Google has been worrying about losing search share to AI engines like ChatGPT for a couple of years.
A human clearing junk out of an attic can often guess the contents of a box simply by picking it up and giving it a shake, without the need to see what’s inside. Researchers from MIT, Amazon Robotics, and the University of British Columbia have taught robots to do something similar.
They developed a technique that enables robots to use only internal sensors to learn about an object’s weight, softness, or contents by picking it up and gently shaking it. With their method, which does not require external measurement tools or cameras, the robot can accurately guess parameters like an object’s mass in a matter of seconds.
This low-cost technique could be especially useful in applications where cameras might be less effective, such as sorting objects in a dark basement or clearing rubble inside a building that partially collapsed after an earthquake.
Aerospace Perspectives Series: Shaping the Future of Aviation with GPU-Powered CFD for Faster, Cleaner Aircraft Design
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Flexcompute’s Flow360, the most trusted GPU-native CFD solution for advanced aviation, accelerates the aerospace design process by optimizing evaluations, enhancing aerodatabase development, and reducing time-to-market while ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements. In collaboration with OEMs, companies like JetZero are using Flow360 to push the boundaries of efficiency and sustainability, advancing revolutionary designs such as blended-wing-body (BWB) aircraft, hydrogen-powered, and advanced propulsion models. This strategic partnership is crucial to transforming air travel and achieving global sustainability goals, accelerating the next era of aviation innovation.
In this webinar, hear from Qiqi Wang on the latest advancements in high-fidelity CFD, joined by John Vassberg, Chief Design Officer at JetZero, as they explore the cutting-edge technologies driving the future of aviation. They will discuss how GPU-powered CFD is enabling faster, more sustainable aircraft design and how strategic collaboration is key to realizing the industry’s ambitious goals.
A team of researchers at Nagoya University has discovered something surprising. If you have two tiny vibrating elements, each one barely moving on its own, and you combine them in the right way, their combined vibration can be amplified dramatically—up to 100 million times.
The paper is published in the Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science.
Their findings suggest that by relying on structural amplification rather than power, even small, simple devices can transmit long-distance clear signals, potentially innovating long-distance communications and remote medical devices.
Single-cell transcriptomics identifies type I and II interferons as regulators of cortical and medullary thymic epithelial differentiation.
“56,000 Homes Become a Power Plant”: California Firm Creates Largest Virtual Energy Source in US With Revolutionary Grid-Sharing Tech
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IN A NUTSHELL 🌞 Sunrun has created the largest virtual power plant in the U.S. by linking 75,000 home batteries. 🌿 The CalReady system provides 375 megawatts of backup power, energizing 280,000 homes, equivalent to all of Ventura County. 💡 This innovative approach helps reduce energy costs and carbon emissions by using 100% solar energy.
A recent study published in Nature Astronomy has revealed that the dwarf galaxies orbiting around Andromeda, our neighboring galaxy, are distributed in such an uneven way that it calls into question the most widely accepted cosmological theories. According to the researchers, this asymmetric arrangement is so extreme that it is almost impossible to explain with current models of the universe.
Andromeda, also known as M31, is the spiral galaxy closest to the Milky Way and, like our galaxy, is surrounded by a group of smaller dwarf galaxies that orbit around it. What has surprised scientists is that these dwarf galaxies are not evenly distributed.
Of the 37 observed dwarf galaxies, all but one are located on one side of Andromeda—specifically, the side facing the Milky Way. This uneven arrangement is as if, when throwing a handful of stones around a tree, almost all of them landed on just one side.
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Cities of the Future.
Episode 498; May 8, 2025
Written, Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur.
Edited by: Briana Brownell & Thomas Owens.
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