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As we wind up our discussion about the Space Race and touch on the strategies employed by China in its bid to stay on top of space and tech, we delve into the meaty topic of next generation Artificial Intelligence including GPT-3, OpenAI, CommaAI and how they are making strides in the avenues of automation, machine learning and translation and also self driving cars. Itâs a brave new world and we discuss some of the many pitfalls of this new emerging range of systems that can come with many issues along with many benefits.
I finally got footage of the Mercedes-Benz AVTR driving!! This car can crawl like a crab sideways. How frickin cool is that! Thoughts guys??
Munichâs Sono Motors are about to launch the first mass-produced solar powered car in the world, the Sion, with solar panels all over it.
Watching NASAâs RoboSimian robot, a.k.a. âClyde,â exit a vehicle by seamlessly becoming a creepy quadruped never gets old.
What if you could solve two of Earthâs biggest problems in one stroke? UC Riverside engineers have developed a way to recycle plastic waste, such as soda or water bottles, into a nanomaterial useful for energy storage.
Mihri and Cengiz Ozkan and their students have been working for years on creating improved energy storage materials from sustainable sources, such as glass bottles, beach sand, Silly Putty, and portabella mushrooms. Their latest success could reduce plastic pollution and hasten the transition to 100% clean energy.
âThirty percent of the global car fleet is expected to be electric by 2040, and high cost of raw battery materials is a challenge,â said Mihri Ozkan, a professor of electrical engineering in UCRâs Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering. âUsing waste from landfill and upcycling plastic bottles could lower the total cost of batteries while making the battery production sustainable on top of eliminating plastic pollution worldwide.â
The genes âMARCH1â and âSEPT1,â for instance, kept getting auto-formatted by Excel.
Besides China, Germany and Japan are also researching maglev trains and have so far managed top speeds of 550km/h and 603km/h respectively. By contrast, Chinaâs current high-speed trains have a top speed of between 350 and 380km/h.
The country is planning a network of superfast trains that could slash journey times on major routes.
We came across a piece today over at Motorbike Writer about Yamaha preparing a water-powered motorcycle, and while a quick Google revealed this to be nothing more than a Yamaha-sponsored thesis project from 2016, the idea itself is fascinating enough to follow down the rabbit hole.
Water-powered or water-engined are the wrong terms for this. Whatâs being proposed is a system that replaces the chain, belt or shaft drive to the rear wheel with a hydraulic system that uses water pressure to spin the back wheel. So a fluid drive is probably the better way to put it. Designer Maxime Lefebvre admits as much in the âengine breakdownâ slide, saying âto be effective, it needs a water pump.â
That water pump would be the engine. But how realistic is it to think about a water drive system? And what would be the pros and cos of such a thing? Perhaps we can look to two previous New Atlas stories for answers.