Cars That Think
APRIL 17, 2024
Boston Dynamics has just introduced a new Atlas humanoid robot , replacing the legendary hydraulic Atlas and intended to be a commercial product. We talked with Playter about what the heck took Boston Dynamics so long to make this robot, what the vision is for Atlas as a product, all that extreme flexibility, and what comes next.
Cars That Think
MARCH 1, 2024
NSF-supported researchers from New York University, using first-person video from a head-mounted camera, trained AI models to learn language through the eyes and ears of a child. [ Boston Dynamics ] Modular self-reconfigurable robotic systems are more adaptive than conventional systems.
Cars That Think
MAY 6, 2023
When the photo was reprinted in Eliza Strickland’s October 2021 article “The Turbulent Past and Uncertain Future of Artificial Intelligence,” in IEEE Spectrum , the caption identified six people, plus one “unknown.” So who was this unknown person? The Minsky Family Between Solomonoff and Shannon is the unknown person.
Cars That Think
JULY 22, 2023
In the United States, eighth graders scored an average of 271 out of 500 in math on last year’s National Assessment of Educational Progress , as highlighted in a New York Times article. She has first-hand experience in education: She taught math and physics in Boston-area high schools. It’s the lowest level in decades.
Cars That Think
DECEMBER 26, 2022
Koopman led a landmark 17-person trial that tested whether modulating the nervous system’s electrical-signaling patterns could tamp down inflammation and joint pain in RA. The 250-person Reset-RA study, in which half the participants receive no stimulation for the first 12 weeks after implantation, is now evaluating efficacy.
Clean Fleet Report
MARCH 31, 2023
We’ve Entered the Age of Shared Mobility This article may contain affiliate links Car sharing has changed dramatically since C lean Fleet Report first reported on it almost two decades ago. Uber’s value proposition is that it is cheaper than using a taxi and much cheaper than using a personal car. In the U.S.
Cars That Think
JULY 30, 2023
Those talks in turn led to a collaboration and an invention: the Boston Arm, an early myoelectric prosthesis. What was the Boston Arm? Discussions between cyberneticist Norbert Wiener [left] and surgeon Melvin Glimcher [right] inspired the Boston Arm. Wiener suggested that Amar G.
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