotics, the creators of the open-source humanoid robot Reachy 2.
Known for its widely used open-source AI model hub, Hugging Face is now…
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