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Sarah Porter (humanitarian). Sarah Porter is a British entrepreneur and humanitarian. Porter advocated for a girl's robotics team from Afghanistan so that they could circumvent U.S President Donald Trump's so-called "Muslim Ban" to participate in a competition in Washington, DC. She is also the Founder and CEO of Inspired Minds and the founder of World Summit AI.

Porter advocated for a girl's robotics team from Afghanistan so that they could circumvent the Trump travel ban to participate in a competition in Washington, DC. The team won the Rookie Inspiration Award at the FIRST Robotics World Championship in Detroit.

Porter founded Ada-AI following her involvement with the situation. The non-profit ensures that AI and other emerging technologies are developed inclusively and equitably. It addresses the lack of consideration for policy and regulation concerning AI, advocating for an inclusive future in technology development. Porter collaborates with AI industry leaders to combat AI biases and promote diversity in the field. Additionally, Porter has extended World Summit AI to the Americas with an annual event in Montreal, Canada. Furthermore, Porter has worked towards increasing representation in AI development from low to middle-income countries.

Sarah has been named Female Tech Entrepreneur of the Year and secured the Women in Tech Ally Award. Additionally, she was featured in Computer Weekly's Most Influential Women in Tech.

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Year of birth missing (living people)
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Agility Robotics. Agility Robotics, Inc. is a privately-held American humanoid robotics and engineering company. The company was founded in 2015 as a spin-off from Oregon State University and currently provides automation solutions, based around its humanoid robot Digit.

History 
The company was spun out of Oregon State University's Dynamic Robotics Lab in 2015. Jonathan Hurst created the robotics lab at Oregon State and helped establish the scientific basis for dynamic stability and locomotion in bipedal robots. The lab was among the first to reproduce human-like walking dynamics with bipedal robots. That work would be the foundation of Agility Robotics, co-founded by Hurst, Damion Shelton, and Mikhail Jones.

As a part of spinning out from Oregon State, Agility brought with them their first robot, Cassie, a biped with no upper body or perception systems. Cassie was sold as a research platform to labs and innovation departments, starting in 2016, and would go on to set the Guinness World Record for 100M run by a bipedal robot.

In 2017, the company released Digit, a full-size humanoid robot. Digit was equipped with a torso, arms, and a full perception system and was sold to academic labs and research institutes. The company sold a later version of Digit to Ford Motor Company to explore last-mile delivery, an effort that paired Digit with early autonomous vehicles. In 2021, Agility expanded Digit's capabilities to serve the warehouse and logistics industry by focusing on bulk material handling tasks.

The current version of Digit was released in 2023 at ProMat, a material handling and logistics tradeshow. Shortly after, the company announced their first humanoid robotics factory, located in Salem, Oregon, and named RoboFab.

In late 2023 the company announced a partnership with Amazon to bring Digit to their facilities to support distribution and fulfillment tasks. Shortly after that, Agility announced a similar partnership with GXO Logistics to work in their Spanx facility outside Atlanta, GA.

In 2024, Agility and GXO announced the first humanoid Robot-as-a-Service (RaaS) contract between the two companies, expanding the work done by Digit at their Spanx facility.

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American companies established in 2015
Companies based in Salem, Oregon
2015 establishments in Oregon
Robotics companies of the United States
Artificial intelligence companies
University spin-offs
Ilise Feitshans. Ilise Feitshans is an American global health lawyer working in the field of nanotechnology.

Education 
Feitshans attended Barnard College for her undergraduate degree. She received her JD from Georgetown University in 1983. She went on to earn her Master's of Science from Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, and her doctorate in International Relations from Geneva School of Diplomacy. She holds the first Swiss doctorate in nanotechnology law.

As of November 2023, Feitshans was a Master of Law Candidate in National and Global Health at Georgetown University.

Career 
Until 2008, Feitshans worked as a civil servant at the Geneva branch of the United Nations. There, she contributed to an update of the UN's Encyclopedia of Occupational Health and Safety. She also previously worked in Archamps, France, while she served as a Fellow in Law of Nanotechnology at the European Scientific Institute.

