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UK car parks could ‘collapse’ under the weight of EVs, report warns

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In recent years, vehicles have become increasingly heavy, with their average weight rising from 1.5 This increase in weight could prove fatal, and might have caused the death of one person in the collapse of a multi-storey car park in New York City in April 2023. tonnes in 1974 to almost 2 tonnes today.

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The Many Ways of Measuring Thickness

Modern Machine Shop

The measurement of thickness is a common one. It is a length measurement, but just a different way of handling it. It seems like this would be a straightforward check; however, there are many approaches to measuring thickness, depending on the requirements of the part. The gage measures back pressure on each of the air streams.

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Smart compost bin in development to automatically track food waste

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At every other step of the agricultural supply chain, food waste is tracked, measured and quantified,” said project leader Patrick Donnelly. However, approaches to measuring post-consumer food waste are costly, time-intensive, prone to human error and infeasible at a large scale.

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Book review: 'The Seven Measures of the World' by Piero Martin

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The Seven Measures of the World (Yale University Press, £18.99, ISBN: 9780300266276) is a guide to the natural world through seven units of measurement: the metre, the second, the kilogram, the kelvin, the ampere, the mole, and the candela. With these seven measurements, Martin argues, we can understand the universe.

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Smartphone sensors able to detect alcohol intoxication with high accuracy

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Participants were given a weight-based dose of alcohol and randomly assigned a series of tongue twisters – one before drinking, and one each hour up to seven hours after drinking. Researchers also measured their breath alcohol concentration at the beginning of the study and every 30 minutes for up to seven hours.

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Bota Systems launches PixONE force-torque sensors for robotics

Robotics Business Review

Bota Systems said this simplifies the assembly and significantly reduces the sensor’s weight, making it 30% lighter than comparable sensors on the market. This is critical for dynamic systems such as fast-moving robots, where excess weight can impede performance and operational efficiency, it said.

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High-tech helmet with liquid shock absorbers reduces brain injuries by a third

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They measured the head kinematics for each impact to produce a score, which is used to evaluate helmet performance under impact. The highest-weighted location is the ‘side upper’ portion of the helmet because impacts here are most likely to cause concussions.