Yesterday, Boston Dynamics announced it was retiring its hydraulic Atlas robot. Atlas has long been the standard bearer of advanced humanoid robots. Over the...
AI models are power hogs.
As the algorithms grow and become more complex, they’re increasingly taxing current computer chips. Multiple companies have designed chips tailored...
ROBOTICS
Is Robotics About to Have Its Own ChatGPT Moment?
Melissa Heikkilä | MIT Technology Review
"For decades, roboticists have more or less focused on controlling robots’...
Growing a substitute liver inside a human body sounds like science fiction.
Yet a patient with severe liver damage just received an injection that could...
COMPUTING
To Build a Better AI Supercomputer, Let There Be Light
Will Knight | Wired
"Lightmatter wants to directly connect hundreds of thousands or even millions of...
How did the building blocks of life originate?
The question has long vexed scientists. Early Earth was dotted with pools of water rich in chemicals—a...
For quantum computers to go from research curiosities to practically useful devices, researchers need to get their errors under control. New research from Microsoft...