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Tesla AI Day 2022: livestream link posted online, Optimus teaser released

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The Texas-based company tweeted a teaser of the Optimus Bot recently, building up anticipation for this year’s AI Day. The teaser Tesla recently posted shows the company’s progress with the design of Optimus’ hands and hints at the design of the entire robot. Our hands’ design allows for a powerful grip.

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Michigan State University Receives $2.5M ARPA-E Award to Build Wave Disc Engine/Generator for Series Hybrid Applications

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The award will allow a team of MSU engineers and scientists, led by Norbert Müller, an associate professor of mechanical engineering, to begin working toward producing a vehicle-size wave disc engine/generator during the next two years, building on existing modeling, analysis and lab experimentation they have already completed. Hîrceagã, M.,

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Q&A With Co-Creator of the 6502 Processor

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The processors and their variants are used as microcontrollers in commercial products, and they remain popular among hobbyists who build home-brewed computers. That's where we created the 6501 and 6502 [in 1975], and I designed the input/output chips that went with it. What drove those design decisions? And lower cost was key.

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Rule of the Robots: Warning Signs

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One of the most notable demonstrations of the technology's weaknesses came when a group of researchers at Vicarious, small company focused on building dexterous robots, performed an analysis of the neural network used in Deep-Mind's DQN, the system that had learned to dominate Atari video games.

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Devil In The Details: Is Copenhagens 2 ºC Guardrail Obsolete?

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A BBC article [ 9 ] upped the stakes on Thursday the 9 th with an article on carbon emissions that characterized “the lower target of 1.5 In storm preparedness, for example, New York City’s building codes and flood risk maps are based on historical and existing risks rather than projected future risks. BBC: 15 December 2009. [

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Practical Power Beaming Gets Real

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To underscore how safe the system was, the host of the BBC science program “ Bang Goes the Theory ” stuck his face fully into a power beam. Any system designed for optical power transmission would likely use a laser—one with a tightly confined beam, such as a fiber laser. This word, a portmanteau of. Lighthouse Dev in 2012.

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We visited the OLA Future Factory: Electric Scooter Manufacturing

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I met with Preeti Gupta, a freelancer with the BBC. What the likes of GM would take 2 years to build, Ola did in eight months. Ola could have outsourced chassis welding, but they believe that the scooter build quality will depend on their welding capabilities. I liked the design of the conveyor.

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