After much trial and error, Jacobi’s founders, including roboticist Ken Goldberg, say they’ve cracked it. Their software, built upon research from a paper they published in Science Robotics in 2020, is designed... Read more »
But there are a few challenges with this process that I see a lot in recycling methods. First, reaching a large industrial scale would be difficult—as one researcher that Sarah spoke to... Read more »
3 Amazon claims to have met a clean energy goal seven years earlySome experts aren’t convinced its calculation method is up to scratch, though. (NYT $)+ Carbon capture needs to improve if... Read more »
What is going on? Why now? Examining potential changes to consumer IoT could provide some answers. Specifically, the vast range of areas where the technology finds home and personal uses, from smart... Read more »
ALCON ENTERTAINMENT VIA ALAMY Right around the same time, Tegmark founded the Future of Life Institute, with a remit to study and promote AI safety. Depp’s costar in the movie, Morgan Freeman,... Read more »
2. The Chinese EV leader BYD will spend $1 billion to build a factory in Turkey. (Financial Times $) This will probably help BYD avoid some of the tariffs that Europe has... Read more »
The big story Welcome to Chula Vista, where police drones respond to 911 calls February 2023 In the skies above Chula Vista, California, where the police department runs a drone program, it’s... Read more »
In the future, an AI agent could not only suggest things to do and places to stay on my honeymoon; it would also go a step further than ChatGPT and book flights... Read more »
Researchers at the Robotics and Embodied AI Lab at Stanford University set out to change that. They first built a system for collecting audio data, consisting of a GoPro camera and a... Read more »
We all want to be able to speak our minds online—to be heard by our friends and talk (back) to our opponents. At the same time, we don’t want to be exposed... Read more »