Last year, a self-driving car developed by China's National University of Defense Technology traveled 177 miles from Changsha to Wuhan.
Scientists have developed a self-healing protective coating for concrete that could greatly reduce the need to regularly rebuild roads.
In the Netherlands, scientists have developed a self-healing nano coating that repairs itself when it's damaged and could keep cars permanently clean.
In another exciting development, researchers at Georgia Tech have developed a self-charging power cell that's able to directly convert mechanical energy into chemical energy, making it possible to harvest up to five times more energy from footsteps.
Mr. Silbermann was looking for help building a version of Pinterest for the iPhone and happened upon a data tracking app developed by the self-taught Mr. Lavingia.
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It is said to have been developed for the mining industry, as a self-contained lunch that could be put into the pockets, was sturdy enough to survive until lunch, could be enjoyed hot or cold, and could easily be eaten with one hand down in the mines.
Self-driving cars developed by Google are becoming a regular sight around Silicon Valley.
Intrinsic and extrinsic motivations are well established terms in the literature on the psychology of motivation, primarily from a set of theories called Self-Determination Theory, which was developed by Edward Deci and Richard Ryan at the University of Rochester.
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Over the past five years the Russians developed a prototype of a vertical axis wind turbine with an innovative airfoil that enables the turbine to self-start.
Louis Woodhill, following on the work of Art Laffer, developed a framework for judging whether any given amendment to current tax law pays for itself or is self-defeating by analyzing the change in the present value of revenues discounted out to the infinite horizon produced by the tax amendment.
His research has resulted in the development of the first self-cleaning, dry adhesive and a number of gecko-like robots, including Stickybot, a mechanized lizard developed by Stanford University engineers that can climb up windows and walls using its own adhesive appendages.
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