In the United States, Feitshans worked as a faculty member at Columbia University School of Law.

As of 2023, she is a member of the U.S. Supreme Court bar.

Publications

Books and chapters

Selected articles 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Feitshans, Ilise L. (2022-12-11). "Global Health Technologies Transforming Intellectual Property Law and World Trade". Precision Nanomedicine. 5 (4): 977–993. doi:10.33218/001c.57587.

Recognition 
The American Society of Safety Engineers listed her among its “100 Women Making a Difference in Safety, Health and Environment Professions” in 2011. Ms. JD, a development and networking for women lawyers and law students, gave her its 2016 Superwomen award. Her PhD thesis in international relations was awarded the Lausanne Prix de la Fondation de médecine sociale et preventive prize for the best research in social medicine and prevention at the University of Lausanne in 2014.

Personal life 
Feitshans splits her time between Haddonfield, New Jersey and France, where her husband, Dominique, works. She has two children.

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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
20th-century American women writers
21st-century American lawyers
21st-century American women lawyers
21st-century American women writers
Barnard College alumni
Columbia Law School faculty
Georgetown University alumni
Johns Hopkins University alumni
New Jersey lawyers
People from Haddonfield, New Jersey
Writers from New Jersey
Project IDX. Project IDX is an online integrated development environment (IDE) developed by Google. It is based on Visual Studio Code, and the infrastructure runs on Google Cloud. In addition to including the features, languages and plugins supported by VS Code, it has unique functionality built by Google. These include a built-in generative artificial intelligence assistant powered by Gemini, Nix integrations, and iOS and Android emulators. Google also provides templates for JavaScript, Python, and Go projects, as well for as a number of web and cross-platform frameworks like Node, Angular, Flutter, Next.js, React, FireBase, Google Maps, and Flask.

The application was initially only accessible after signing up on a waitlist. It was released as an open beta on May 14th 2024.

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2023 software
Applications of artificial intelligence
Google Cloud
Online integrated development environments
Web services
Katie Stack Morgan. Kathryn Stack Morgan is scientist at the National Aeronautics and Space Agency where she is known for her work in the exploration of planets such as Mars.

Early life and education 
Stack Morgan grew up in California, but spent summers in Maine. She received her bachelor's degree from Williams College in 2008, and went on to earn an M.Sc. (2011) and a Ph.D. (2015) from the California Institute of Technology.

Career 
Stack Morgan has been involved in Mars exploration efforts since 2014. Her work as a Research Scientist in the Geophysics and Planetary Geosciences Group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, has been centered on expanding our knowledge of Mars' geology and planetary sciences. She has also been actively involved with the Mars Science Laboratory mission concurrently, serving as a Participating Scientist until 2022 after serving as a Collaborator in the Science Office from 2012 to 2015. She has also been involved in the development and implementation of the Mars 2020 Rover Mission, an ambitious project that aims to solve the secrets of the Red Planet, as the Deputy Project Scientist since 2017. Her work on the Mars project includes working with images from the Curiousity rover and examining rocks to determine if they have potential biosignatures. As part of her work, Stack Morgan also names geographical places on Mars.

Honors and awards 
Stack Morgan was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2013. She has received multiple NASA Group Achievement Award that were given to the Mars Science Laboratory spanning from 2013, 2015, and 2017. Her contributions to the Mars 2020 Project have been recognized with a series of Voyager Awards spanning from 2018 to 2021. In 2022 she received a NASA Early Career Achievement Medal (2022). She received the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Edward Stone Award for Outstanding Research Publication in 2021 for her 2018 paper in the journal Sedimentology.

Selected publications

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Williams College alumni
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Coca-Cola Syrup Plant. The Coca-Cola Syrup Plant is a former industrial building in St. Louis, Missouri that made soft drink concentrate for the Coca-Cola company. The National Register of Historic Places listed the structure which has since been converted to the residential Temtor Lofts.

