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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. 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. BACK TO TOP ↑ ]. Kate Darling.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

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Best known as a robotics researcher, academic, and entrepreneur, Brooks is also an authority on AI: he directed the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT until 2007, and held faculty positions at Carnegie Mellon and Stanford before that. So it’s a lot better than just a 10-word Google search. Or 60,000 tokens.

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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 BMW , Google , Samsung , and Volvo have all said they will not buy metals mined from such sources until the environmental impacts are better understood.

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