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Nov 1, 2022

Researchers use lasers to trick autonomous cars and remove pedestrians from view

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

Software upgrades could help resolve the issue.

A collaboration of researchers from the U.S. and Japan has demonstrated that a laser attack could be used to blind autonomous cars and delete pedestrians from their view, endangering those in its path, according to a press release.

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Nov 1, 2022

Half Company designs transport network that combines cable cars with AI

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A network of autonomous cable cars transports people and goods around a city in this concept developed by transport design studio Half Company.

Halfgrid is a proposal for a city-wide transport system that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to move suspended capsules to their designated location.

It is billed as “a fully autonomous transit system for people and goods, running on a separate layer above the ground and based on the smallest unit possible — an individual person-sized pod”.

Nov 1, 2022

Digital mapmaking innovations are revolutionizing travel

Posted by in categories: mapping, transportation

GPS for scuba divers, cars with built-in holographic maps, and other new tech mean ’you’ll never get lost again.‘.

Nov 1, 2022

One-stroke is Enough! E-Rex Petrol Engine Revealed

Posted by in categories: economics, energy, transportation

FOR as long as internal combustion has ruled the roads, vehicles have been fitted with just three basic types of engine: four-stroke, two-stroke, and rotary.

Each differs from the next with regard to its power density and fuel economy, but the general premise of each is very similar. Air and fuel go in, get ignited, and push the piston (or rotor) which in turn rotates the crankshaft creating motion.

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Oct 31, 2022

World’s largest plane flies with a hypersonic vehicle for the first time

Posted by in category: transportation

The flight lasted for five hours and six minutes over the Mojave Desert.

For the first time on Friday, October 28, Stratolaunch’s Roc, the world’s largest plane, flew a prototype of the Talon-A separation test vehicle, TA-0, its air-launched hypersonic vehicle.

According to a press release, the flight centered on measuring the aerodynamic loads on the Talon-A vehicle. “The loads captured in flight will validate aerodynamic predictions to ensure the release mechanism will function as designed,” it said.

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Oct 31, 2022

GITEX 2022 — The largest exhibition of robots, technology and artificial intelligence in Dubai

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

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Oct 30, 2022

Engineering tribute: Late John DeLorean’s daughter builds new car in his honor

Posted by in categories: engineering, transportation

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Kat DeLorean has built a new company to engineer the vehicle.

Kat DeLorean, daughter of legendary automotive engineer John DeLorean is building a new sports car to honor her father’s memory, according to a blog of the car’s site.

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Oct 30, 2022

China: Lithium batteries may soon power ‘world’s largest fleet’ of submarines

Posted by in categories: sustainability, transportation

With an estimated 60 to 70 vessels, China allegedly possesses the largest fleet of conventional submarines in the world.

The Chinese Navy could finally use lithium technology to replace the lead-acid batteries that are now used in its fleet of conventional submarines.

Since lithium batteries had a higher risk of catching fire or exploding, the navy was hesitant to replace the submarine fleet’s current batteries with them.

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Oct 30, 2022

Andrej Karpathy: Tesla AI, Self-Driving, Optimus, Aliens, and AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #333

Posted by in categories: alien life, Elon Musk, robotics/AI, transportation

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Oct 28, 2022

Latest Computer Vision Research From Cornell and Adobe Proposes An Artificial Intelligence (AI) Method To Transfer The Artistic Features Of An Arbitrary Style Image To A 3D Scene

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation, virtual reality

Art is a fascinating yet extremely complex discipline. Indeed, the creation of artistic images is often not only a time-consuming problem but also requires a significant amount of expertise. If this problem holds for 2D artworks, imagine extending it to dimensions beyond the image plane, such as time (in animated content) or 3D space (with sculptures or virtual environments). This introduces new constraints and challenges, which are addressed by this paper.

Previous results involving 2D stylization focus on video contents split frame by frame. The result is that the generated individual frames achieve high-quality stylization but often lead to flickering artifacts in the generated video. This is due to the lack of temporal coherence of the produced frames. Furthermore, they do not investigate the 3D environment, which would increase the complexity of the task. Other works focusing on 3D stylization suffer from geometrically inaccurate reconstructions of point cloud or triangle meshes and the lack of style details. The reason lies in the different geometrical properties of starting mesh and produced mesh, as the style is applied after a linear transformation.

The proposed method termed Artistic Radiance Fields (ARF), can transfer the artistic features from a single 2D image to a real-world 3D scene, leading to artistic novel view renderings that are faithful to the input style image (Fig. 1).