Collaborate Disseminate
Any golfer will attest that the most impressive looking part of the game—long drives—isn’t where the game is won. To really lower one’s handicap the most important skills to develop …read more Continue reading Drive For Show, Putt for Dough
Any golfer will attest that the most impressive looking part of the game—long drives—isn’t where the game is won. To really lower one’s handicap the most important skills to develop …read more Continue reading Drive For Show, Putt for Dough
One of the more interesting and unique robots in the emerging humanoid space has received an unexpected upgrade. Shanghai’s Fourier Intelligence has just launched the GR-2 – taller, heavier, smarter, more dextrous and much stronger than the GR-1.Contin… Continue reading Bigger, stronger, smarter GR-2 humanoid launches with major hand upgrades
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: Some McDonald’s franchisees — which own and operate 95% of McDonald’s in the United States — are now rolling out kiosks that can take cash and accept change. But even in these locations, McDonald’s is rea… Continue reading McDonald’s Touchscreen Kiosks, Feared As Job Killers, Created More Jobs Instead
Instead of eliminating jobs, self-service kiosks at McDonald’s and other fast-food chains “have added extra work for kitchen staff,” reports CNN — and as a bonus, “pushed customers to order more food than they do at the cash register…”
Kiosks… Continue reading Do Self-Service Kiosks Actually Increase Employment at Fast-Food Restaurants?
In episode 15 of “The AI Fix”, Graham learns there’s one W in Mississippi, ChatGPT finds Mark’s G-spot, nobody watches Megalopolis, Alexa is unmasked as a “commie operative”, and our hosts learn that AI will soon need dedicated nuclear reactors.
Gra… Continue reading The AI Fix #15: AI robot butlers and gigawatt banana highways
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ScienceAlert: Nobody knows what sleeping mushrooms dream of when their vast mycelial networks flicker and pulse with electrochemical responses akin to those of our own brain cells. But given a chance, what might… Continue reading Engineers Gave a Mushroom a Robot Body and Let It Run Wild
Autonomous vehicles are said to be safer than human drivers – but would you trust a mushroom behind the wheel? A new kind of “biohybrid” robot moves in response to signals from the nervous system of a fungus.Continue ReadingCategory: Robotics, Technolo… Continue reading Fungus learns to drive in “biohybrid” robots
When you think of tracked robots, you might think of bomb disposal robots or others used in military applications. You probably haven’t seen anything quite like this, however—it’s a “reconfigurable …read more Continue reading Reconfigurable Tracked Robot Has Some Neat Flexible Abilities
In episode 13 of “The AI Fix””, meat avatar Cluley learns that AI doesn’t pose an existential threat to humanity and tells meat avatar Stockley how cybersex is about to get very, very weird. Our hosts also learn that men lie on their dating profiles, h… Continue reading The AI Fix #13: ChatGPT runs for mayor, and should we stop killer robots?