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WEB4 days ago · This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through August 31) Singularity Hub Staff - August 31, 2024. Some Brains Develop Alzheimer’s—Others Don’t. A New Cell Map Could Explain Why. Shelly Fan - August 30, 2024.
Nanorobots: Where We Are Today and Why Their Future Has …
WEBMay 16, 2016 · The new nano-engines could lead to nanorobots small enough to enter living cells to fight disease, the researchers say. Professor Jeremy Baumberg from the Cavendish Laboratory, who led the research, has named the devices ‘actuating nanotransducers’ (ANTs). ‘Like real ants, they produce …
This Gates-Backed Startup Builds Modular Homes Out of Energy …
WEBAug 3, 2022 · Vantem’s energy-efficient prefabricated homes are made of structural panels. The panels were designed as a replacement for brick and cement, which are expensive, difficult to make, and heavy on emissions. Each panel consists of an insulating layer sandwiched by tiles made of a cement-like material. Since the panels are more similar to …
Boxabl Foldable Houses: Affordable Housing Solution - Singularity …
WEBJul 29, 2021 · Boxabl estimates these costs could range from $5,000 on the low end up to $50,000, depending on location and complexity of the site. The land you put the house on is a separate cost too, and would obviously vary widely based on location. Boxabl will soon open a new factory in Las Vegas that will be able to produce one house every 90 minutes ...
Thinking Like a Human: What It Means to Give AI a Theory of Mind
WEBSep 19, 2018 · To Dr. Alan Winfield, a professor in robotic ethics at the University of West England, theory of mind is the secret sauce that will eventually let AI “understand” the needs of people, things, and other robots. “The idea of putting a simulation inside a robot… is a really neat way of allowing it to actually predict the future,” he said.
Flippy the Fast Food Robot Just Got Hired in 100 Restaurants
WEBFeb 17, 2022 · According to Bell, “Flippy 2 has more than 120 configurations built into its technology and is the only robotic fry station currently being produced at scale.”. The initial commercial version of Flippy went on the market for $30,000 in 2020, but Miso’s aiming to get the price down to $20,000. There’s also $1,500 monthly fee for the ...
Why Interstellar Travel Will Be Possible Sooner Than You Think
WEBJun 18, 2017 · The brainchild of Russian-born tech entrepreneur billionaire Yuri Milner, Breakthrough Starshot was announced in April 2016 at a press conference joined by renowned physicists including Stephen Hawking and Freeman Dyson. While still early, the current vision is that thousands of wafer-sized chips attached to large, silver lightsails will be placed into Earth orbit and accelerated by the ...
The Promise—and Complications—of Domestic Robots
WEBDec 6, 2018 · The Promise—and Complications—of Domestic Robots. Every year, for just a few days in a major city, a small team of roboticists get to live the dream: ordering around their own personal robot butlers. In carefully-constructed replicas of a restaurant scene or a domestic setting, these robots perform any number of simple algorithmic tasks.
Michio Kaku: Invisibility Cloaks, Programmable Matter, Singularity
WEBNov 10, 2010 · Michio Kaku - theoretical physicist, science advocate, and Einstein hairstyle aficianado. Futurists come in all shapes, sizes, and flavors. Michio Kaku is like a giant coconut ice cream cone of techno-realism. The seasoned physicist is a professor at CUNY with an impressive resume of publications – he was among the …
This Neural Network Built by Japanese Researchers Can ‘Read Minds’
WEBJan 14, 2018 · Despite this, the Japanese team certainly isn’t alone in its efforts to advance mind-reading AI. Elon Musk famously founded Neuralink with the purpose of building brain-machine interfaces to connect people and computers. Kernel is working on making chips that can read and write neural code. Whether it’s to recreate images, mine our deep ...