History 
Milton G. Clymer founded the Best-Clymer Manufacturing Company in 1913 to make preserves. In 1915 a major competitor, the Corn Products Refining Company, had to be broken up due to the Supreme Court finding that it was an illegal trust. In 1919, Clymer purchased  assets from the trust and combined it with his earlier company to form the Temtor Fruit & Products Company. That larger company required a new factory, so Clymer hired his cousin, architect Harry G. Clymer, to design the building.

The factory was completed in 1920 with a spur from the nearby Missouri Pacific Railroad and located in the industrial Carondelet area of St. Louis. In 1928, Temtor encountered financial problems so the Preserves and Honey, Inc. purchased the facility and created a subsidiary called Michigan-Davis to run it. In turn, Michigan-Davis sold the factory to Coca-Cola in 1937 to convert it into a syrup plant.

Before then, the nearest syrup plant was in Chicago and company president Robert W. Woodruff wanted an additional source for the Midwest. Coca-Cola syrup plants are directly owned and controlled out of the headquarters in Atlanta to ensure the secret formula is not disclosed. In contrast, Coca-Cola bottling plants are relatively common independent franchisees who receive deliveries from a syrup plant. After five decades, Coca-Cola closed the plant in 1988.

In 2011, the building was converted into a mixed-use development called Temtor Lofts with 77 housing units. The project received brownfield grants for asbestos and lead abatement. A microbrewery and restaurant, Perennial Artisan Ales, moved into the first floor.

Architecture 
The four-story building is C-shaped with an industrial Art Deco architecture. The exterior walls are brick with bays created by piers with a fenestration pattern consisting of sets of three windows. The top of the walls has terra cotta coping with a small parapet. Above the front door is a transom window and the "Coca-Cola" logo etched into a limestone panel.

The interior of the building is dominated by concrete mushroom columns. The basement originally contained large tanks for syrup storage.

See also 
 Seven-Up Headquarters
 Coca-Cola Syrup Plant (Baltimore)
 List of Coca-Cola buildings and structures
 National Register of Historic Places listings in St. Louis south and west of downtown

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Syrup Plant
National Register of Historic Places in St. Louis
Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri
Industrial buildings completed in 1920
1920 establishments in Missouri
Apartment buildings in Missouri
Residential buildings in St. Louis
Art Deco architecture in Missouri
Geely Galaxy E8. The Geely Galaxy E8 () is a battery electric mid-size sedan manufactured by the Chinese car manufacturer Geely Auto under the Geely Galaxy marque. The E8 is the Geely Galaxy marque's third model, after the L7 SUV and L6 sedan. It is also the brand's first battery electric vehicle.



Overview 
A preliminary design of the E8 was unveiled in 2023 as the Galaxy Light concept. The production model E8 was unveiled in November 2023, with pre-sales beginning that same month. The vehicle uses the Sustainable Experience Architecture platform, a platform shared by cars from several other Geely-owned brands such as the Zeekr 001 and Polestar 4.

The interior of the E8 features a distinctive 45" 8K OLED display that stretches almost the entire width of the dashboard. This infotainment section runs on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8295 processor. Other features present in the interior of the E8 include ambient mood lighting, a wireless charging pad and a panoramic sunroof.

Performance 
The top trim level of the E8, named the Starship Performance Edition, features a Dual-motor, four-wheel-drive layout that is capable of putting out 475kW of combined power and 710Nm combined torque. This is capable is propelling the car from 0–100 km/h in 3.5 seconds and reaching a top speed of 210 km/h. According to Geely, the E8 achieves a 50/50 weight distribution.

This trim level features an LFP battery with a capacity of 75.6 kWh, giving it a range of 620km (385 mi) on the CLTC cycle. The battery on this trim is able to be charged from 10–80% in 20 minutes.

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Geely vehicles
Cars introduced in 2023
Mid-size cars
Production electric cars
Walter Rosa. Walter Ruivo Pinto Gomes Rosa (born 20 November 1919) is a Portuguese politician, engineer, manager, and diplomat. He served as a member of the Assembly of the Republic, Minister of Transport and Communications (1975–1976), Minister of Industry and Technology (1976–1977), and Member of the European Parliament during its II term (1986–1987). He is affiliated with the Socialist Party (PS).

