AI is used by the robotic solution to swiftly adapt to all types of blades used in the sector.
Danish energy solutions provider Vestas has unveiled BladeRobots as a stand-alone business with an automated robotic technology solution for the maintenance of wind turbines.
The robot performs automated blade-leading edge maintenance up to “four times faster” than traditional manual methods, according to a press release by the company published on Wednesday.
At number 15 on IE’s 22 best innovations of 2022, we take a look back at Qatar’s Stadium 974.
Qatar has built or refurbished eight stadiums for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, and they have all been equipped with technology to keep players and fans cool in the Qatari heat.
Stadium 974 was built in Qatar and is named after the nation’s dialing code and the number of ocean shipping containers that were utilized in its construction.
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One of the eight stadiums that is sure to blow our minds is Stadium 974, designed and built with the intention of removal after the event. This radical idea stemmed from Fenwick Iribarren Architects, in association with Schlaich Bergermann Partners and Hilson Moran.
So far the mission has produced information on Io, Ganymede and Europa.
NASA’s Juno mission already brought us much data on the moons Ganymede and Europa. Now, according to a press release by the agency published on Wednesday, the spacecraft is exploring one more of Jupiter’s moons: Io. Io is notably the most volcanic place in the solar system.
Going beyond studying a planet.
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The mission obtained images of the Jovian moon Io on Thursday as part of its ongoing exploration of Jupiter’s many distinct moons. However, this data has yet to be publicly released.
This does not bode well for eco-friendly renewables.
Last month, Europe supported a call by India to phase down fossil fuel use as part of a COP27 deal. Now, partially due to the Russian-Ukrainian war, it seems to be changing its mind.
These projects amount to total investments of more than NOK 200 billion (around $20.
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Norway’s oil and gas company Aker BP and its partners announced on Friday that it has submitted a plan for installation and operation and ten plans for the development and operation of oil and gas projects to the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy (MPE), according to a press release by the firm.
U.S. Department of Energy.
The U.S. Department of Energy said on December 13, 2022, that for the first time – and after several decades of trying – scientists have managed to get more energy out of the process than they had to put in.
After all, the AI chatbot seems to be slaying a great deal of search engine responses.
ChatGPT is the latest and most impressive artificially intelligent chatbot yet. It was released two weeks ago, and in just five days hit a million users. It’s being used so much that its servers have reached capacity several times.
But what if we never know the secret sauce behind ChatGPT’s capabilities?
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OpenAI, the company that developed it, is already being discussed as a potential Google slayer. Why look up something on a search engine when ChatGPT can write a whole paragraph explaining the answer? (There’s even a Chrome extension that lets you do both, side by side.)
Building a wind power operation that can thrive in icy conditions requires a keen understanding of the underlying physics.
Winter is supposed to be the best season for wind power — the winds are more potent, and since air density increases as the temperature drops, more force is pushing on the blades. But winter also comes with a problem: freezing weather.
Frequent severe icing can cut a wind farm’s annual energy production by over 20 percent, costing the industry hundreds of millions.
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Even light icing can produce enough surface roughness on wind turbine blades to reduce their aerodynamic efficiency, which reduces the amount of power they can produce, as Texas experienced in February.
Carmack, known for his work in VR and on classic games like Doom and Quake, is stepping down from his consulting CTO role at Meta.
John Carmack, a titan of the technology industry known for his work on virtual reality as well as classic games like Doom.
Carmack originally joined Oculus as CTO in 2013, after helping to promote the original Oculus Rift prototypes that he received from Palmer Luckey, and got pulled into Meta when the company (then Facebook) acquired Oculus in 2014.
“We built something pretty close to the right thing,” Carmack wrote about the Quest 2. He also said that he “wearied of the fight” with Meta, which is burning billions in its Reality Labs division to build things like VR headsets and software for its vision of the metaverse. Carmack would also write internal posts criticizing CEO Mark Zuckerberg and CTO Andrew Bosworth’s decision making while at Meta, The New York Times reported.
Bosworth, in a tweet thanking Carmack on Friday evening, said that it is “impossible to overstate the impact you’ve had on our work and the industry as a whole. Your technical prowess is widely known, but it is your relentless focus on creating value for people that we will remember most.”
This isn’t not the first time Carmack has been unhappy with Meta’s priorities for VR. The company also killed off his mobile efforts with the Samsung Gear VR — “we missed an opportunity,” he said at the time — and the low-cost Oculus Go, both of which were his projects.
It’s been two years since Uber called it quits trying to make its own driverless cars, but the ride-hauling giant is now speeding to market with a distributed fleet of delivery robots and autonomous vehicles thanks to a recent flurry of partnerships.
Those attending the world’s largest technology show, CES, might have a chance to ride in an all-electric self-driving Uber from Motional, a Hyundai-backed startup based out of Boston. The companies just announced a 10-year agreement to bring millions of autonomous rides across the Uber network. Following deployment in Las Vegas, a broader rollout is being planned for Los Angeles. Motional’s Hyundai IONIQ 5 robotaxis have been making Uber Eats deliveries in Santa Monica since May as part of a pilot.
In Miami, Uber Eats is rolling out sidewalk delivery robots with Cartken’s AI-powered carriers. The robotics company founded by ex-Google engineers currently operates across college campuses with food delivery services like GrubHub. The Uber Eats partnership will be its first beyond college campuses.
Metaverse was a huge, company destroyin, blunder. Smart move this decade is Drop Everything else and chase Agi.
VR pioneer John Carmack is leaving Meta for good. With his departure, the industry loses a visionary and an important voice.
Carmack published his farewell letter on Facebook after parts of the email were leaked to the press.
In the message to employees, Carmack, as usual, doesn’t mince words. He cites a lack of efficiency and his powerlessness to change anything about this circumstance as reasons.
