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Oct 17, 2024

Can Elon Musk’s $20K Tesla Optimus Replace Human Labor?

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, robotics/AI

Would you be comfortable having Optimus in your home? Share your thoughts in the comments.

At Tesla’s We, Robot Cybercab event, Elon Musk unveiled a surprising appearance by Tesla’s humanoid robot, Optimus. A group of these robots walked alongside the reveal of the new Robovan. Optimus bots were shown in a video performing daily tasks such as delivering packages and watering plants, with Musk emphasizing that these robots could soon do nearly anything—from walking your dog to babysitting kids. With a long-term price between $20,000 to $30,000, Musk claims that Optimus could be Tesla’s biggest product yet, eventually transforming civilization.

Oct 17, 2024

Underwater Walking of the Honey Badger Legged Robot | MAB Robotics

Posted by in categories: innovation, robotics/AI

Watch as the Honey Badger legged robot from MAB Robotics demonstrates its underwater locomotion capabilities. Designed for extreme environments, this innovative robot showcases robust movement across submerged terrain, pushing the boundaries of legged robotics. Perfect for inspection and maintenance in flooded or challenging areas, the Honey Badger is a leap forward in autonomous robotics.

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Oct 17, 2024

Diabolical Nanomagnets

Posted by in categories: nanotechnology, particle physics, quantum physics

A quantum degeneracy named after a Chinese yo-yo boosts the magnetization lifetime of a short chain of magnetic iron atoms by a factor of 1000.

Oct 17, 2024

Fluid Flow Anchors Intracellular Structure

Posted by in category: futurism

Theorists have developed a model to explain how a protein structure keeps its position while being buffeted by currents.

Oct 17, 2024

Synthesizing New 3D Materials by Twisting

Posted by in categories: particle physics, space

Overlapping two 3D lattices with a relative twist opens the door to synthesizing crystals with diverse symmetries that showcase nontrivial band structures and novel properties.

When two identical periodic lattices overlap in space, with one twisted at an angle relative to the other, they form moiré lattices. The best-known examples are formed from stacked and rotated 2D sheets. These structures can possess fascinating properties not seen in their component layers. Twisted bilayer graphene, for example, can exhibit superconductor and Mott insulator behavior [1, 2]. Ce Wang of Tongji University in China and his colleagues now propose how to construct a 3D moiré lattice using two cubic optical lattices hosting ultracold atoms [3]. The researchers mathematically describe how two simple periodic structures, twisted relative to each other, can lead to 3D optical moiré patterns (Fig. 1). The result is a crystal-like structure with emergent properties that differ from those of the underlying simple lattices.

Oct 17, 2024

China’s underground lab seeks answer to deep scientific riddle

Posted by in category: futurism

Far beneath the lush landscape of southern China, a sprawling subterranean laboratory aims to be the world’s first to crack a deep scientific enigma.

Oct 17, 2024

Water crisis threatening world food production: report

Posted by in categories: food, sustainability

Inaction on the water crisis could put more than half of the world’s food production at risk by 2050, experts warned in a major report published Thursday.

Oct 17, 2024

It’s twins! Mystery of famed brown dwarf solved

Posted by in category: futurism

Hundreds of papers have been written about the first known brown dwarf, Gliese 229B, since its discovery by Caltech researchers at the Institute’s Palomar Observatory in 1995. But a pressing mystery has persisted about this orb: It is too dim for its mass.

Oct 17, 2024

14-year-old who invented device to detect pesticides on produce named America’s Top Young Scientist

Posted by in category: futurism

Sirish Subash is named “America’s Top Young Scientist” for his device PestiSCAND that can help detect harmful pesticide residue.

Oct 17, 2024

Billionaire Drools That “Citizens Will Be on Their Best Behavior” Under Constant AI Surveillance

Posted by in categories: finance, information science, robotics/AI, surveillance

If it were up to Larry Ellison, the exorbitantly rich cofounder of software outfit Oracle, all of us will soon be smiling for the camera — constantly. Not for a cheery photograph, but to appease our super-invasive, if not totally omnipresent, algorithmic overseers.

As Business Insider reports, the tech centibillionaire glibly predicts that the wonders of AI will bring about a new paradigm of supercharged surveillance, guaranteeing that the proles — excuse us, “citizens” — all behave and stay in line.

“We’re going to have supervision,” Ellison said this week at an Oracle financial analysts meeting, per BI. “Every police officer is going to be supervised at all times, and if there’s a problem, AI will report that problem and report it to the appropriate person.”

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