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Boston Dynamics’ AI-powered humanoid robot is learning to work in a factory

For decades, engineers have been trying to create robots that look and act human. Now, rapid advances in artificial intelligence are taking humanoids from the lab to the factory floor. As fears grow that AI will displace workers, a global race is underway to develop human-like robots able to do human jobs. Competitors include Tesla, startups backed by Amazon and Nvidia, and state-supported Chinese companies. Boston Dynamics is a frontrunner. The Massachusetts company, valued at more than a billion dollars, is hard at work on a humanoid it calls Atlas. South Korean carmaker Hyundai holds an 90% stake in the robot maker. As we first told you in January, we were invited to see the first real-world test of Atlas at Hyundai’s new factory near Savannah, Georgia. There, we got a glimpse of a humanoid future that’s coming faster than you might think.

Hyundai’s sprawling auto plant is about as cutting-edge as it gets. More than 1,000 robots work alongside almost 1,500 humans, hoisting, stamping and welding in robotic unison. This may look like the factory of the future, but we found the future of the future in the parts warehouse, tucked away in the back corner, getting ready for work.

Meet Atlas: A 5’9, 200 pound, AI-powered humanoid created by Boston Dynamics. The rise of the robots is science fiction no more.

Dell CEO Michael Dell makes one of largest public university donations in US history, ‘gifts’ $750 million to the University of …

Dell CEO Michael Dell has donated $750 million to the University of Texas at Austin, marking one of the largest donations ever made to a public university in the United States. The gift will help fund a new healthcare and research campus, including what the university describes as the country’s first artificial intelligence-native hospital.

The Future of Neuroscience Is Growing and Reviving Human Brains

Further Reading.
Thumbnail image credit: Not alive, but not dead… FEATURED SCIENCE ARTICLE.
Brain background: Nexorg.
Brain organoid images: Elke Gabriel.

Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing.
https://www.science.org/content/artic…
Restoration of brain circulation and cellular functions hours.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30996…

Vascularizing organoids-on-chip for perfused and personalized models.
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/artic…

Startup Testing Drugs on Freshly Extracted Human Brains That Are Kept On Life Support.
https://futurism.com/health-medicine/.…

Cerebral organoids transplantation repairs infarcted cortex and restores impaired function after stroke https://www.nature.com/articles/s4153…

World First: Patient Receives High-Risk Therapy to Make Cells Young Again

An eagerly awaited and controversial clinical trial to ‘wind back the clock’ on aging cells in the eye and restore them to a more youthful state has officially begun.

This week, the United States biotechnology company Life Biosciences, Inc. announced that it had dosed its first patient with an experimental therapy designed to reverse age-related vision loss.

The ambitious idea is to turn back aging by activating three genes in retinal ganglion cells, which connect the brain to the eyes.

Microsoft Announces 1000x Better Quantum Chip

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Microsoft just announced the Majorana 2 — a topological quantum chip with qubits 1,000 times more reliable than its predecessor. I got exclusive access to Microsoft’s quantum lab in Copenhagen and sat down with Chetan Nayak (Director of Quantum Hardware at Microsoft) to find out what actually changed, whether the results hold up, and what this means for the timeline to a useful quantum computer.

0:00 — Microsoft Announce Majorana 2
1:07 — How Quantum Computers Actually Work.
3:12 — The Case for Topological Qubits.
4:10 — How to Build a Topological Qubit.
8:06 — Ad break.
9:45 — What Changed in Majorana 2
13:05 — Why Lead Beats Aluminium.
14:33 — When Are We Getting a Quantum Computer?

Microsoft Announcement: https://quantum.microsoft.com/en-us/i… Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.03884 A note Microsoft shared with me on the retracted 2018 paper: “In 2018, an independent university research paper that drew funding from several sources including Microsoft, was retracted by Nature. The research was not conducted by Dr. Chetan Nayak or any members of the Microsoft team leading the work on the Majorana 1.” My Patreon:🚀 / drbenmiles My Instagram: / drbenmiles My TikTok: / drbenmiles My Newsletter: https://drbenmiles.substack.com/ My Merch: https://www.rockstarscientist.org/ 🔗 Linktree: https://linktr.ee/drbenmiles MY GEAR 📷 Sony A7III https://amzn.to/3OWrmGd 🔎 Sigma 402,965 16 mm F1.4 https://amzn.to/49BNJdq 🎤 Shure SM7B https://amzn.to/4sF3ngx 🎤 Zoom H4n Pro https://amzn.to/3OXsklB 🎤 Sennheiser AVX https://amzn.to/4geWnBi.
arXiv Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.

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