These products may not be as helpful as we thought they were.
Scientists at Stanford University have designed a new paint that could help reduce our growing reliance on air conditioners and heaters.
It comes in an array of colors, and if used properly, it could seriously slash electricity bills and emissions.
The paint is capable of reflecting up to 80 percent of mid-infrared light from the Sun, which is 10 times more reflection than conventional colored paints.
Transparent solar windows are not only generating news as demonstration projects—many have already been set up. On the list of installations for UE Power are its own offices in Redwood City, California, at the R&D facility of its partner in Northwood, Ohio, a commercial office building in Boulder, Colorado, and in Tokyo, Japan. In addition, it has an installation at Michigan State University. UbiQD also claims to have installations in multiple U.S. states, which include a Holiday Inn hotel, its own headquarters in Los Alamos, and the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colorado.
What’s the premium for transparency?
UbiQD’s product isn’t commercially available yet, but McDaniel expects the premium for transparent solar power to be not more than 30 percent over ordinary windows. He said that “Traditional solar cells are not sold at a cost per watt, not based on area, like windows. The additional window cost, per watt, is similar to utility-scale solar. We have a similar payback time to traditional solar [before incentives].”
An innovative bimanual robot displays tactile sensitivity close to human-level dexterity using AI.
BEIJING, Aug. 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — On August 22, the 2023 World Robot Conference (WRC), which was held in Beijing with the theme of “Spurring Innovation for the Future,” came to a big success. The 2023 World Robotics Expo and the 2023 World Robot Contest took place at the same time, bringing together about 160 robotics companies and scientific research institutions from around the globe, and showcasing close to 600 advanced technologies and products, over 320 representatives from international organizations, academicians, renowned experts, and entrepreneurs at home and abroad have been invited to attend.
As a general robotics company, Dreame Technology took center stage for the first time at the World Robot Conference. It unveiled a wide range of robots, including general-purpose humanoid robots, consumer-grade bionic quadruped robots, industrial-grade quadruped robots, wireless Robotic Pool Cleaner, commercial food delivery robots and floor-cleaning robots. This range highlighted Dreame’s broad competitiveness across the fields of R&D for robotic ecosystems and technologies, supply chains, production and manufacturing, talent development, and commercialization.
Dive into the cosmic intersection of human cognition and machine intelligence as we explore the paradigm-shifting rise of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and its potential evolution into Artificial Superintelligence (ASI). Using astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson’s hypothesis of an alien encounter, we unpack the profound cognitive chasm between beings. How does a Bonobo’s linguistic prowess compare to a human intellectual titan? And as we’ve witnessed the evolution of ChatGPT from its first iteration to ChatGPT-4, are we brushing the fringes of true AGI? Philosophers like Bostrom speculate on a potential “intelligence explosion” when AI begins to improve itself. As we stand at the dawn of a new era, where machines might eclipse human intellect, we ponder our place in the vast intelligence tapestry. Beyond the philosophical, the practical implications are vast: from power dynamics to potential harm if AI goals misalign with ours. Yet, amidst these uncertainties, there’s optimism. This journey offers a profound insight into the most consequential technological evolution in our history and the pivotal choices we must make.
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Organoid intelligence is an emerging field in computing and artificial intelligence.
Earlier this year, an Australian startup Cortical Labs developed a cybernetic system made from human brain cells. They called it DishBrain and taught it to play Pong.
The roots of this exciting technology go back 60 years. But while it’s still novel today, it’s already superior to conventional deep-learning AI in several aspects. However, it also poses new ethical and existential risks to humanity.
Watch the video to explore how Organoid Intelligence might evolve over the next few decades and how it could fit into our lives.
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By Charlie Wood
Quantum computing is still really, really hard. But the rise of a powerful class of error-correcting codes suggests that the task might be slightly more feasible than many feared.
Neutrinos are tiny and neutrally charged particles accounted for by the Standard Model of particle physics. While they are estimated to be some of the most abundant particles in the universe, observing them has so far proved to be highly challenging, as the probability that they will interact with other matter is low.
To detect these particles, physicists have been using detectors and advanced equipment to examine known sources of neutrinos. Their efforts ultimately led to the observation of neutrinos originating from the sun, cosmic rays, supernovae and other cosmic objects, as well as particle accelerators and nuclear reactors.
A long-standing goal in this field of study was to observe neutrinos inside colliders, particle accelerators in which two beams of particles collide with each other. Two large research collaborations, namely FASER (Forward Search Experiment) and SND (Scattering and Neutrino Detector)@LHC, have observed these collider neutrinos for the very first time, using detectors located at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland. The results of their two studies were recently published in Physical Review Letters.