Jan 5, 2016
Meet the Autonomous Car that Charges As You Drive
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
This futuristic autonomous car can communicate with its surroundings, and it charges as it drives…
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Jan 5, 2016
Faraday Future has created the Variable Platform Architecture
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: innovation, transportation
has created the Variable Platform Architecture. According to Faraday Future, the “innovative” architecture means that the company has “the potential to deliver an extremely diverse range of vehicles to markets.”
FF has created the Variable Platform Architecture, which provides us with many powerful possibilities. Learn more.
Jan 5, 2016
Nvidia announces a ‘supercomputer’ GPU and deep-learning platform for self-driving cars
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: computing, robotics/AI, supercomputing, transportation
Nvidia took pretty much everyone by surprise when it announced it was getting into self-driving cars; it’s just not what you expect from a company that’s made its name off selling graphics cards for gamers.
At this year’s CES, it’s taking the focus on autonomous cars even further.
The company today announced the Nvidia Drive PX2. According to CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, it’s basically a supercomputer for your car. Hardware-wise, it’s made up of 12 CPU cores and four GPUs, all liquid-cooled. That amounts to about 8 teraflops of processing power, is as powerful as 6 Titan X graphics cards, and compares to ‘about 150 MacBook Pros’ for self-driving applications.
Jan 5, 2016
Faraday Future’s FFZERO1 concept car reveal
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: futurism, transportation
Jan 4, 2016
Tesla’s rival just unveiled its first car — and it looks like a futuristic Batmobile
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: futurism, transportation
Jan 4, 2016
London to NYC in one hour courtesy of the new Airbus jet design
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: transportation
Have breakfast in London and lunch in New York thanks to the futuristic new jet design from Airbus.
Jan 3, 2016
LG made an 18-inch display you can roll up like a newspaper
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: electronics, mobile phones, transportation
LG Display has a prototype 18-inch screen it’s showing off at the Consumer Electronics Show this week that rolls up like a piece of paper. The technology builds on LG’s forward-looking OLED work focusing on bendable, rollable, and curving displays. The company showed similar technology last year as a proof of concept, but kept images behind closed doors. Now LG looks ready to show the world.
We’ve seen this type of concept display from the likes of Sony, Samsung, Sharp, and others in the past. However, it does indicate that LG sees these types of futuristic displays as differentiation points for smartphones, tablets, and TVs. LG envisions these types of screens rolling up into our pockets or being made to wrap around interior spaces, and the company will show off a 25-inch curved screen installed on the inside of a car at its Auto Zone section on the show floor.
We’ll get a closer look at the newspaper-like screen in a couple of days, as well as a new 55-inch “paper thin” TV that has all its electronics installed independently, according to LG. So check back in with The Verge for LG coverage and everything else CES-related throughout the week.
Jan 2, 2016
The First International Beauty Contest Judged By Robots
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: information science, life extension, neuroscience, robotics/AI, transportation
“You like your Tesla, but does your Tesla like you?” My new story for TechCrunch on robots understanding beauty and even whether they like your appearance or not:
Robots are starting to appear everywhere: driving cars, cooking dinners and even as robotic pets.
But people don’t usually give machine intelligence much credence when it comes to judging beauty. That may change with the launch of the world’s first international beauty contest judged exclusively by a robot jury.
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Jan 1, 2016
Potential delay for first test flight of India’s spaceplane demonstrator
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: space, transportation
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) may have to delay the first test flight of its experimental Reusable Launch Vehicle-Technology Demonstrator (RLV-TD) spaceplane. The unmanned sub-orbital spacecraft, which is similar in design to the US Air Force’s X-37B, was scheduled to be launched in February, but technical difficulties may put back the flight to the first week of April.
According to a report in the New Indian Express, a minor leak in the flight systems of the RLV-TD led to the potential setback. K Sivan, director of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), where the craft is being developed, told the paper that the spacecraft needed to be reassembled, which could cause a significant delay if more problems occur.
The RLV-TD is a two-stage scaled prototype of India’s Avatar spacecraft designed to drastically reduce the cost of launching payloads into orbit from US$5,000 per kilogram (2.2 lb) to US$500. RLV-TD is a winged technology demonstrator for testing flight and propulsion systems that will allow the completed Avatar to return to Earth for a controlled landing like a conventional aircraft.
Dec 30, 2015
Autonomous Cars Can Now Learn to Use Landmarks While Driving
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: education, robotics/AI, transportation
Cambridge scientists are “teaching machines to see” using a new smartphone-based system (or a regular camera), without GPS or a wireless connection.
This has applications in everything from driverless cars to autonomous vacuum cleaners.