Biography 
Rosa graduated in electrical engineering in Paris. He worked as an engineer in hydroelectric power plants and on hydrotechnical projects. He became managing director of companies in the energy sector and a member of supervisory boards. From 1974 to 1975, he also managed the national railway carrier Caminhos de Ferro Portugueses.

Rosa became involved in politics within the Socialist Party, serving on its political committee and leading the PS parliamentary faction. He also served as mayor of Oeiras. In the 1976–1979 and 1985–1987 terms, he served in the Assembly of the Republic, representing the Leiria and Lisbon districts. He held ministerial positions in the areas of transport and communications (from 19 September 1975, to 6 January 1976) and industry and technology (from 6 January 1976, to 7 January 1977).

Subsequently, he served as the ambassador of Portugal to Caracas (from 1977 to 1981) and Paris (from 1984 to 1985). 

From 1 January 1986, to 13 September 1987, he served as a Member of the European Parliament as part of the national delegation. He joined the Socialists Group and served on committees such as the Budget Control Committee and the Budget Committee.

Rosa has been awarded the Military Order of Christ (1959) and the Order of Francisco de Miranda.

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Government ministers of Portugal
Luitgard Schwendenmann. Luitgard Schwendenmann is a German–New Zealand ecosystem scientist, and is a full professor at the University of Auckland, specialising in how nutrients, carbon and water cycle through the soil, plants and atmosphere.

Academic career

Schwendenmann completed a Bachelor of Engineering at Bingen Technical University of Applied Sciences, followed by a Master of Science in Resource Engineering at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and a PhD in landscape ecology at the Georg August University. Schwendenmann undertook postdoctoral research at the University of Wyoming, and then joined the faculty of the School of Environment at the University of Auckland in 2010, where she was promoted to full professor in 2024.

Schwendemann's research focuses on how nutrients, carbon and water cycle through the soil, plants and atmosphere. Schwendenmann learned about kauri dieback, a fungus-like disease of the native kauri tree, while working on urban ecosystems in Auckland, and became interested in the impact of pathogens on ecosystem functioning. She has also worked on myrtle rust, which affects plants in the  Myrtaceae family, which in New Zealand includes pōhutukawa, northern rātā, and southern rātā.

In 2021, Schwendenmann received a Mercator Fellowship to spend three years studying the relationship between canopy structure and plant water uptake patterns, at the University of Jena in Germany.

Schwendenmann is co-lead with Simon Wegner and Nick Waipara of the Ngā Rākau Taketake – Risk Assessment and Ecological Impact theme of the Biological Heritage National Science Challenge.

Selected works

References

External links
 Impacts of kauri dieback on key ecosystem processes - Dr Luitgard Schwendenmann, 30 November 2013, via YouTube

New Zealand academics
New Zealand women academics
Academic staff of the University of Auckland
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology alumni
University of Göttingen alumni
New Zealand ecologists
New Zealand women scientists
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Living people
Shannon Launch and Recovery System. Shannon Launch and Recovery System (SLARS) is a custom designed tractor and trailer specifically designed for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) to launch and recover  lifeboats.

The SLARS is produced by two British companies, Supacat, based in Honiton, Devon, and Clayton Engineering Limited, based in Knighton, Powys. In 2015, Supacat rebranded as SC Innovation.

Operation
The Shannon launch and recovery system (SLARS) was developed to launch and recover the 18-tonne  RNLI lifeboat. 

The lifeboat is launched, and recovered, bow-first. The carriage, mounted on tracked wheels, is used to transport a lifeboat from boathouse to sea. The carriage can then be tilted, effectively acting as a slipway to launch the boat when released.

On return, the boat will be driven ashore. A synthetic winch line, designed not to recoil should it break, is attached to the bow of the lifeboat, and the carriage is again tilted to meet the bow of the boat. The lifeboat is then hauled up the carriage. When the carriage is returned to the horizontal, and the lifeboat securely attached, the top section of the carriage rotates 180° as a turntable, and the lifeboat is ready to relaunch.

