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What Robotics Experts Think of Tesla’s Optimus Robot

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What excites me is the idea of cheap and accessible hardware! Research Specialist, MIT Media Lab. 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.

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IEEE Spectrum’s Top Telecom Stories of 2023

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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.

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The Turbulent Past and Uncertain Future of Artificial Intelligence

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Cornell University Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections. In 1967, MIT professor. The Minsky Family; Carnegie Mellon University (2). Geoffrey Hinton , at the University of Toronto, applied a principle called back-propagation to make neural nets learn from their mistakes (see " How Deep Learning Works ").

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Could Sucking Up the Seafloor Solve Battery Shortage?

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Texas is top of The Metals Company's list for the processing plant given the state's ports and access to cheap renewables. "We Craig Smith , an oceanography professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa , who has led seven research expeditions to the CCZ. But while they might have low biomass, they also have astounding biodiversity.

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