To date, teaching a robot to perform a task has usually involved either direct coding, trial-and-error tests or handholding the machine. Soon, though, you might just have to perform that task like you would any other day. MIT scientists have developed a system, Planning with Uncertain Specifications (PUnS), that helps bots learn complicated tasks when they’d otherwise stumble, such as setting the dinner table. Instead of the usual method where the robot receives rewards for performing the right actions, PUnS has the bot hold “beliefs” over a variety of specifications and use a language (linear temporal logic) that lets it reason about what it has to do right now and in the future.
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Watch This Guy Catch a Laser Beam With His Bare Hands
YouTuber Tom Scott has a new video where he stands in front of a laser and stops it in midair. “Can this burn me?” he asks the guest expert at one point. (The answer is just, “Yeah.”)
Universe Size Comparison
I’m nothing… You are nothing… We all nothing…
Coronavirus: Takeda Pursues Plasma-Derived Treatment; Alnylam and Vir Eye siRNA Therapy
Takeda said it has begun development of TAK-888, an anti-SARS-CoV-2 polyclonal hyperimmune globulin (H-IG) designed to treat high-risk individuals with COVID-19.
Takeda’s H-IGs are plasma derived-therapies that have previously shown effectiveness in treating of severe acute viral respiratory infections. Such therapies are designed to concentrate pathogen-specific antibodies from plasma collected from recovered patients or vaccinated donors in the future. By transferring the antibodies to a new patient, Takeda reasons, a person’s immune system can better respond to the infection and increase their chance of recovery.
Two big-name biopharmas—Takeda Pharmaceutical and Alnylam Pharmaceuticals—have separately entered the scramble to develop new treatments for SARS-CoV-2 infection, the virus identified as the cause of the global COVID-19 outbreak. [NIH].
This Futuristic Tire Concept Regrows Its Tread
Another year, another wacky Goodyear tire concept.
Product Self-healing Repair Mortar MR3
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