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Dr. Ifana Mahbub, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at The University of Texas, had already received the Young Faculty Award from DARPA in 2021, giving her US$500,000 over two years for her project. The fellowship offers an … Continue reading DARPA intends to wirelessly charge drones while in flight by power-beaming
MAMA BEAR – which stands for Mechanics of Additively Manufactured Architectures Bayesian Experimental Autonomous Researcher – 3D prints small structures before gently placing them into a hydraulic press and crushes them. It measures the energy absorpti… Continue reading Autonomous robot invents the world’s best shock absorber
A round trip to Mars – with our current technology – would take about two years: nine months to get there, three months of hangin’ out, waiting for the relative positions of Mars and Earth to line up closely again, then another nine months back. Howe I… Continue reading Pulsed plasma rocket promises a wild acceleration in space travel
Noland Arbaugh was in a swimming accident in 2016 that left him a quadriplegic. In January of this year, he became the first person to receive Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain implant called the Link that would eventually allow him to have telekinetic power… Continue reading Neuralink hopes to get brain implant right on second try
The footage is part of a 9-minute short film called 26,000 Days – as in, the number of days in our average life span – directed by Henry Behel. The message is poignant, even if you’ve heard it before: Do something. Live while you can.Continue ReadingCa… Continue reading Majestic drone vs plane video makes us wish we could fly
Take it off any sweet jumps yet? Yes, yes they have.Continue ReadingCategory: Motorcycles, TransportTags: Choppers, Off-road, Custom Bikes, Motorcycle, KTM, Crazy Continue reading Video: ‘Monster Chopper’ goes full send on its first test ride
Lisa Gautier and her partner Patrice Gautier founded Matter of Trust in 1998 with the hopes of being able to tackle environmental issues. They soon met up with Phillip McCrory, a hair-dresser from Alabama, who had the idea for hair mats being a useful … Continue reading Human hair: A surprisingly effective way to soak up oil spills
The MIRA I, from German aerospace startup Polaris Raumflugzeuge, was traveling at approximately 105 mph (169 km/h) during takeoff when a “landing gear steering reaction” plus a side wind caused a “hard landing event,” rendering the space plane inoperab… Continue reading Groundbreaking spaceplane crashes before world-first aerospike rocket test
DrEureka, a new open-source software package that anyone can play with, is used to train robots to perform real-world tasks using Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT 4. It’s a “sim-to-reality” system, meaning it teaches the robots in a virtual… Continue reading ChatGPT trains robot dog to walk on Swiss ball
What would you ask if you found yourself sitting across the screen from an interactive, digital version of… Well, yourself?Continue ReadingCategory: TechnologyTags: GPT, Artificial Intelligence, LLM (Large Language Model), Video Continue reading Reid Hoffman’s AI clone: So ‘human’ that it wipes a booger on the table