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Sep 8, 2022

New AI enables autonomous vehicles to adapt to challenging weather conditions

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

Researchers at Oxford University’s Department of Computer Science, in collaboration with colleagues from Bogazici University, Turkey, have developed a novel artificial intelligence (AI) system to enable autonomous vehicles (AVs) achieve safer and more reliable navigation capability, especially under adverse weather conditions and GPS-denied driving scenarios. The results have been published today in Nature Machine Intelligence.

Yasin Almalioglu, who completed the research as part of his DPhil in the Department of Computer Science, said, “The difficulty for AVs to achieve precise positioning during challenging is a major reason why these have been limited to relatively small-scale trials up to now. For instance, weather such as rain or snow may cause an AV to detect itself in the wrong lane before a turn, or to stop too late at an intersection because of imprecise positioning.”

To overcome this problem, Almalioglu and his colleagues developed a novel, self-supervised for ego-motion estimation, a crucial component of an AV’s driving system that estimates the car’s moving position relative to objects observed from the car itself. The model brought together richly-detailed information from visual sensors (which can be disrupted by adverse conditions) with data from weather-immune sources (such as radar), so that the benefits of each can be used under different weather conditions.

Sep 8, 2022

WRC 2022 — China’s largest robot exhibition | Robots and technologies at the exhibition in China

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, cyborgs, Elon Musk, robotics/AI, transhumanism

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The World Robot Conference 2022 was held in Beijing. Due to the ongoing offline pandemic, only Chinese robotics companies were represented, and the rest of the world joined in the online format. But the Chinese booths were also, as always, a lot to see. We gathered for you all the most interesting things from the largest robot exhibition in one video!

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Sep 8, 2022

Frustrated With Neuralink’s Slow Progress, Elon Musk Approaches Competitor

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, computing, Elon Musk, neuroscience

Neuralink cofounder and Tesla CEO Elon Musk allegedly approached Synchron, a company that manufactures chips that can be implanted in patient’s brains.

Sep 8, 2022

Departed Neuralink Co-Founder Locks Down $47 Million for Secretive Neuroscience Startup

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, Elon Musk, neuroscience

When Neuralink co-founder Max Hodak announced his enigmatic departure from the company earlier this year, it was unclear whether he quit due to disagreements with fellow co-founder Elon Musk or if he was fired for moving too slow on clinical trials.

Now, Futurism has learned, Hodak is working on what appears to be a well-funded new brain interface venture called Science Corp. According to an SEC filing from July, Hodak has already raised more than $47 million from 14 investors for the new company — not quite as much as Neuralink’s $363 million to date, but a rousing start that could signal growing competition in the nascent neurotech market.

Moreover, Hodak appears to be taking some talent from Neuralink with him. Alan Mardinly, Neuralink’s longtime director of biology, recently changed his LinkedIn account to say that he has been working at a “stealth startup” since July 2021 and left his position at Neuralink in August 2021 — and posted a link to Science Corp’s hiring page along with an exhortation to “join early,” strongly suggesting that he’s on board the venture.

Sep 8, 2022

Editing brain activity with holography

Posted by in category: neuroscience

Device projects holographic images into brain to activate dozens of neurons at once, simulating real patterns of activity that fool the brain into perceiving things that aren’t there.

Sep 8, 2022

Bringing woolly mammoths back from extinction might not be such a bad idea — ethicists explain

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, existential risks

An excellent article rebutting some of common negative reactions to the idea of de-extinction. I applaud George Church, Ben Lamm, and colleagues for their efforts to leverage the genomics revolution to recreate the wooly mammoth and the Thylacine. These represent exciting steps for repairing damaged ecosystems. Such approaches will also most likely have the side benefit of generating new technologies for biomedical applications. I’d love to see similar de-extinction efforts addressing loss of insect and microorganism biodiversity as well! #biotech #future #crispr #techforgood


When mammoths disappeared from the Arctic some 4,000 years ago, shrubs overtook what was previously grassland. Mammoth-like creatures could help restore this ecosystem by trampling shrubs, knocking over trees, and fertilising grasses with their faeces.

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Sep 8, 2022

The Super-Rich Are Buying Post-Apocalyptic Bunkers

Posted by in category: futurism

Super rich “preppers” are getting ready to survive the apocalypse in fancy, well-equipped bunkers specifically designed for that purpose.

Sep 8, 2022

Here’s why poisonous animals don’t poison themselves

Posted by in category: futurism

Toxic birds and frogs have evolved a way to avoid harm—but not in the way we thought.

Sep 8, 2022

3D-printed Martian rock and titanium alloy could be used on Mars to make rocket parts

Posted by in categories: 3D printing, space

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Pretty interesting, right? But it could be possible one day with 3D printing technology.

Sep 8, 2022

A newly discovered planet 40% larger than Earth may be suitable for life

Posted by in category: alien life

It’s one of two new planets that were recently found about 100 light years from Earth, both of which take just days to orbit their own sun.