Boston Dynamics and Toyota team up: Teaching Atlas how to learn

The Toyota Research Institute has been doing some incredible work teaching robots to rapidly learn and perform tasks autonomously – now, it’s bringing its Large Behavior Model tech to the extraordinary Atlas humanoid in partnership with Boston Dynamics… Continue reading Boston Dynamics and Toyota team up: Teaching Atlas how to learn

Inches apart: Self-driving cars master extreme sideways driving skills

Toyota and Stanford University have been pushing self-driving technology beyond the limits of traction for several years now, and they’ve now released video of two autonomous cars drifting in tandem, getting very sideways with extreme precision.Continu… Continue reading Inches apart: Self-driving cars master extreme sideways driving skills

Toyota’s new soft humanoid picks things up with its whole body

Most humanoid robots pick things up with their hands – but that’s not how we humans do it, particularly when we’re carrying something bulky. We use our chests, hips and arms as well – and that’s the idea behind Toyota’s new soft robot.Continue ReadingC… Continue reading Toyota’s new soft humanoid picks things up with its whole body

Self-drifting Toyota Supra gets sideways to avoid on-track obstacles

There’s a growing number of things we expect from modern automated vehicle technology, but that list definitely does not include going full-blown screeching, smoking drift mode at speed. That’s the benchmark Toyota Research Institute hit recently in a … Continue reading Self-drifting Toyota Supra gets sideways to avoid on-track obstacles

AWS launches its next-gen GPU instances

AWS today announced the launch of its newest GPU-equipped instances. Dubbed P4, these new instances are launching a decade after AWS launched its first set of Cluster GPU instances. This new generation is powered by Intel Cascade Lake processors and eight of NVIDIA’s A100 Tensor Core GPUs. These instances, AWS promises, offer up to 2.5x […] Continue reading AWS launches its next-gen GPU instances