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Caltech’s LEO Flying Biped Can Skateboard and Slackline

7 Οκτωβρίου 2021 by paulkokos

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Back in February of 2019, we wrote about a sort of humanoid robot thing (?) under development at Caltech, called Leonardo. LEO combines lightweight bipedal legs with torso-mounted thrusters powerful enough to lift the entire robot off the ground, which can handily take care of on-ground dynamic balancing while also…

Forget JPEG, How Would a Person Compress a Picture?

6 Οκτωβρίου 2021 by paulkokos

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Picture your favorite photograph, say, of an outdoor party. What's in the picture that you care about most? Is it your friends who were present? Is it the food you were eating? Or is it the amazing sunset in the background that you didn't notice at the time you took…

Building An Alternative to GPS

5 Οκτωβρίου 2021 by paulkokos

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Life without GPS seems almost unimaginable these days. It is used for personal navigation, commercial aviation, military operations, monitoring of crops and wildlife, and so much more. But are we being reckless by putting all of our eggs in one basket?Today there are multiple satellite navigation systems such as Europe's…

See Inside DARPA's Incredible Subterranean Finals Course

5 Οκτωβρίου 2021 by paulkokos

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When DARPA announced that the Subterranean Challenge Final Event would take place in a giant cavern complex in Louisville, and that it would include elements of tunnels, caves, and the urban underground, we had very high hopes for what the agency would put together. And, predictably, DARPA vastly exceeded those…

Intel's Neuromorphic Chip Gets A Major Upgrade

5 Οκτωβρίου 2021 by paulkokos

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Many AIs may depend on things called neural networks, but there's very little about them that works in the way human and animal brains do. Intel has been experimenting with computers that think more like a brain does for several years now, racking up some impressive if quirky results with…

Video Friday: Mini Pupper

1 Οκτωβρίου 2021 by paulkokos

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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We'll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months; here's what we have so far (send us your events!):IROS 2021 – September 27-1, 2021 –…

Why Is Facebook Getting Into Cryptocurrency?

30 Σεπτεμβρίου 2021 by paulkokos

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Facebook is on the cusp of launching an ambitious new cryptocurrency-based payment system that it says will boost financial inclusion and slash transaction fees. But experts have questioned whether the technology will really achieve those goals.At the center of the company's plan is a digital wallet called Novi designed to…

An Inconvenient Truth About AI

29 Σεπτεμβρίου 2021 by paulkokos

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We are well into the third wave of major investment in artificial intelligence. So it's a fine time to take a historical perspective on the current success of AI. In the 1960s, the early AI researchers often breathlessly predicted that human-level intelligent machines were only 10 years away. That form…

Amazon’s Astro Is a Mobile Alexa and Cup Holder that Costs $1k

29 Σεπτεμβρίου 2021 by paulkokos

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Yesterday, Amazon announced a mobile home robot called Astro, which we've been expecting for the past several years. Astro's got wheels. It's got cameras. It's got a screen. It has two cup holders for some reason. It costs $1,000. I am very, very confused."What are we going to do with…

How the Huawei Fight is Changing the Face of 5G

29 Σεπτεμβρίου 2021 by paulkokos

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US sanctions targeting China's telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies have crippled the company, effectively forcing it out of the global smartphone market and now threatening its domestic phone business as well. They have also shrunk Huawei's market for fifth-generation wireless network infrastructure around the world.Huawei chairman Eric Xu said last week…

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