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Aug 20, 2021

Elon Musk Unveils Tesla Bot a humanoid robot set to debut in 2022

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, robotics/AI, supercomputing, sustainability, transportation

On Thursday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveiled the Tesla Bot, which runs on the same AI used in Tesla’s autonomous vehicles. This surprise reveal was shared at the end of Tesla’s AI Day presentation. Musk revealed very few details about the humanoid robot besides the fact that it is 5″ 8′ and weighs 125 pounds.

The Tesla Bot is to be built from lightweight materials, and its head will be fitted with the autopilot cameras used by Tesla’s vehicles for sensing the environment. The Bot will be operated by Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) computer.

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Aug 20, 2021

SpaceX Starship & Super Heavy Orbital Timeline Update!

Posted by in categories: space travel, sustainability

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Today we’ll talk Starship and Super Heavy timeline! How long until SpaceX lights the candle again? Heatshield, tank farm, prototype testing. What’s left to do, and can we make an educated guess as to how many more weeks? Yes, we can! Let’s find out!

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Aug 20, 2021

Elon Musk says Tesla’s robot will make physical work a ‘choice’

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, robotics/AI, space, sustainability

Are you ready?


After dominating the electric vehicle market and throwing his hat into the billionaire space race, Tesla boss Elon Musk announced the latest frontier he’s aiming to conquer: humanoid robots.

The irascible entrepreneur said Thursday he would have an initial prototype of an androgynous “Tesla Bot” by next year.

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Aug 19, 2021

China to harvest sun’s energy in space and beam it to Earth for power by 2030

Posted by in categories: military, solar power, space, sustainability

Over the last few decades, various forms of solar power stations have been proposed from around the world but they remained theoretical because of major technical challenges.

At Bishan, Chinese researchers would first need to prove that wireless power transfer worked over a long distance.


Civilian and military researchers will look at applications for the technology amid concerns about radiation and the potential for beams misfired from space.

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Aug 19, 2021

These electric submarines map the seafloor to make way for wind power

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, sustainability, transportation

In March, the departments of Energy, Interior and Commerce said they were aiming for U.S. offshore wind capacity to hit 30 gigawatts (GW) by 2,030 a hugely optimistic goal that would require thousands of new wind turbines to be installed off the Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf coasts.

With federal support locked in, now it’s up to developers and operators to figure out where it’s safe to install offshore wind farms and pursue permits.

Bedrock, a Richmond, California, start-up, wants to help them map the seafloor using electric autonomous underwater vehicles (e-AUV) that can launch right from the shore.

Aug 19, 2021

Fully automated container storage system makes first successful trial

Posted by in categories: energy, sustainability, transportation

DP World has completed testing of the Boxbay fully automated container storage system at its Jebel Ali terminal in Dubai, accomplishing more than 63,000 container moves since the facility was commissioned earlier this year.

The facility, which can hold 792 containers at a time, exceeded expectations, delivering faster and more energy-efficient than anticipated, the Dubai-headquartered terminal operator said.

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Aug 19, 2021

Silicon Valley Neologisms: The Palantir Edition

Posted by in categories: climatology, robotics/AI, satellites, sustainability

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Do you remember the Zuckerland metaverse? (Yes, I know he borrowed the word, but when you are president of a digital country, does anyone dare challenge Zuck the First, Le Roi Numérique?)

Palantir Technologies (the Seeing Stone outfit with the warm up jacket fashion bug) introduced a tasty bit of jargon-market speak in its Q22021earnings call:

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Aug 18, 2021

The Ultimate Growing Platform

Posted by in categories: climatology, sustainability

AIR

Adaptive Air Control

Whether it is located in snowy mountains, scorching deserts, or smoggy cities, the Greenery S farm’s robust insulation and complete suite of climate control components work together to recreate the perfect growing environment 365 days a year.

Aug 18, 2021

The Most Expensive Listing in Southern Nevada Asks $32.5 Million

Posted by in categories: solar power, sustainability, transportation

The 14,207-square-foot home in Henderson features views of the Las Vegas Strip, smart-home technology, solar power and a 12-car garage.

Aug 17, 2021

Electric cars and batteries: how will the world produce enough?

Posted by in categories: chemistry, government, sustainability, transportation

Battery-and carmakers are already spending billions of dollars on reducing the costs of manufacturing and recycling electric-vehicle (EV) batteries — spurred in part by government incentives and the expectation of forthcoming regulations. National research funders have also founded centres to study better ways to make and recycle batteries. Because it is still less expensive, in most instances, to mine metals than to recycle them, a key goal is to develop processes to recover valuable metals cheaply enough to compete with freshly mined ones. “The biggest talker is money,” says Jeffrey Spangenberger, a chemical engineer at Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, Illinois, who manages a US federally funded lithium-ion battery-recycling initiative, called ReCell.


Reducing the use of scarce metals — and recycling them — will be key to the world’s transition to electric vehicles.