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While a multitude of companies are jostling to compete in the emerging electric VTOL air taxi market, itâs very rare to find aircraft designs carrying more than five people. But British multinational giant GKN Aerospace is looking into something much bigger: âpark ânâ rideâ Skybus transports capable of carrying 30 to 50 passengers across congested parts of town, moving affordable public transport into the third dimension.
This initiative is part of the UKâs Future Flight Challenge, which is using some ÂŁ125 million (US$171 million) of government cash and a further ÂŁ175 million (US$239 million) from the industrial sector to fund a wide range of projects related to electric aviation, including drone swarm and delivery technologies, air traffic control that can handle a huge influx of autonomous drones and aircraft, eVTOL air taxis, sensor technologies, industrial inspection UAVs and other projects like the pop-up eVTOL airport in Coventry we wrote about yesterday.
Where most passenger-carrying eVTOL projects are envisaged as on-demand Uber-style services connecting individual passengers or small groups with ride-share services at either end, the Skybus project takes a public transport approach, with large birds ferrying significant numbers of people over city routes on fixed schedules.
San Jose-based robotics company Fetch unveiled its latest robot this morning. The PalletTransport1500 is an autonomous bot designed specifically to replace forklift uses in warehouses. The systems, which are designed to pick up and delivery pallets, are capable of sporting payloads of up to 2504 pounds.
The device joins a number of different robotic forklift solutions from various companies, including Toyota. Though Amazonâs own Kiva Systems-produced robots are likely still the best-known pallet moving robotics in the game.
The system was developed with Honeywellâs Intelligratedâs Momentum warehouse software. Fetch, of course, already offers a number of different warehouse robotic solutions, building out a kind of autonomous ecosystem. The companyâs systems are notable for their relative flexibility over other full-scale solutions.
On Sunday, February 72021, at 1 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, the U.S. Transhumanist Party will host a Debate on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and ExisteâŠDebate on Artificial General Intelligence and Existential Risk: David J. Kelley and Connor Leahy.
Interested.
Summary: A new AI system is not only able to analyze potential new variants of COVID-19, it can also vaccine design cycles within minutes, researchers report.
Source: USC
An intelligent material that learns by physically changing itself, similar to how the human brain works, could be the foundation of a completely new generation of computers. Radboud physicists working toward this so-called âquantum brainâ have made an important step. They have demonstrated that they can pattern and interconnect a network of single atoms, and mimic the autonomous behavior of neurons and synapses in a brain. They report their discovery in Nature Nanotechnology.
Considering the growing global demand for computing capacity, more and more data centers are necessary, all of which leave an ever-expanding energy footprint. âIt is clear that we have to find new strategies to store and process information in an energy efficient way,â says project leader Alexander Khajetoorians, Professor of Scanning Probe Microscopy at Radboud University.
âThis requires not only improvements to technology, but also fundamental research in game changing approaches. Our new idea of building a âquantum brainâ based on the quantum properties of materials could be the basis for a future solution for applications in artificial intelligence.â
In the coming Age of Superintelligence [and automation] everyone should be entitled to social dividend, âfreeâ money such as UBI, just for being alive. We should not forget that the wealthiest of us would not be as fortunate without civilization. Otherwise, Jeff Bezos would have to forage for food in the Amazon jungle all by himself. Being a human today is more than enough of a fair contribution to receive free money from the government. Going forward weâll see more and more prominent voices vouching for UBI.
#HybridEconomy #UniversalBasicIncome #UBI #BasicIncome #SocialDividend #TaxWallStreet #WealthTax #InheritanceTax
A new project will see scientists use human brain stem cells on microchips to push the boundaries of artificial intelligence.
Attacks on vulnerable computer networks and cyber-infrastructureâoften called zero-day attacksâcan quickly overwhelm traditional defenses, resulting in billions of dollars of damage and requiring weeks of manual patching work to shore up the systems after the intrusion.
Using AI and computer automation, Technion researchers have developed a âconjecture generatorâ that creates mathematical conjectures, which are considered to be the starting point for developing mathematical theorems. They have already used it to generate a number of previously unknown formulas. The study, which was published in the journal Nature, was carried out by undergraduates from different faculties under the tutelage of Assistant Professor Ido Kaminer of the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the Technion.