{"id":94334,"date":"2019-08-01T10:02:29","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T17:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/this-autonomous-bicycle-shows-chinas-rising-expertise-in-ai-chips"},"modified":"2019-08-01T10:02:29","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T17:02:29","slug":"this-autonomous-bicycle-shows-chinas-rising-expertise-in-ai-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/this-autonomous-bicycle-shows-chinas-rising-expertise-in-ai-chips","title":{"rendered":"This autonomous bicycle shows China\u2019s rising expertise in AI chips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-autonomous-bicycle-shows-chinas-rising-expertise-in-ai-chips.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It might not look like much, but this wobbly self-driving bicycle is a symbol of growing Chinese expertise in advanced chip design.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Look, no hands:<\/strong> The bike not only balances itself but steers itself around obstacles and even responds to simple voice commands. But it\u2019s the brains behind the bike that matter. It uses a new kind of computer chip, called Tianjic, that was developed by <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbicr.tsinghua.edu.cn\/shi-luping\/\">Luping Shi<\/a> and colleagues at Tsinghua University, a top academic institution in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Two in one: <\/strong>The Tianjic chip features a hybrid design that seeks to bring together two different architectural approaches to computing: a conventional, von Neumann design and a neurologically inspired one. The two architectures are used in cooperation to run artificial neural networks for obstacle detection, motor and balance control, and voice recognition, as well as conventional software.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It might not look like much, but this wobbly self-driving bicycle is a symbol of growing Chinese expertise in advanced chip design. Look, no hands: The bike not only balances itself but steers itself around obstacles and even responds to simple voice commands. But it\u2019s the brains behind the bike that matter. It uses a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}