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Jul 20, 2020

CMU and Facebook AI Research use machine learning to teach robots to navigate

Posted by in categories: habitats, robotics/AI

Carnegie Mellon today showed off new research into the world of robotic navigation. With help from the team at Facebook AI Research (FAIR), the university has designed a semantic navigation that helps robots navigate around by recognizing familiar objects.

The SemExp system, which beat out Samsung to take first place in a recent Habitat ObjectNav Challenge, utilizes machine learning to train the system to recognize objects. That goes beyond simple superficial traits, however. In the example given by CMU, the robot is able to distinguish an end table from a kitchen table, and thus extrapolate in which room it’s located. That should be more straightforward, however, with a fridge, which is both pretty distinct and is largely restricted to a singe room.

Jul 20, 2020

#DTheoryofTime Designer Theme for Those Who Aspire to Live in the Present Moment

Posted by in categories: habitats, physics

“D-Theory of Time, or Digital Presentism, gives us a coherent picture of temporal ontology: In the absence of observers, the arrow of time doesn’t exist — there’s no cosmic flow of time. With that in mind, your timeless cosmic self resides as a hyperdimensional being outside the ordinary space-time dimensionality of your experiential self… In fact, if we are to create high fidelity first-person simulated realities that also may be part of intersubjectivity-based, multiplayer virtualities, D-Theory of Time gives us a clear-cut guiding principle for doing just that.” –Alex M. Vikoulov, The Physics of Time: D-Theory of Time & Temporal Mechanics.

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Jul 18, 2020

AutoML-Zero: Evolving Code that Learns

Posted by in categories: habitats, information science, mathematics, robotics/AI

The snake bites its tail

Google AI can independently discover AI methods.

Then optimizes them

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Jul 18, 2020

Amazon went online 25 years ago today — look inside the Seattle house where Jeff Bezos started the company

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In the ’90s, Jeff Bezos rented a house in the Seattle suburbs where he would launch an online bookstore from his garage. That house — billed as the birthplace of Amazon — sold last year for an estimated $1.5 million.

Jul 16, 2020

Wildfire near Evergreen about 75% contained, all evacuations lifted

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The Elephant Butte Fire was reported off Upper Bear Creek Road near Evergreen the afternoon of 7/13/20, and up to 1,000 homes received evacuation notices.

Jul 13, 2020

How 3D Printers Could Build Futuristic Moon Colony

Posted by in categories: 3D printing, habitats, space

Circa 2019


The European Space Agency (ESA) study is investigating how practical constructing a manned base on the moon only using 3D printing technology could be, given that it would rely primarily on lunar dirt for building materials.

“Terrestrial 3D printing technology has produced entire structures,” Laurent Pambaguian, who heads the project for ESA, said in a statement. “Our industrial team investigated if it could similarly be employed to build a lunar habitat.”

Jul 13, 2020

New Algorithm Coordinates Complex Behaviors Between Hundreds of Robots in a Fraction of the Time

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A new approach to designing motion plans for multiple robots grows “trees” in the search space to solve complex problems in a fraction of the time.

In one of the more memorable scenes from the 2002 blockbuster film Minority Report, Tom Cruise is forced to hide from a swarm of spider-like robots scouring a towering apartment complex. While most viewers are likely transfixed by the small, agile bloodhound replacements, a computer engineer might marvel instead at their elegant control system.

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Jul 12, 2020

The Winnebago Heli-Home Was a Real Flying RV That Needs to Make a Comeback in 2020

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A decade before Spaceballs, Winnebago thought about making RVs fly.

Jul 10, 2020

Supergenes – Massive Blocks of Genes – May Help Fill Lingering Gaps in Darwin’s Theories of Evolution

Posted by in categories: evolution, habitats

Supergenes Play a Larger Role in Evolution Than Previously Thought

Massive blocks of genes—inherited together ‘plug and play’ style—may play a larger role in evolutionary adaption than previously thought, according to new research in Nature.

Biologists identified 37 of these so-called ‘supergenes’ in wild sunflower populations, and found they govern the modular transfer of a large range of traits important for adaptation to local habitats. Those include seed size, timing of flowering, as well as the ability to withstand environmental stresses such as drought or limited nutrient availability, among many others.

Jul 9, 2020

3D-printed Mars habitat

Posted by in categories: 3D printing, habitats, robotics/AI, space

AI SpaceFactory, a space architecture and technology design agency, recently won first prize in NASA’s competition to build a prototype Mars habitat.

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