Collaborate Disseminate
At Tesla’s 2023 shareholders meeting, Elon Musk showed some new video of the Optimus robot he believes will represent the vast majority of the company’s value in the future – as well as the method through which the development team is training the AI.C… Continue reading Tesla’s Optimus robot is learning to navigate, sense and pick things up
In a rather comprehensive day’s work, Rimac has broken more or less every relevant acceleration and braking record in the lofty world of hypercars, including rocketing from a standstill to 400 km/h (249 mph) and back to zero in less than 30 seconds.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Rimac Automobili, Electric Vehicles, World Records, World’s Fastest
Continue reading Rimac Nevera breaks the record for record breaking: 23 in one day
Canada’s Sanctuary AI has revealed a new humanoid robot, shooting for the “world’s first human-like intelligence in general purpose robots (GPR).” Phoenix builds on some very impressive earlier work and a neat “piloted” approach to training.Continue Re… Continue reading Sanctuary rolls out Phoenix, a Carbon-based humanoid AI labor robot
OpenAI is making rapid advances in a new text-to-3D object system it’s been working on. The Shap-E AI, available as an open-source download, can generate 3D assets straight from a text description, or build them from supplied images.Continue ReadingCat… Continue reading OpenAI’s new text-to-3D system: The dawn of voice-controlled CAD
One of the most gloriously silly projects in the automotive world is set to launch within the next few months. The Tamiya Wild One Max is a faithful replica of a hugely popular R/C toy from the ’80s, upscaled to a two-seat, street-legal electric buggy…. Continue reading Street-legal, overgrown Tamiya R/C car will debut this summer
In an outrageously audacious move, Washington-based fusion power startup Helion has signed the world’s first fusion power supply deal, promising to deliver Microsoft at least 50 megawatts of clean fusion power by 2028, or pay financial penalties.Contin… Continue reading Helion to supply Microsoft with fusion power by 2028, or pay penalties
Deep learning neural nets have begun a roughshod rampage through the creative arts sectors, and if musicians thought they were safe from the AIs that plague the nightmares of writers, artists and others, they’ve got another think coming.Continue Readin… Continue reading Google opens up the MusicLM text-to-music AI for public playtime
Six months after revealing its production eVTOL air taxi design, Archer Aviation has shown off its first functional Midnight aircraft, with flight tests set to begin in the coming months – and manufacturing has already begun on a conforming prototype.C… Continue reading Archer’s first Midnight eVTOL is built and ready to fly
Badly bloodied by OpenAI’s GPT-4, Google has struck back with a new, more powerful large language model (LLM) to upgrade Bard and create a suite of new AI services – starting with a model targeted at doctors. It also teased its next-gen Gemini AI.Conti… Continue reading Google swings for the fences with PaLM 2 and Gemini AI systems
“It’s at least as good as our best customer service representative, and it’s probably on average better,” said Wendy’s CIO Kevin Vasconi to the Wall Street Journal. After successful early tests, the fifth biggest fast food chain in the USA will start u… Continue reading Wendy’s to begin replacing drive-thru staff with AI chatbots