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Video: $16k G1 humanoid rises up to smash nuts, twist and twirl

The G1 looks like a much more complete package than the H1 before it, having been treated to a helmet head and illuminated visage (packing 3D LiDAR sensors and a depth camera) as well as human-like robotic hands for the floor exercises and three-fingered grippers to show off its skills in the home and workplace.

May 13, 2024
Video: $16k G1 humanoid rises up to smash nuts, twist and twirl
Quantum computing takes a giant leap forward with breakthrough discovery

Scientists at the University of Melbourne have come up with a way to engineer silicon to remove the silicon 29 and 30 atoms, making it the perfect material to make quantum computers at scale, and with high accuracy…The result — the world’s purest silicon — provides a pathway to the creation of one million qubits, which may be fabricated to the size of a pinhead.

https://www.marktechpost.com/2024/05/11/aloe-a-family-of-fine-tuned-open-healthcare-llms-that-achieves-state-of-the-art-results-through-model-merging-and-prompting-strategies/

May 12, 2024
Quantum computing takes a giant leap forward with breakthrough discovery
New crop-spraying technologies are more efficient than ever

Pesticide use could be cut by up to 9…Precision spraying, though, is the future. This is where ai algorithms come in.

May 8, 2024
New crop-spraying technologies are more efficient than ever
AlphaFold 3 predicts the structure and interactions of all of life’s molecules

By accurately predicting the structure of proteins, DNA, RNA, ligands and more, and how they interact, .. hope it will transform our understanding of the biological world and drug discovery.

May 8, 2024
AlphaFold 3 predicts the structure and interactions of all of life’s molecules
Navigating Chemical Space with Latent Flows

Recent progress of deep generative models in the vision and language domain has stimulated significant interest in more structured data generation such as molecules…propose a new framework, ChemFlow, to traverse chemical space through navigating the latent space learned by molecule generative models through flows… transports the mass of the molecular distribution to the region with desired molecular properties or structure diversity. 

May 7, 2024
Navigating Chemical Space with Latent Flows
Exploring the mysterious alphabet of sperm whales

…reveal complex communication patterns in sperm whales, deepening our understanding of animal language systems.

May 7, 2024
Exploring the mysterious alphabet of sperm whales
Killer Asteroid Hunters Spot 27,500 Overlooked Space Rocks

With the help of Google Cloud, scientists churned through hundreds of thousands of images of the night sky to reveal that the solar system is filled with unseen objects.

May 5, 2024
Killer Asteroid Hunters Spot 27,500 Overlooked Space Rocks
GitHub Copilot Workspace: Welcome to the Copilot-native developer environment

We’re redefining the developer environment with GitHub Copilot Workspace - where any developer can go from idea, to code, to software all in natural language.

May 4, 2024
GitHub Copilot Workspace: Welcome to the Copilot-native developer environment
Chinese scientists create ‘water battery’ that can hold much more energy than lithium cells: study

…developed a water-based battery with nearly twice the energy density of a traditional lithium battery, which could open up aqueous batteries for use in [electric vehicles](https://www.scmp.com/topics/electric-cars), according to the team…The iodine and bromine-based aqueous battery had an energy density of 1200 watt-hours per litre (Wh/L) compared to the 700Wh/L of traditional non-aqueous lithium batteries

May 4, 2024
Chinese scientists create ‘water battery’ that can hold much more energy than lithium cells: study
Refined AI approach improves noninvasive brain-computer interface performance

…the work demonstrates the excellent performance of noninvasive BCI for a brain-controlled computerized device…Moreover, the capability of the group's AI-powered BCI suggests a direct application to continuously controlling a robotic device.

May 3, 2024
Refined AI approach improves noninvasive brain-computer interface performance