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Volkswagen progressing with work on quantum computing, develops traffic management system for taxi companies

Green Car Congress

Volkswagen sees considerable potential in using this cutting-edge computing technology for building new applications and business models within the company. In the field of quantum computing, the Volkswagen Group is cooperating with technology partners D-Wave and Google, who provide the Volkswagen experts with access to their systems.

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What Robotics Experts Think of Tesla’s Optimus Robot

Cars That Think

In the brief demo, they showed it had a reasonably high loading capacity (holding plant-watering water cans, and lifting bars of aluminum in the factory). Roboticist, Google Brain. The prototype they have created will serve as an excellent beginning platform for them to learn from and to build upon. BACK TO TOP ↑ ].

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Are You Still Using Real Data to Train Your AI?

Cars That Think

There are attempts to make the physics of games somewhat realistic: When you blow up a wall or a building, it crumbles. OK, so that’s what you’re trying to build with Omniverse. I noticed it when we did a demo for [the conference] SIGGRAPH 2017. Surely Google would have all the image data you need to train such an AI.

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Hands-on with the ChatGPT-enabled VW ID.4, with big 2024 model year changes

Baua Electric

I do tend to prefer a more punchy power delivery, and really dislike when automakers build a delay into throttle response, but the ID.4 And most automakers seemed to have given up on making usable infotainment systems, instead ceding that work to Apple or Google with CarPlay and Android Auto.

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From Home Brew to Hasbro

Cars That Think

I started indulging in my hobby of building robots, and subsequently met up with other like-minded people at the Silicon Valley Home Brew Robotics Club. You’re going to destroy your house if you build it with that stuff!” Bob and I wondered if we could build something similar. Balancing Android robots built for Google.

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Europe Expands Virtual Borders To Thwart Migrants

Cars That Think

In 2015, under pressure to address migration from Syria’s civil war, European leaders failed to build a working redistribution of asylum seekers, but they did set in motion a legal framework for a newly empowered European border agency. Meanwhile, the European Union spends at least €2 billion (US $2.13 For example, one E.U.-funded

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EAA National Board nominations from across North America

Electric Auto Association

Studying "smart grids" with emphasis on co-joining BEVs with houses and commercial buildings. For the past six years, he’s been building a sustainability consulting practice working with mainly residential clients and a few commercial clients to identify sustainability opportunities and put together a plan to adopt them.