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The San Jose Redevelopment Agency said Thursday it received $200,000 in matching grants to help fund a partnership for electronic vehicle technology research.

RADA Received a $1,200,000 Purchase Order From Rafael to Design and Provide Avionics Units
RADA Electronic Industries Ltd. announced today that it has received a P.O. from Rafael to design and provide avionics systems. Purchase order value is $1,200,000, covers development and supply of prototype units. Production units order is expected to follow during 2007.

Robotic Whiskers Can Sense Three-dimensional Environment
Two Northwestern University engineers have been studying the whisker system of rats to better understand how mechanical information from the whiskers gets transmitted to the brain. Now they have developed arrays of robotic whiskers that sense in two dimensions and that can sense information about both object shape and fluid flow. The arrays could find application on assembly lines, in pipelines

11-10-2006: M'bishi Motors, utilities tie up for electric cars
Mitsubishi Motors Corp said on Oct 11 it would work with several Japanese utilities to study the feasibility of commercialising electric vehicles -- a task it wants to achieve by the end of the decade.