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Jan 18, 2022

Asia’s Richest Man Buys Robotics Startup to Fuel Tech Ambitions

Posted by in categories: business, robotics/AI

Billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries Ltd. is buying an Indian robotics startup as the conglomerate scales up automation across its businesses, from e-commerce to new energy.

Jan 18, 2022

Subaru’s New 1,073 HP Electric Race Car Aims to Break Records

Posted by in categories: sustainability, transportation

The E-RA comes with a 60kWh battery meaning it likely won’t come with a world-beating range. However, Subaru hopes its new all-wheel-drive machine can excel on the race track. The car features GT-style, high-downforce composite bodywork with cutouts in the body to redirect air away from the wheel wells.

The Japanese automaker aims to set a record-breaking Nürburgring lap time of 6 minutes and 40 seconds by 2023. That would put it ahead of Tesla’s Model S Plaid, which completed the Nürburgring course in 7 minutes and 35 seconds. Before going to Nürburgring, Subaru will test the E-RA at Japanese racing circuits later this year.

Subaru also revealed the Solterra STI Concept on the show floor, a sportier version of its new Solterra all-electric SUV, which was revealed in November last year. Though Subaru didn’t reveal much in the way of specifications, the new Solterra concept features a roof spoiler, under spoilers, and “other special parts on the exterior,” the company says.

Jan 18, 2022

Predjama: The world’s largest cave castle

Posted by in category: futurism

Predjama is one of the most extraordinary castles in the world, built in the mouth of a cave complex at the end of a valley in southwest Slovenia.

Set halfway up a 400-foot (123-meter) vertical cliff face, it appears in records from 1,202 and is listed by Guinness World Records as the world’s largest cave castle.

With a Renaissance facade dating back to the 1580s, the word “majestic” doesn’t even begin to describe it. Yet for tour guide and historian Vojko Jurca, one of the highlights is, on first appearances, a little underwhelming.

Jan 18, 2022

We Finally Know The True Extent of Space Destroying Astronauts’ Red Blood Cells

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

The human body did not evolve to handle life in space, and it shows in our very blood.

Since our species first started to spend extended periods of time beyond our planet, researchers have noticed a curious and consistent loss of red blood cells among astronauts.

The phenomenon is called ‘space anemia’, and until recently, its cause was a mystery. Some experts have argued space anemia is only a short-term phenomenon – a brief compensation for the fluid changes in our bodies under microgravity.

Jan 18, 2022

DNA sequencing solves mystery of earliest hybrid animal’s identity

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical

Bronze Age bioengineers created the earliest hybrid animal — a majestic horselike creature known as a kunga that had a donkey mom, a Syrian wild ass for a father and lived 4,500 years ago, according to new research based on the sequencing of DNA from the animal’s skeleton.

Descriptions and imagery in Mesopotamian art and texts portray a powerful animal that pulled war wagons into battle and royal vehicles in parades. Its true identity, however, had long puzzled and divided archaeologists. Domesticated horses didn’t arrive in the region, sometimes referred to as the Fertile Crescent, until 4,000 years ago.

Jan 18, 2022

MIT 6.S094: Convolutional Neural Networks for End-to-End Learning of the Driving Task

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

This is lecture 3 of course 6.S094: Deep Learning for Self-Driving Cars taught in Winter 2017. This lecture introduces computer vision, convolutional neural networks, and end-to-end learning of the driving task.

INFO:
Slides: http://bit.ly/2HdXYvf.
Website: https://deeplearning.mit.edu.
GitHub: https://github.com/lexfridman/mit-deep-learning.
Playlist: https://goo.gl/SLCb1y.

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Jan 18, 2022

How convolutional neural networks work, in depth

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Part of the End-to-End Machine Learning School Course 193, How Neural Networks Work at https://e2eml.school/193

Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1R-DnrghbU36jO8X4scbr…sp=sharing.
machine learning blog: https://brohrer.github.io/blog.html

Jan 18, 2022

Researchers develop AI system capable accelerating learning and yielding process

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

SEOUL — Using a high-performance artificial intelligence (AI) chip, South Korean researchers have established a system that can accelerate the process of learning data and yielding results. The system capable of performing five thousand trillion operations per second is ideal for autonomous vehicles and AI servers because its chipset is about the size of a coin.

Jan 18, 2022

Japan starts reusable rocket project in response to Elon Musk SpaceX

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, space travel

Japan’s national space agency will collaborate with 30 Japanese companies to create reusable rockets. The goal is to reduce launch costs to less than a fourth of present levels.

Jan 18, 2022

Tactic Air Drone launches its high-performance foldable drone

Posted by in category: drones

The 4K HD Drone is perfect for beginners and seasoned drone enthusiasts alike.