Collaborate Disseminate
Playing chess has always been a bellwether for computers. The game isn’t trivial, but the rules are managably simple. However, the game is too complex to be easily solved entirely, …read more Continue reading Microchess Remembered
Indian motorcycle rider Venkata Karthik Tupili recently broke the Guinness World Record for the longest journey by motorcycle in a single country, covering a total of 140,094.1 kilometers (87,050 miles) across India. His journey spanned more than 450 d… Continue reading Guinness World Record for longest motorcycle journey in a single country
Sanctuary AI is one of the world’s leading humanoid robotics companies. Its Phoenix robot, now in its seventh generation, has dropped our jaws several times in the last few months alone, demonstrating a remarkable pace of learning and a fluidity and co… Continue reading Interview: Suzanne Gildert leaves Sanctuary to focus on AI consciousness
After just 12 months of development, Figure has released video footage of its humanoid robot walking – and it’s looking pretty sprightly compared to its commercial competition. It’s our first look at a prototype that should be doing useful work within … Continue reading Figure’s humanoid is already walking and performing autonomous tasks
Born April 6, 1986, Adcock was raised on a corn and soybean farm outside the tiny town of Moweaqua, Illinois. By the time he graduated valedictorian of his high school class at Central A&M, it was fairly clear he was cut out for business – he’d been wo… Continue reading High-tech entrepreneur Brett Adcock on Figure, Archer, and early success
Born April 6, 1986, Adcock was raised on a corn and soybean farm outside the tiny town of Moweaqua, Illinois. By the time he graduated valedictorian of his high school class at Central A&M, it was fairly clear he was cut out for business – he’d been wo… Continue reading High-tech entrepreneur Brett Adcock on Figure, Archer, and early success
Born April 6th, 1986, Adcock is already a veteran technology entrepreneur at the relatively tender age of 37, having successfully sold employment website Vettery for US$110 million, then founded key eVTOL aircraft contender Archer and taken it public o… Continue reading Figure’s Brett Adcock on the practicalities of humanoid robot workers
After coming into nine-figure wealth from the sale of his first company Vettery, then founding eVTOL company Archer in 2018 and taking it public on the NYSE at a US$2.7 billion valuation, Adcock wanted a new and bigger challenge to chew on.Continue Rea… Continue reading Getting philosophical with future robot overlord Brett Adcock
Nano-engineering happens all day long in our bodies, and California startup Aether is designing and testing millions of new enzymes to do a range of other useful tasks – like directly extracting battery-grade lithium from sources nobody else can use.Co… Continue reading Aether’s nano-machines: From super-cheap lithium to brand new molecules
In the final part of our extended chat, the CEO and co-founder of Triton Submarines takes us through some highlight dives from an extraordinary career, from salvaging the “smoking gun” from the Challenger space shuttle and filming with James Cameron, t… Continue reading Patrick Lahey interview part 3: Memorable dives from a remarkable career