U.K.-based company Engineered Arts has unveiled a remarkably human-like android with a promotional video released on social media of it “waking up.” In the video, the robot known as “Ameca” can be seen expressing what appears to be surprise as it opens its eyes and looks around and examines itself. When it notices the camera person, it then smiles and offers out its hand. The Ameca has grey-coloured skin, with gender and race-neutral characteristics, but is being described as the world’s “most advanced human shaped robot representing the forefront of human-robotics technology.” “The reason for making a robot that looks like a person is to interact with people,” Engineered Arts founder Will Jackson said.
Revisiting the Supercapacitor – The Wait for Graphene is Over
There’s been lot of hype about graphene since it was first discovered and called a breakthrough. But we’re still waiting for the next big thing. That’s starting to change. A newly announced supercapacitor from Skeleton Technologies could make a big impact on the renewable energy market. Let’s revisit graphene, the supercapacitor, ultracapacitor, how it compares to lithium ion batteries, and when and where it’s going to start making an impact.
Jetson ONE – Official Launch
Meet the Jetson ONE. Jetson ONE is an ultralight and extremely fun to fly recreational all-electric personal vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft. Test pilot: Tomasz Patan – Founder & CTO at Jetson Our mission is to make the skies available for everyone with our safe personal electric aerial vehicle.
The Million Dollar Homepage Gets A Blockchain Makeover
Its harder and harder these days for crypto projects to grab the attention of the greater crypto community so sometimes finding alternative ways to market is a must. I revisit the Polypixels project ahead of their platform token launch meant to help get more eyeballs on your ads.
Deepmind’s Crazy Plan To Surpass OpenAI’s Best AI
Google’s Deepmind is working on a rather crazy and unique plan to surpass OpenAI’s biggest and best Artificial Intelligence Model within the next few months. In a new paper, AI researchers at DeepMind present a new technique to improve the capacity of reinforcement learning agents to cooperate with humans at different skill levels. Accepted at the annual NeurIPS conference, the technique is called Fictitious Co-Play (FCP) and it does not require human-generated data to train the RL agents.
~366~ The Hidden Workers Behind Artificial Intelligence
Microwork is a rising form of labor exploitation being deployed by some of the world’s wealthiest capitalists. It’s online work where users are asked to perform menial, small tasks for pennies. Naomi Karavani takes on the phenomenon and shows us the victims of the industry. The low-paid work includes tasks like identifying the contents of images, translating, transcribing audio, or any task that someone on the site is willing to pay for. These tasks can become abusive where workers have been sexually harassed by the people setting the tasks. Jeff Bezos has a company called Mechanical Turk that competes for microwork jobs. Vulnerable people such as refugees and those living in occupied territories are the target worker for the microwork industry.
What is Blockchain and Crypto? (A Simple Explanation)
In this video, I provide a simple explanation of what blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies are. I discuss what ledgers are and how they’re important in the world of crypto and then I discuss the 3 generations of crypto, including crypto assets like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Avalanche, Polkadot, and Cardano.
“Nobody Can Explain This, Prepare Yourself” | Elon Musk (2021)
Elon Musk gives his final warning about Artificial Intelligence, also known as AI. Elon Musk discusses his look on life and why he figures we could be living in a reenactment, the secret subtleties that show why we’re in a recreated reality. Elon Musk clarifies that man-made brainpower and self-governing innovation are improving and better, and he anticipates that they should take over inside the following 10 years. Elon Musk further discloses his arrangements to turn into a spacefaring development and travel to defaces with SpaceX, Tesla and The Boring Company. This is a Motivational and educational video which will give you different perspective about many things, You will listen to incredible advice that is very important.
Why the Airship May Be the Future of Air Travel
Just one short-haul flight a year produces 10% of our individual carbon emissions. We could go back to trains for our traveling, which produce about half the CO2 of a plane, but you don’t always have the time. What if we could get the speed of air travel with the lower emissions of ground-travel? Enter the airship (aka blimp).
Turning Buildings into Batteries? Concrete Battery Storage Explained
Turning Buildings into Batteries? Concrete Battery Storage Explained.
Energy storage is the holy grail of decarbonization. If we want to get rid of fossil fuels for good, we need to be able store a large amount of surplus renewable energy over time. The current technologies available, like lithium ion batteries, may not have enough capacity to meet our power storage demand in the future. But what if we could turn our houses and buildings themselves into a battery?