Sit! Stay! Fetch! Map a Martian cave!
Robotic “Mars Dogs” could use artificial intelligence and sensors to investigate the Martian surface and map hidden lava tunnels.
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IEEE BAU Robotics and Automation Chapter
✨ ′′ Using a high speed 5 G network, a London surgeon has performed remote experimental surgery for a banana based in the U.S. state of California.
This evolution opens up prospects for complicated remote surgeries without going through the trouble of future travel.
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✨باستخدام شبكة 5G فائقة السرعة قام جرّاح في لندن بإجراء عملية جراحية تجريبية عن بُعد لموزة موجودة في ولاية كاليفورنيا الأمريكية.
هذا التطور يفتح الآفاق لإجراء عمليات جراحية معقدة عن بعد دون تكبد عناء السفر مستقبلاً.” #IEEE_BAU_RAS
New autosteering system works without GPS
“When was the last time you lost a correction signal when running a tractor or combine in the field? In Russia, that’s an even bigger problem, but because of that, a new tool is being deployed — a vision-based guidance system. That’s where Cognitive Agro Pilot comes in. “This system detects obstacles, including people, animals, metallic objects and stones along its way, without GPS navigation and RTK positioning,” says Olga Uskova, CEO, Cognitive, based in Moscow. “Cognitive Agro Pilot can operate in territories with a weak satellite signal.” The company has developed a system that uses a high-definition camera in an armored housing that can “see” ahead. Tied to an artificial intelligence system, the systems provide precision guidance. This is more than following a row.”
Russian firm Cognitive Agro Pilot is using computer vision and machine learning for precision guidance.
Mass Extinctions Happen Every 27 Million Years
(Checks math.)
Scientists have new evidence that Earth’s many periodic mass extinctions follow a cycle of about 27 million years, connecting the five major mass extinctions with more minor ones occurring throughout Earth’s life-fostering timespan. The artificial intelligence analysis could also shift how evolutionary scientists think about the aftermath of mass extinctions.
LiquidPiston’s “inside-out” rotary X-Engine wins Army research contract
Connecticut-based company LiquidPiston is developing a portable generator for the US Army that uses its X-Engine, a fresh and extremely powerful take on the rotary engine that’ll deliver as much power as the Army’s current-gen-set at one-fifth the size.
We’ve written a few times before about the fascinating LiquidPiston rotary engine. It’s not a Wankel – indeed, it’s closer to an inside-out Wankel – and with only two moving parts, it’s able to deliver extraordinary power density at up to 1.5 horsepower per pound (0.45 kg).
According to co-founder and CEO Alec Schkolnik, the X Engine design combines the high compression ratio and direct injection of a diesel engine with the constant volume combustion process of an Otto cycle engine and the over-expansion abilities of an Atkinson cycle engine, while solving the lubrication and sealing issues of the Wankel rotary engine and delivering huge power and efficiency. Check out the design being used in a go-kart and an unmanned aircraft in the video below.
The Air Force Just Let an AI Take Over Systems of a Military Jet
The flight marks the first known time an AI has to been used to control a US military aircraft.
“This is the first time this has ever happened,” assistant Air Force Secretary Will Roper told the newspaper.
The AI took care of some highly specific tasks and was never in control of actually flying the plane — or, notably, any weapon systems.
Wheels Are Better Than Feet for Legged Robots
ANYmal demonstrates how hybrid mobility can benefit quadrupedal robots.
How Self Driving Cars Will Change The World
There is no doubt that the future of transport is autonomous. Tesla is already rolling out a beta version of full self driving and that will be released fully in 2021, I am sure. From robotaxis to freight transport, our lives will get easier, cheaper and more convenient and for those with current mobility issues, the change will be even greater. Here I look at some of the ways that all our lives, the environment and the places we live will change…for the better. I cannot wait…can you?
In The Mind Blowing Future Of Transportation — How Self Driving Cars Will Change The World, I will look at the future of autonomous vehicles and how they will change our world…for the better.
Autonomous cars are the future, and whether it is geo-constrained services like Waymo or Tesla full self driving which could well be fully rolled out in 2021, self driving cars are the future of transportation, and many other vehicle sectors, such as long haul transportation.
They will make the roads safer and they will give us back massive amounts of previously wasted time, to do with as we desire.
Are you looking forward to our autonomous future?