Researchers used AI to analyze new kinds of atomic-scale microscopic images to understand why batteries wear out. They specifically looked at a new type of battery - LFP battery - that could lead to mass-market electric vehicles because it does not use chemicals with constrained supply chains, like those in lithium-ion batteries.
The latest edition of the 2022 AI Index report, an independent initiative of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), includes data from research and development to technical performance and ethics, the economy and education, AI policy and governance and more.
Monroe Kennedy, here at left, and his team at Stanford's Assistive Robotics and Manipulation Lab (ARM Lab) will finish the design for a soft robotic finger almost as sensitive and stabilizing as the human hand. Kennedy is working on developing tools and algorithms that enable robots to serve as teammates with humans to provide support and partnership in the workplace and home environment.
Designers of autonomous vehicles rely on simulations to test autonomous vehicles' ability to navigate in real-world conditions. Stanford researchers provide an overview of "black-box safety validation" algorithms and say they are good, but work remains.
The Transactive Energy Service System (TESS), seen here at left, adjusts a home's power use up or down in response to fluctuating energy prices that are established by real-time market demand. TESS is being tested in 4 homes in Colorado and is slated to be installed in hundreds of homes in the next two years with the goal of saving consumers and utilities money while making the grid more resilient.
A team of researchers from Stanford and Oregon State University found that the plunge in global electricity use at the start of the pandemic was tied to shut down policies and other factors. However, the factors strongly associated with the initial declines in electricity use were not tightly coupled to its rebound.
An interdisciplinary Stanford team has developed and is seeking widespread adoption of an Ethics and Society Review (ESR) process for researchers to consider ethical and societal impacts and how to mitigate potential harms prior to funding.
Combining high-resolution microscopy techniques to see atomic-scale microscopic images to understand why batteries wear out along with AI, the team of researchers answered long-standing questions about an emerging type of rechargeable battery posing competition to lithium-ion chemistry.
In the last decade corporate venture capital (CVC) has gained traction as a way for companies to remain relevant Researchers at the Stanford Graduate School of Business looked into the black box of CVC units, interviewing senior investment professional working in the VC units of 74 U.S. companies, representing almost 80% of all CVC units in the S&P 500.
Stanford researchers are working to turn captured carbon into carbon-neutral fuels using a new catalyst they invented which increased the production of long-chain hydrocarbons in chemical reactions by some 1,000 times over existing methods.
