Cars That Think
JULY 26, 2022
Astonishingly mobile, amazingly efficient, super robust, and in some cases, literally dirt cheap. I’ll let you Google whip scorpion on your own because they kind of freak me out, but here’s a picture of a patu digua, with a body measuring about a quarter of a millimeter: Squee! You know what’s even easier than that, though?
Cars That Think
OCTOBER 4, 2022
What excites me is the idea of cheap and accessible hardware! Assistant Professor, University of Toronto. In short, I’d bet that any decent university or corporate robotics lab with a similar budget and an active PR team would be able to pull this off. Roboticist, Google Brain. BACK TO TOP ↑ ]. Animesh Garg.
Cars That Think
DECEMBER 10, 2022
In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. The thumb drive was all that—and more.
Cars That Think
DECEMBER 26, 2023
In 2022, a schism in the chip design world and at Google erupted into the open. At issue was a reinforcement-learning AI system that Google uses to do a key step in laying out chunks of logic and memory for its AI accelerator chips, or TPUs. Universities Are Building a Semiconductor Workforce Peter Adams With the U.S.
Cars That Think
FEBRUARY 4, 2022
If it were legal to deliver rescued migrants to Libya, it would be as cheap as sending rescue boats a few extra kilometers south instead of east. Dan Fisher of the University of Glasgow, who has published on SIVE. funded research project published the results of using Google search data to predict international migration.
Cars That Think
DECEMBER 29, 2023
This Mirror Reverses How Light Travels in Time Nature Physics In an esoteric bit of research this year, a group of researchers based at universities in New York City discovered how to pass a signal through something called a “time interface”—the result being that the entire signal acted like it was moving back in time.
Green Car Congress
MAY 6, 2019
In their commentary, Andreas Goldthau (Royal Holloway University of London), Kirsten Westphal (German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP)), Morgan Bazilian (Colorado School of Mines) & Michael Bradshaw (University of Warwick) present four geopolitical scenarios to illustrate how varied the transition could be by 2030.
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