#438980 Ford partners with U-M on robotics ...

Posted on March 17, 2021 by Android

Digit marches on two legs across the floor of the University of Michigan's Ford Motor Co. Robotics Building, while Mini-Cheetah—staccato-like—does the same on four and the yellow-legged Cassie steps deliberately side-to-side.[Read more…]

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#437445 Humanoid Robotic Barista

Posted on March 16, 2021 by Android

The “Robotic Coffee Master” by OrionStar is a robot coffee brewing guru that uses expert brewing techniques with millimeter-level stability and accuracy to make the perfect cuppa every time. This robotic barista incorporates 3,000 hours of A.I. learning, 30,000 hours of robotic arm testing, as well as comprehensive machine vision training.

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#438925 Nanophotonics Could Be the ‘Dark ...

Posted on March 16, 2021 by Android

The race to build the first practical quantum computers looks like a two-horse contest between machines built from superconducting qubits and those that use trapped ions. But new research suggests a third contender—machines based on optical technology—could sneak up on the inside.
The most advanced quantum computers today are the ones built by Google and IBM, which rely on superconducting circuits to generate the qubits that form the basis of quantum calculations. They are now able to string together tens […] Continue Reading…

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#438886 This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From ...

Posted on March 14, 2021 by Android

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
This Chip for AI Works Using Light, Not ElectronsWill Knight | Wired“As demand for artificial intelligence grows, so does hunger for the computer power needed to keep AI running. Lightmatter, a startup born at MIT, is betting that AI’s voracious hunger will spawn demand for a fundamentally different kind of computer chip—one that uses light to perform key calculations. ‘Either we invent new kinds of computers to continue,’ says Lightmatter CEO Nick Harris, ‘or AI slows down.’i”
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With This […] Continue Reading…

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#437351 Human or Humanoid?

Posted on March 10, 2021 by Android

Humanoids illustrating how the gap between man and machine is shrinking almost every day.

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