Both the tractor and carriage are tracked vehicles. In some locations, the carriage is also a powered unit, to assist traction and movement. The driver has two sets of controls, and can rotate the seat 180°. The high cab gives excellent visibility, with CCTV to assist. The cab is fully waterproof, and the vehicle can be operated in  of calm water.

RNLI SLARS Fleet

See also 
 Shannon-class lifeboat
 Talus MB-H amphibious tractor
 Talus MB-764 amphibious tractor
 RNLI New Holland TC45 launch tractor
 Talus Atlantic 85 DO-DO launch carriage

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Royal National Lifeboat Institution launch vehicles
Sea-going tractors
Tractors
Rescue equipment
Methylammonium formate. Methylammonium formate is an ionic liquid consisting of methylammonium (CH3NH3+) as the cation and formate (HCOO–) as the anion. This  salt can be formed by the reaction between methylamine (CH3NH2) and formic acid (HCOOH). It has characteristics of both an ammonium salt and a formate salt. It is soluble in water, as well as other polar solvents.

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Formates
Methylammonium compounds
Ionic liquids
Chennai Metrolite. Chennai Metrolite is a planned  Metrolite system in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. The line will connect Tambaram and Velachery in South Chennai. The system will be constructed and operated by Chennai Metro Rail Limited. The stations will be at-grade and the line is planned to link the existing urban transit lines of Chennai Metro and Chennai Mass Rapid Transit System.

The system will be designed as per MoHUA's Metrolite specifications and will be cheaper to construct because of its lower speeds and carrying capacities compared to regular metros. In 2023, the feasibility study for the project was commissioned by the Chennai Unified Metropolitan Transport Authority.

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Urban transit in Chennai
Transport in Chennai
Standard gauge railways in India
Ryutaro Tsuchida. Ryutaro Tsuchida (槌田·龍太郎; 1903-1962) was a Japanese chemist.

Tsuchida graduated from Tokyo University in (昭和3年，Shōwa era 3rd) 1928. In June 1935, he established a fifth course at Osaka University. In 1939, he originally proposed the correlation between molecular geometry and number of valence electron pairs (both shared and unshared pairs). This concept was later developed into the VSEPR theory of molecular geometry.

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1962 deaths
20th-century Japanese chemists
Butler in a Box. Butler in a Box was an early voice-controlled home automation device developed in 1983 by magician Gus Searcy and programmer Franz Kavan. The device allowed users to control various home electronics, such as lights and phones, using voice commands. It predated modern smart speakers and virtual assistants by several decades.

History
The idea for the Butler in a Box originated in 1983 when Searcy was asked by friends why he couldn't simply command lights to turn on and off if he could pull rabbits out of hats, given his background as a professional magician. Searcy partnered with former IBM programmer Kavan to develop the device, with their first prototype being named "Sidney".
The Butler in a Box combined remote control technology with voice recognition to enable control of home devices. However, it faced challenges due to the technological limitations of the era and its high price point of nearly $1,500 (equivalent to around $3,700 in 2021).

Features and functionality
Users could activate the Butler in a Box by speaking a wake word, typically a traditional butler name, and the device would address the user as "boss". It was capable of performing tasks such as:
 Turning lights on and off, controlling individual zones if lights were connected to remote control modules
 Making and receiving phone calls
 Setting timers
 Pairing with sensors to function as a security alarm system

However, the device required extensive voice training for each user, a time-consuming process compared to modern voice recognition. Additionally, settings and trained commands would be lost if power was out for over 3 hours due to the volatile memory technology used at the time.

Reception and legacy
While innovative for its time, the Butler in a Box did not achieve widespread commercial success due to its high price and the technical limitations of the 1980s.
Nevertheless, it served as an important early step in the development of home automation and showcased the potential for voice-controlled technology to enhance accessibility and convenience in the home. Decades later, products like Amazon Alexa, Google Home, and Apple's Siri would make voice-controlled smart home devices commonplace and affordable, building on the groundwork laid by early attempts like the Butler in a Box.

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Home automation
Smart speakers
Virtual assistants
1983 establishments in the United States
Products introduced in 1983
Robotics
Assistive technology
History of human–computer interaction
American inventions
Computing input devices