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Tesla hasn’t unveiled its next generation human robot in the form of the app named GEN-3 Teslabot, bringing with it significant advancements in the field of humanoid robotics, merging state-of-the-art engineering with a design inspired by human anatomy. This next-generation robot demonstrates exceptional dexterity and precision, setting a new benchmark for what humanoid robots can accomplish. From catching a tennis ball mid-air to envisioning tasks like threading a needle, the Teslabot is poised to reshape how robots interact with and adapt to the world around them.
Wouldn’t it be great if robots didn’t just assemble cars or vacuum your living room but perform tasks requiring the finesse of human hands—threading a needle, playing a piano, or even catching a tennis ball mid-air. It sounds like science fiction, doesn’t it? Yet, Tesla’s latest innovation, the GEN-3 Teslabot, is bringing us closer to that reality. With its human-inspired design and new engineering, this robot is redefining what we thought machines could do.
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Elon Musk’s ‘fully autonomous’ cars will, like other robotaxi vehicles, rely on remote human pilots.
The Matrix is a groundbreaking AI model capable of generating infinite, high-quality video worlds in real time, offering unmatched interactivity and adaptability. Developed using advanced techniques like the Video Diffusion Transformer and Swin-DPM, it enables seamless, frame-level precision for creating dynamic, responsive simulations. This innovation surpasses traditional systems, making it a game-changer for gaming, autonomous vehicle testing, and virtual environments.
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However, the IMO warned that lava may still continue to flow beneath this solidified crust toward the protective barriers near the Blue Lagoon, though its advance has significantly slowed.
Over the last week, the constant flow of the lava has gradually engulfed the tourist destination’s car park and continues to grow in size.
The Blue Lagoon was evacuated ahead of the lava’s arrival, as were 50 homes in the town of Grindavík, which is home to 3,800 residents.
CycloTech’s all-electric flying vehicle is capable of controlled descents even in stormy weather with motors similar to those used for tug boats.
In the simplest terms, nearly every modern car on the planet uses disk brakes: a rotor attached to a hub with a caliper with brake pads fixed to the control arm at each wheel. The driver presses the brake pedal and hydraulic fluid is pushed down the brake lines into the caliper, expanding the pistons and pushing the brake pads against the rotor, slowing down the rotation of the rotor connected to the hub, thus slowing down the wheel.
There are other systems, like drum brakes, air brakes, band brakes, the Flintstones method, et cetera, that have also been around since the dawn of the automotive industry. The concept almost always remains the same: using friction to slow down. And so it doesn’t go unsaid, yes, there are compression brake systems as well, but that’s entirely different.
Mercedes-Benz has put a new spin on an age-old concept with what it calls “in-drive brakes” for electric vehicles. The system being developed at the company’s research and development department in Sindelfingen, Germany, integrates the brakes right into the drivetrain, in an arrangement that works very much like a transmission brake. It resembles clutch plates – but with a unique twist.
On a cool morning this summer, I visited a former shopping mall in Mountain View, California, that is now a Google office building. On my way inside, I passed a small museum of the company’s past “moonshots,” including Waymo’s first self-driving cars. Upstairs, Jonathan Tompson and Danny Driess, research scientists in Google DeepMind’s robotics division, stood in the center of what looked like a factory floor, with wires everywhere.
At a couple of dozen stations, operators leaned over tabletops, engaged in various kinds of handicraft. They were not using their own hands—instead, they were puppeteering pairs of metallic robotic arms. The setup, known as ALOHA, “a low-cost open-source hardware system for bimanual teleoperation,” was once Zhao’s Ph.D. project at Stanford. At the end of each arm was a claw that rotated on a wrist joint; it moved like the head of a velociraptor, with a slightly stiff grace. One woman was using her robotic arms to carefully lower a necklace into the open drawer of a jewelry case. Behind her, another woman prized apart the seal on a ziplock bag, and nearby a young man swooped his hands forward as his robotic arms folded a child’s shirt. It was close, careful work, and the room was quiet except for the wheeze of mechanical joints opening and closing. “It’s quite surprising what you can and can’t do with parallel jaw grippers,” Tompson said, as he offered me a seat at an empty station. “I’ll show you how to get started.”
Using the European XFEL free-electron laser, researchers demonstrate terawatt-scale, attosecond hard X-ray pulses. Ten pulse trains per second, each containing hundreds of pulses at megahertz repetition rates, are achieved. Such short and intense pulses at high repetition rate enable unprecedented damage-free X-ray measurements with attosecond temporal resolution.
Discovery enables manufacturing of ultrathin solar panels, advanced optoelectronics.
By creating a new way for light and matter to interact, researchers at the University of California, Irvine have enabled the manufacturing of ultrathin silicon solar cells that could help spread the energy-converting technology to a vast range of applications, including thermoelectric clothing and onboard vehicle and device charging.
The development, subject of a paper recently published as the cover story in the journal ACS Nano, hinges on the UC Irvine researchers’ conversion of pure silicon from an indirect to a direct bandgap semiconductor through the way it interacts with light.
