Like DeepMind and OpenAI, Wayve’s new autonomous vehicle learns to drive using “reinforcement learning” to stay within a lane.
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Opener: We are a fast-growing company with a single lofty goal: to bring personal aviation to the general public
Innovating at the leading edge of electric aviation technology, we have developed BlackFly, the world’s first ultralight all-electric fixed-wing VTOL personal aircraft.
Chinese cities will soon get thousands of self-driving buses
This is the 427 service to the future of transport.
Flying Trains Could Be Coming Your Way
A French firm has designed an airplane with removable wings that it’s presenting to Boeing, Asia to cut Europe dependence.
7 experimental aircraft tested by NASA
These experiments paved the way for today’s most advanced aircraft.
This Robotic Assistant Will Also Give You A Ride
This robotic assistant is also a self-driving bike.
Generating electrical power from waste heat
Directly converting electrical power to heat is easy. It regularly happens in your toaster, that is, if you make toast regularly. The opposite, converting heat into electrical power, isn’t so easy.
Researchers from Sandia National Laboratories have developed a tiny silicon -based device that can harness what was previously called waste heat and turn it into DC power. Their advance was recently published in Physical Review Applied.
“We have developed a new method for essentially recovering energy from waste heat. Car engines produce a lot of heat and that heat is just waste, right? So imagine if you could convert that engine heat into electrical power for a hybrid car. This is the first step in that direction, but much more work needs to be done,” said Paul Davids, a physicist and the principal investigator for the study.
